Sentences with phrase «as whales and dolphins»

Sharks as well as whales and dolphins are often spotted in the water and it's best to adhere to the shark warnings that are posted.

Hairlessness, for instance, is only a feature of fully aquatic mammals such as whales and dolphins.

And I'm not asking for too much here: mammals such as whales and dolphins have an extra hole and therefor, can not choke., our eyes suck.

The Nelson Bay Breeze apartments are close to the beach and the Fly Point Marine Reserve and close to many attractions such as Whale and Dolphin Cruises.

Now a lot of Indonesian liveaboard diving offers tranquil waters and corals but Alor liveaboards have the added bonus that the dive tours often happen to double as a whale and dolphin watching tour.

As a whale and dolphin watchers» paradise, Panama is the ideal host for the 64rd annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission.

Not exact matches

The whales, the dolphins and other apes may think of themselves as much as we think of ourselves.

We have learned so much about the intelligence, cognitive and social, of so many animals — humpback whales, orcas, bottlenose dolphins, elephants, gray parrots, dogs, and so on — all of it quite fascinating, thought - provoking, and in many cases delightful, and it seems a cruel impoverishment of our speculative and moral imaginations to dismiss it all as a process of biomechanical stimulus and response, only accidentally resembling the workings of human consciousness.

There is something for everyone with such activities as jungle canopy zip line tours, ATV trail riding, white water rafting, deep sea fishing, whale watching, swimming with dolphins, birding tours and more.

A group of protesters targeted the Shedd Aquarium today as part of a campaign in about a dozen countries to ask that whales and dolphins in captivity be released.

Mercury — from anthropogenic sources such as power generation — also works its way into whales and dolphins.

Half - brain sleeping has also been documented in marine mammals such as dolphins and whales, he says, so it could be a convergent solution to a similar problem.

The new find helps shed light on the evolution of beaked whales as well as their competition: Soon after M. gregarius swam the region's seas, dolphins appeared on the scene, and their success in shallow coastal waters (where they now dominate), may have driven ziphiids to abandon foraging in surface waters.

«In sperm whales, and likely other whales and dolphins, culture has the potential to affect population biology, and so issues as diverse as genetic evolution and the impacts of global warming on the species.»

Dines et al. show that the reduced pelvic bones of cetaceans (marine mammals such as whales, porpoises and dolphins) may fall into the latter category.

«Since our 2001 review, people have often considered culture as a potential explanation of the behavioural patterns that have turned up in their studies of whales and dolphins.

Many dolphins and whales seem to be able to narrow or widen the beam at will by deforming a lump of fat in their forehead, known as the melon, the way a glass lens can shape a cone of light.

Whales and dolphins could provide a useful model for research into such impacts, largely because their sounds are relatively easy to study: They are among the loudest noises any animal has ever made, reaching as much as 188 decibels in the blue whale.

As you can imagine, in addition to injuring whales and dolphins through hearing loss, it also puts them off their food and has even been linked to strandings.

It also defeated a US bid to remove restrictions on bobcat pelts, as well as Japanese efforts to engineer support for dolphin and whale hunts.

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In recent years killer whales have been observed eating a wide variety of sea mammals, such as dolphins, porpoises, gray whales, and these animals:

* Correction, 8 October, 2:24 p.m.: In the video, Ann Bowles describes the difference between killer whale and bottlenose dolphin whistles, not killer whale and orca whistles, as was previously reported.

(Watch a video as bioacoustician and co-author Ann Bowles describes the difference between killer whale and bottlenose dolphin whistles.)

Then they divided the cetaceans according to their dietary preferences: filter feeders, such as the blue whales, that gulp down huge quantities of krill; cephalopod specialists, such as sperm whales, that dive to great depths to feed on squid; and generalist fish eaters, such as bottlenose dolphins.

While pilot whales make whistles, buzzes and clicks, pods of hunting dolphins create high - pitched echolocation clicks and larger species such as sperm whales make louder, slower clicks.

Apart from bats, dolphins, whales, rats and shrews — which use calls in the audible range — few mammals echolocate as vision is usually more efficient.

Echolocation is a skill that has evolved independently several times in the animal kingdom in response to low visibility conditions — whether at night, as with bats and a few nocturnal birds, or in murky water, as with whales and dolphins, Wiegrebe notes.

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.

