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Pectoral Fins Lower Jaw
1,728 wordsThe hump-back whale gets it's name from the distinctive hump in front of the dorsal fin and from the way it raises it's back high above water before diving. They are a member of the order Cetacea. This order is of aquatic mammals and the hump-back belongs to the suborder of the Mysticeti. The Mysticeti are the baleen whales which have three families and several species. The family in which the hump-back belongs is the Balaenopteridae, the true fin backed whale. The thing that separates this genu...
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The Bottle Nosed Dolphin
1,135 wordsThe Bottle-nosed Dolphin is the most studied and generally the best-known species of dolphin. Bottle-nosed dolphins are classified "Tursiops truncates" in scientific name, and belong to the family Delphinidae, in the suborder Odontoceti, order Cetacea. This animal is a very intelligent individual. Bottle-nosed dolphins are commonly found in zoos or marine parks because of their capability to perform tricks. They can jump through hoops 5 meters high because of their incredibly powerful tail. As w...
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Catch And Release In Fishing
1,372 words... ip; unfortunately, this is not always the case. When fishing with small lures or live bait the chance for hooking a fish deep in the gullet or in the gills is very high. Never pull on the line when the hook is lodged deep in the gullet. Cutting the line and returning the fish to the water as quickly as possible will give it its greatest chance of survival. The longer a fish is out of the water and the more surgical practice techniques, the less the fish has a chance to live. Depth When fishi...
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Sleep Apnea Sleep Disorders
1,272 words... e Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) measures the speed of falling asleep. In this test, patients are given several opportunities to fall asleep during the course of a day when they would normally be awake. For each opportunity, time to fall asleep is measured. People without sleep problems usually take an average of 10 to 20 minutes to fall asleep. Individuals who fall asleep in less than 5 minutes are likely to require some treatment for sleep disorders. The MSLT may be useful to measure t...
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Meat Eating Lower Jaw
387 wordsMarsupials are pouched mammals. Their young are born in an immature state after a relatively short developmental period in the mothers uterus. (This is called the gestation period. ) The newborn marsupial crawls into a pouch or onto a pouch-like area on the mothers abdomen. Here it attaches itself to one of her nipples and remains until it is well formed and has grown much larger. There are some 250 kinds of living marsupials. These include the Australian and New Guinean insectivorous and carniv...
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Pectoral Fins Lower Jaw
2,006 wordsTo look up into the mountains and see the steam rolling from a mountain stream on a cold winters morning is a beautiful sight. However, to look out over the horizon and see the white spray of salt water coming from the blow of a huge hump-back whale is much more exciting sight and a whole lot warmer. I lived in the mountains of Colorado for most of my childhood. The first time I had the opportunity to see the ocean was on a vacation to California, when I was about 15 years old. It was even bette...
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