Sentences with phrase «animals like whales»

«They're a key species for the Arctic food system because they're feeding on very small particles and on phytoplankton, and they're getting quite big and really big animals like whales and birds and fish can feed on them,» he explained.

As we ferry you to the Channel Islands National Park aboard the spacious 53 foot boat equipped with a restroom & lounge galley, you may encounter animals like whales, dolphins, seals, and many types of sea birds.

Here, year - round recreation, beautiful vistas and plenty of ocean animals like whales and seals can be seen.

They're plentiful in the ocean, with an estimated biomass of 379 - million tons (a biomass significantly larger than humans» estimated 100 - million tons), and they're a popular meal item for sea animals like whales, birds and other fish, placing them solidly at the bottom of the ocean's food chain.

«Social media provides a great source of science for charismatic animals like whale sharks and we hope to encourage more engagement across the Indian Ocean.»

«The visual presence of some animal like a whale is not all that will be missed when it is gone.

Not exact matches

It's not at all unusual for animals to try and protect their own species, but nearly 90 percent of humpback whale rescue missions involve smaller animals like seals, sea lions and small whales.

Our species is like the other higher animals, apes and whales especially, except for this linguistic capacity and the ability to use symbols to a degree vastly beyond the capacity of other planetary animals.

As soon as an animal becomes of no more use to humans, as for example when the products now used from whales are superseded by synthetics, then there are no arguments left for the preservation of whales except that we like looking at them.

Over the last 250 million years land animals have repeatedly begun exploiting the seas, giving rise to creatures like whales and walruses.

The Bloop sounds like it might have been created by an animal, but it is far louder than any whale song, so a marine creature that made it would either be bigger than any whale, or a much more efficient producer of sound.

The animal's lower jaw, which hangs under the ridge like an evolutionary afterthought, is even narrower — a flimsy structure only about three feet across at its widest point on a fully grown whale and studded with four - inch teeth.

Smaller animals can be taken back to the lab, but whales — like a huge blue whale that washed up dead in 2007 — have to be processed on - site.

A group of researchers says that the closest known evolutionary cousin of whales, dolphins and porpoises is not the hippopotamus, as conventional wisdom has it, but an extinct deer - like animal roughly the size of a fox or raccoon.

«What we think happened is that the ancestors of both Indohyus and whales were animals that looked like a tiny deer,» says Hans Thewissen, professor of anatomy at Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy, who led the study, published in Nature.

He said animals that can migrate — like whales and birds — are more likely to adapt, while species bound to a particular environment, or food source, will face greater challenges.

Hitch - hiking like this on sharks and whales could offer an improved way of tracking and tagging these animals.

But, like the missing oil, the effects of the blowout on deep - sea life — whether sperm whales or sea cucumbers — may be hard to find given the mysteries surrounding the lives of these animals.

Some of them had a puzzling combination of rodent, hippo and whale - like features - Charles Darwin called them the «strangest animals ever discovered».

But here at home, a much smaller organism may be circling the globe time and time again without accolades: According to a new study, the itty bitty dragonfly Pantala flavescens could take longer flights than any other known insect, putting it in the ballpark of larger migratory animals like birds and whales.

All the sea animals (except for the whales) have large, human eyes and are stylized with high - detailed and textured skin - just like Arlo is in this teaser.

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These non-fiction shows apparently now account for 70 % of Amazon's video library — shows like Say Yes to the Dress and Animal Planet's Whale Wars.

For those who want to get even closer to some of the ocean's most interesting creatures, SeaWorld's animal encounters can be a dream come true: Dolphin Interactions allows guests to feed, touch and play with bottlenose dolphins; Beluga Interactions offer a unique chance to enter the water with beluga whales, gentle giants known as «sea canaries» for their bird - like vocalizations.

The whales and dolphins are visible from Moonstone Beach but if you would like to get a little closer, Sea Life Studies Whale Watching Trips take you out into the migratory paths of these magnificent animals to unobtrusively observe them in their natural habitat.

There are many different spots around the country to see whales and you'll probably be able to see other animals like dolphins, manta rays and sea turtles as well.

You will visit Whitehaven Beach, go snorkeling and maybe see some exotic animals like sea eagles, dolphins or whales

From the best sunsets and rare animals like sea eagles and humpback whales.

Here you can play free online Deadly attack at sea world games and find a lot of world, sea, attack, deadly, whale, water, rescue, animal games in different category like games and more.

Alongside historical and metaphorical resonances, materials like transparent animal parchment, lead crystal glass, antique whale tooth and gold wire reveal a form of dormant eroticism and excessive expenditures.

On the environmentalist side, I would urge the whaling nations to act more like hunters, who have always been strong conservationists, and even if they kill animals, have professed a love for animals and spent the money on saving land and species to prove it.

A number of non-human animals, including the great apes, cetaceans (i.e. dolphins and whales), elephants, and parrots, exhibit characteristics and tendencies consistent with that of a person's traits like self - awareness, intentionality, creativity, symbolic communication, and many others.

Plastic trash chokes and kills animals like sea turtles, whales, and sea birds, as animals think that the plastics are food.

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For largely unseen and migratory animals like most whale species, it is extremely difficult to establish any definitive facts and figures.

Directed by Louie Psihoyos, the film is a tense action - film - like documentary on the brutal killing of dolphins in Taiji, Japan, one of many areas of the country where dolphins and whales are killed for their meat, though some of the traumatized animals are hand - chosen to be hauled off to theme parks and swim - with - the - dolphin programs across the globe.

The mix of elements like open rattan display shelves filled with visual delights, quirky animals and whales, antique lighting and chandeliers, some chippy furniture mixed in here and there, chalkboards, and navy walls aren't just things I happen to have, but they are all things I still love.