Sentences with phrase «much about these whales»

I learned so much about these whales and dolphins from this drone footage that it feels like I have entered a new dimension!

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Or what about the humpback whale, that although it weighs about 30 tons, as much as a loaded truck, and has a relatively stiff body with large wing - like flippers, that this 40 foot mammal is remarkably agile under water?

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.

My kids loved learning about beluga whales so much that we decided to adopt one after the show.

«Over millions of years the porpoise has evolved its ability to emit very high frequency click sounds that killer whales have difficulty hearing since they can not hear sounds that are much higher than about 100 kHz.

The Northern Indian Ocean and its inhabitants have not been surveyed to the same extent as the eastern Pacific Ocean, and much of the information about whale distributions comes from Soviet whaling several decades ago.

«Our research on whale sharks in the Red Sea clearly shows that much remains to be learned about the species,» said co-author Greg Skomal, a Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries biologist and WHOI adjunct scientist.

The genome data not only can help us know much more about the adaption mechanisms underlying minke whale, but also provides invaluable resource for marine mammal's future studies such as diseases control and prevention, species conservation, and protection.»

On this forum they talk about Inuit people in the past subsisting off of cooked and raw meats, organs, and a ton of fats (think whale blubber) and not much else (no gardens in the extreme North!)

A billion credit cards would weigh as much as 52 blue whales, at about 180 tons per whale, he says.

«If you think about statistical correlation between average life span and body size in mammals it generally tends to be positive - gorillas, elephants and whales are much longer lived than shrews, voles and mice,» says Daniel Promislow, professor of genetics at the University of Georgia.

Although we have learned much about gray whales in the WNP in the past 20 years, particularly on the summer

Much of what is known about the orca whale's highly - organized social life has been learned from the resident pods you can watch from kayaks in the San Juan Islands of Washington.

If you know that a blue whale can weigh as much as thirty - two elephants or that a toddler could crawl through the arteries of any full - grown great whale or that a humpback's flipper is more than twice the height of the tallest person you know, then your sense of excitement about even a distant sighting will increase.

We have tales of filming sharks and humpback whales underwater, interesting facts for women divers, all you ever needed to know about seahorses, a trip report from the Similan Islands, where you simply know you want to go, and much more...

Stomp your feet all you want, loot boxes make too much money for publishers to give much of a damn about critic input and fan anger because at the end of the day, they only need their whales but The Sims is different.

I don't know much about Shinto wedding customs or Japanese whaling traditions, so some of the film went over my head.

The planned film is about the quest — and solitude — as much as it is about the whale itself, Zeman, the director, told me recently.

The fight over fin whales is as much about ethics as conservation biology.

That might not seem much, but I'm sure the 170 whales that won't be killed will be quite pleased about it.

And there's so much to learn about these whales.

The fact of the matter is that Japan's whaling activities are in all likelihood done in violation of the international ban against whaling (the scientific objection being pretty much ludicrous...); there's more and more evidence that cetaceans should probably be granted non-human person status, making killing them doubly wrong; and debate about whether Sea Shepherd's actions (which have proven quite effective in cutting the number of whales killed) are or are not permissible and are or are not truly in the spirit of non-violence which Watson and Sea Shepherd have publicly espoused will no doubt go on.