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The Dolphin Institute - Resource Guide
The dolphins body, except for pectoral fins, dorsal fin, and tail flukes is well insulated by a thick blubber layer. Detection of temperature, therefore, if used by dolphins, would likely be restricted t these appendages without blubber, although there appear to be ...
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The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation - Image Library
In this photo Van Sommeran gestures toward the dead whales torn and broken mandible and the missing tongue. Long parallel scratched on the whales flukes and pectoral fins are also clearly associated with orca predation. The juvenile gray whale washed ashore two miles north of Ano Nuevo Island in ...
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Dolphin Synergy: THE DANCE OF THE DOLPHINS
For the past 30-40 million years they have had the same cranial capacity & have hardly changed.The pectoral fins have almost the same bone structure as humans, with 3 upper arm bones & 5 fingers. The embryos show distinct traces of their terrestrial roots, with a domed cranium, some hair, a nose & mouth, rudimentary external ears ...
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Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
Electric eels can generate electric charges courtesy NOAA What are moray eels and where are they found? Green moray Keri Wilk Moray eels have well developed teeth, and lack scales and pectoral fins. Moray eels live in tropical and subtropical ocean waters of the world. In the United States, they are mostly found in Florida ...
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Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
Some fishes actually use their pectoral fins almost exclusively for swimming. Three examples are the filefishes, trunkfishes, and the puffers. Prepared ...
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Migration of the Southern Humpback Whales
Sometimes the confusion ends in a single pair rising with their pectoral fins interlaced, belly-to-belly above the water, clasping each other and holding that position for 30 seconds or more and then subsiding into the deep. Mating may also occur in a less dramatic fashion with the whales ...
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Migration of the Southern Humpback Whales
Mothers often follow patiently behind their calf allowing plenty of time for practice. Displays of affection from the mother to the calf which are part of this nurturing stage include the mother stroking her pectoral fins along the under belly of the calf and tumbling the calf off her upper jaw. The feeding time in Hervey Bay ...
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This was due to the lack of space for swimming and also because of his damaged left pectoral fin, which was dislocated during his capture. As a young dolphin, he was hauled into a fishing ... sling would be used. This stretcher would be tailored to Flipper's measurements, leaving holes for his pectoral fins and having foam padding to protect his head and, especially, his eyes. The sling would be ...
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Dolphin Care UK -
The dolphins appear to smile as they pull laughing children around swimming pools by their dorsal fins. But you don't have to look too deep beneath this whimsical facade to realize that there ... if to say "yes" or "no" and offering "handshakes" or waving at the audience with their pectoral fins. Dolphins are trained through food deprivation. When they successfully perform a trick they are rewarded ...
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And when the dolphins 'kiss' their trainers, applaud at their own tricks with their pectoral fins, and eagerly nod their heads in agreement to questions like 'are we having fun?' it adds very human-like traits to the dolphins, leaving the audience with the false notion that there does indeed exist a common ...
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