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«Many of us who are scientist - advocates for dolphins and whales were surprised to find Dr. Reiss's activities defined as activism,» Marino's published letter reads.

The coast appears complete with whales, dolphins, kelp and jellyfish which still enjoy the freedom of as yet unpolluted waters.

As such, it provides the first real glimpse into what baleen whales were like before they evolved their feeding filters.Measuring about 9 to 11 feet long, the specimen was the size of a bottlenose dolphin, with huge eyes that took up a quarter of its head.Instead of echolocating, it most likely depended on keen underwater vision and sharp hearing to track fish and small sharks, which it would then tear apart and shred with its 1.4 - inch - long serrated teeth.

Not only did the researchers find the fossils among the remains of undeniably aquatic animals — such as fish, sea lions, dolphins, and whales — but also this sloth had the bones of a swimmer.

The diseases are flushed out to the sea in kitty litter and other sewage, harming marine mammals such as dolphins, beluga whales, monk seals and sea otters.

Animal advocates, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), have long pressured SeaWorld to free its whales and dolphins, a group collectively known as cetaceans.

«The future of these dolphins would appear to be as secure as any population of any species can be in this era of climate change,» says the study's lead author, Mike Bossley of Whale and Dolphin Conservation Australasia in Port Adelaide, who has studied the area's dolphins for 25 years.

On 10 April, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) in Tucson, Arizona, joined three other organizations — the Humane Society of the United States, Defenders of Wildlife, and Whale and Dolphin Conservation — to file a federal lawsuit calling for the government to increase the amount of space designated as critical habitat for the whales under the US Endangered Species Act.

The research, published in PLOS ONE, found that polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a chemical once used in industrial equipment, such as electrical components and certain paints, accumulates in the fat tissue of whales, dolphins and porpoises — known collectively as cetaceans — and can remain there throughout their lifetime.

If humans did much of their evolving in this region, in a food - rich sea and its wetlands, it would explain why we have a long list of physical features in common with aquatic mammals, such as whales, dolphins, seals, and walruses.

Indeed, parrots, dolphins, and killer whales could be the next ones to be tested, because other researchers have already taught these species to «do as I do.»

He re-told the familiar tale of the evolution of land animals from ancient fish, and then considered the return of various groups of reptiles, birds and mammals to an aquatic existence: ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, crocodiles, sea - snakes, penguins, whales, dolphins and porpoises, manatees and dugongs, and seals — as well as polar bears, otters and water voles, who hunt in water.

Home to large marine mammals, such as dolphins and whales and an extraordinary diversity of fish, together with exotic sponge and coral ecosystems, seamounts are among the world's greatest marine - biological treasures.

Arguing that cognitively complex animals such as chimpanzees, whales, dolphins and elephants have the capacity for limited personhood rights, Steve and his legal team are making history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform a chimpanzee from a «thing» with no rights to a «person» with legal protections.

It's Got: An opening song - and - dance extravaganza performed by retreating dolphins; the complete destruction of Earth within the first ten minutes; the mindlessly bureaucratic Vogons beautifully rendered by Henson workshop puppetry; underground aliens that give a good slapping to anyone who has an idea; Bill Nighy at his best as Slartibartfast; the entire crew of the Heart of Gold reduced to knitted wool simulacra by the Improbability Drive; Bill Bailey voicing a whale having its first (and last) encounter with the full force of gravity; and, of course, long queues.

Morton weaves together her own exciting fieldwork with scientific discoveries about the huge black - and - white dolphins known as killer whales.

The whale tale forms the center of the story but, for me, it was the bit players that stole the show - the rays wallowing in the warm water under the pier, the sun fish snoozling close to the legs of the oil rig, the green sea turtles «carrying their homes along with them like aquatic RVs» and the herd of dolphins vying with each other to perform the most dare - devilish tricks (I thought the collective noun for dolphins was pod, but Lynne refers to them as a herd, and I'm not the landlubber to question her!)

Some of the large mammals we often see as we kayak Queen Charlotte Strait include humpback whales, Minke whales, Pacific white sided dolphins, Dall's porpoises, sea lions and Orcas.

Pacific white - sided dolphins, Risso's dolphins and northern right whale dolphins have made frequent appearances as well as the elusive harbor porpoises.

With a resident population of bottlenose dolphins, whales in season, spectacular bushwalking and wildflowers and endless water activities such as first - class snorkelling, surfing and endless beaches.