Fish oil

stores oil to help reduce the need to feed but it allows the basking shark to have plenty of energy all the time. This shark has an amazing food web. All they really eat is zooplankton. They really don't eat other fishes or sea animal even though it’s the second biggest mammal in the sea. The basking shark liver does most of the work it gives it energy and its nutrients that it needs. The basking shark can go a pretty long time without eating.Most of their diet consists of plankton, fish…

Baleen Whales Baleen whales are the largest animals on earth, yet they feed on some of the smallest animals in the ocean. There are 12 baleen whale species divided into 4 families: Right, Pygmy right, Gray, and Rorqual. Characteristic baleen plates and paired blowholes help distinguish baleen whales from toothed whales. Whaling is definitely affecting the world's ecosystems. It has decimated the great whale population, especially in the southern hemisphere. The whales are vital to the food…

stress of animals and interfere with the sound-based orientation. Biotic and abiotic sounds are the two components of underwater environment produced by fish and mammals in order to communicate and orient. Acoustic masking is one of the main effects of noise pollutions on marine animals. The noise from boating and shipping has an effect on fish and hearing abilities and physiological damage on their hearing systems. The sound of the boats also avoids responses in the herring. Some noises made…

Maverick Wagner Evolution 2/20/15 Evolution of the Great White Shark Did you know that sharks appeared in the fossil record about 450 million years ago? The great white shark is one of many different species of cartilaginous fish out. There are approximately 350 species of sharks worldwide. The great white has become one of the most feared predators in the sea leaving the question as to how it achieved this success. The great white is about four to six meters in length and can weigh…

Crocodiles are endangered in some areas because people have been poaching these animals for their hides. Pollution is also a big part of why these creatures are endangered; their habitats are being over ran by people, and these people leave trash, oil and other types of contaminates that can directly harm the Crocodiles or their food source. Commercial farming of Crocodiles has affected their population because farmers will remove the adult Crocodiles from their habitat in order to breed them…

“Kelpie! Avalon! Come away from those reeds!” Araxie called to her two Grindylows. They came swimming towards her, each competing against the other to see who would get to their mistress first. Once or twice, Kelpie would turn to Avalon and try to rake her green skin with his long claws, only to be whipped in the face by the latter’s tentacles. Smiling, Araxie swam backwards, coaxing her pets further towards the safety of the cave she called home. She loved how they would obey her and stick by…

Sea turtles are among the most extraordinary, charismatic and fascinating creatures, and are some of the world’s greatest nomads, sometimes navigating thousands of miles between feeding and nesting grounds. They are long-lived animals, having a complex life history, low reproductive capacity due to high juvenile mortality rates, and they travel long distances and thus encounter many fishing operations, making them vulnerable to overexploitation and fishing mortality (Spotila, 2004). Five…

I messed you and our family, I hope you all are alright. I wish if I could be there with you just for 5 minutes to see you but I can't. Since that day we went hunting the fish we found in ocean i knew something wrong will happen. The ocean swallowed us and we pushed away from home for very long days. While we were fishing in the boat. suddenly a strong storm came the waters started going crazy. we have lost control on our boat. And the ocean just pushed us away. So many days we stayed on that…

There are many different organisms and mammals that inhabit the oceans of our world and each one is unique and special to their environments. Each organism has a vital role to play and each is important in keeping our oceans balanced. Two of my favorite animals that I’d like to explore further is the sea otters and the manatees, both amazing marine mammals. Both animals are now considered endangered and many have taken acts towards conservation for them to perhaps strive once again in the future…

to nothing. To allow for each animal—seahorse or other animal that eats shrimp or plankton—to collect enough food, the population of each must be distributed throughout different areas and populations of the ocean. Crustaceans, sting rays and some fish are predators to seahorses. The number of these species in an area of seahorses affects how many seahorses will survive in their habitat. However, predator-prey relationships between these different species have a cause and effect relationship as…