Crustacean

Red Snapper Industry of Pensacola Critical to understanding the eventual development of the fishing industry in Pensacola is recognizing the city’s geographical location and land features. In Hawkshaw: Prehistory and History in an Urban Neighborhood in Pensacola, Florida, the environmental setting is laid bare. A major land shaping force in the area is the Gulf of Mexico. During the Pleistocene Era, the sea level was 300 feet lower than it is today due to “glacial episodes.” Due to the low sea…

Inner Boston Harbor's Thompson Island is a gem of an easy access spot if you're looking for fishing the flats for striped bass or deeper and structured-waters on the same plus bluefish. Access is good: kayak fishermen can use the little-more-than-a-mile-from-the-island hand-carry at City Point, ditto the ramp at Malibu Beach, Neponset for powerboaters with trailers with four-wheel drive. In addition to flats fishing on the island's back side, Thompson holds within its contours two tidal…

Jael Lee April 18, 2016 Honors Contract ENV 150 Carnivorous plants are fascinating creatures. Normally, plants gain nutrients through the process of photosynthesis. Carnivorous plants are, however, are a special case. Just the thought of knowing that plants of all things can eat animals is mind blowing! It completely defies their very nature. For that reason, they have crept their way into the media industry. Even though there exists no carnivorous plant that can actually kill a human,…

including lobsters. David Foster Wallace wrote an essay titled, “Consider the Lobster,” to inform the public about the issues that has been happening between the lobster consumers, lobster defenders, and their feelings towards boiling alive the aquatic crustacean. Wallace is obviously against boiling lobsters alive for consumption, but in his essay he has managed to make it seem as if he is on both sides of the argument. The reason Wallace never seemed to pick a side in his essay is because he…

Species taxonomy- The Olive Ridley Sea Turtle belongs to the kingdom: Animalia, the Phylum: Chordata, the Class: Reptilia, the Order: Testudines, Family: Cheloniidae, Genus: Lepidochelys, and its species is olivacea. Thus the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle’s scientific name is Lepidochelys olivacea. (NOAA, 2014) In Spanish the Olive Ridley is called Golfina. (Sea turtle Inc., 2016) There is only one other animal in the genus Lepidochelys and it is the Kemp’s Rideys Sea Turtle: Kingdom: Animalia,…

years of age and can live up to 100 years of age if they partook in a healthy lifestyle, which includes living on a primarily herbivore diet (seagrasses and algae) as an adult, while juvenile turtles may feed on invertebrates such as insects and crustaceans. Typically, green sea turtles live and grow in shallow waters, most usually around islands and beaches, near reefs and/or bays, and they are attracted to lagoons due to their abundance in nutrients. The only times they remove themselves from…

They usually feed at night and especially during a full moon. Also including are a select few of amphibians and crustaceans as well (USFWS, 2001). Brown Pelicans can spot a school of fish in the water while flying as high as 65 feet. They tuck and twist to the left in order to protect their trachea and esophagus from the impact of hitting the water. Their throat pouch…

toothless. The seahorse opens and closes its jaw in a rapid snapping movement while lowering the floor of its mouth to intense the volume. The snout is designed to suck up microscopic animals that live in the sea (Dive 1). These creatures include small crustaceans, brine shrimp, zooplankton, worms and other invertebrates (Dive 1). Seahorses usually ambush these…

The diet of the Rice Rat includes grasses, seeds, fruits, crustaceans and small fish. The Rice Rat was probably nocturnal and inhabits burrows or rock crevices under bushes. The head and body of the Rice Rat measure 9 – 20 centimeters and it has a tail length of 7.5 – 25 centimeters. It weighs around of 40 – 80 grams…

The North American River Otter (Lutra canadensis) is an animal that is often seen in zoo captivity. Previous research demonstrates that otters are solitary with age, form kinship like relationships, often undergo positive reinforcement and active training techniques, and become lethargic after feeding. This study sought to demonstrate the effects of number of people and time since feeding on river otter backflip activity. By observing two river otters every minute post feeding for backflips and…