Mammal

Blue Whale The blue whale Balaenoptera musculus is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whales Mysticeti. The blue whale is the largest animal to have ever existed. The blue whale can mature up to 100 feet long and can weigh up to 173 tons. The diet of the blue whale consisits of mostly small crustaceans known as krill but also eat small plants and fish. The blue whale’s body type is long and slender and their body shade varies from greyish blue to a dark navy blue. The whales dorsal can…

The idea of evolution was once taboo for its new ideas at the time, it was seen as wrong because it challenged ideas already established about the world, especially how life came to be. Evolution is a relatively new idea discovered by Charles Darwin. This discovery came to be when Darwin was traveling along the Galapagos islands where he studied finches and discovered that these finches had all originated from one species of finch and eventually became differentiated leading the species to split…

hearing. This mammal has an added part of the brain that allows the orcas to communicate between orcas. This language allows them to be social between other whales and also social with human beings. Their beauty has astounded humans for generations, but for many orcas captivity limits their freedom and their quality of life. The inadequate living conditions for the orcas affect them physically and mentally. Sea World, the amusement park, has been profiting off of the giant mammal since 1965.…

Gas Exchange Gas exchange is the process in which gases enter and leave a body by diffusion across gas exchange surfaces. Gas exchange is important as it transfers oxygen from surroundings of an organism to individual cells in the organism’s body, needed by the cells for respiration to occur. Carbon dioxide is released. This process produces energy which is essential to an organism for survival. Group 1 – Insects The definition of an insect is any of a group of small and often winged animals…

Image seeing a mammal with a bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver and a fur like an otter. It might be hard to believe but actually this is a description of a platypus. These fascinating mammals have many unique characteristics that make them different from other animals these include their diet, their habitat and their defense meckisiam. Let's explore the platypus’s diet. The platypus spends 12 hours on an average day searching for food. A platypus is a carnivore so their diet consist of…

it is very rare that all rats survive their first year of life due to the limitations of food availability and the high number of predators that oppose them. Rat reproduction is extremely similar to the reproduction of other mammals because, like the majority of mammals, rats are placental. This means that male rats mate with female rats that hold their offspring in their uterus for a brief time. While in the womb, the offspring is nourished by a placenta, allowing the offspring to grow and…

Tasmanian Devils are carnivorous marsupials that have marveled mankind with its intense strength for its small size. This one foot tall mammal is probably one of the toughest in the world. These nocturnal animals live primarily in Tasmania and Australia. These snarling creatures have a life span average of about five years. In those five years the Tasmanian Devil accomplishes all nine processes of life. As endangerment is concerned, these creatures need lots of love and help from the mankind as…

2008). Its humerus is closest to the body, thin and long in comparison to other mammals (Meyers et al 2014). Their radius is attached to the humerus and it is a long and thin nonetheless also a strong bone that supports the wing, while the ulna is reduced and fused with radius (Meyers et al 2014). Chiroptera wrists have been modified to support motions that deals with flying but has reduced flexible compared to other mammals (Meyers et al 2014). The bait forelimbs may be also used for climbing,…

Both reading passage and lecture are about reasons that made the sea otter to be declined. According to the reading passage, the author claims that environmental pollution and predation are the reasons of this declining. However, the professor doubts that by stating that the reason is the predation only. First, the passage states that according to the pollution sources that found along the Alaskan coast and the level of chemicals that increased, the sea otter population has declined. In…

lions are animals that love to hunt they would eat almost any animals that they are able to catch. Mountain lions love the Chase to be able to catch their prey is seen sometime as a game. They would eat large mammals and small mammal’s large mammals such as deer and humans and small mammals like beavers, rabbits, possums, raccoons, squirrels and mice. So if you stop moving long enough…