The members of a pod hunt together, attacking even very large prey and then sharing it. The pod members always protect the young, the sick and the injured. Orcas grow to be about 27-33 feet long, and weigh more than 8,000-12,000 pounds. The male orca is larger than the female. They are the largest member of the dolphin family.
The pots were about 3 feet 6 inches and contained two to three dozen good size crayfish weighing about two several pounds. The men said it was about one hundred and fifteen to three hundred feet long. Another eyewitness saw a great white shark the size of a tractor trailer had attacked a person. Many sharks have been clocked out as fast as 1.5 miles and the mega shark could probably swim in a longer distance since this is a bigger shark. Two percent of the ocean has been overlooked by people ant it leaves ninety-eight percent of the ocean for the megladon can swim.
The Burmese python is an excellent swimmer and needs a permanent source of water for survival. They can be found in grasslands, marshes, swamps, rocky foothills, woodlands, river valleys, and jungles with openings. The Burmese can live from 20 to 25 years in the wild, and can grow up to but not limited to 23 feet in length. The largest known Burmese python is 49 feet discovered in Indonesia. They can weigh up to 200 pounds and are native to jungles and grassy marshes.
While being submerged it is either spending its time in rigorous activity or in long periods of sleep. This sea turtle can remain underwater for up to five hours on a single breath. The heart of the Green Sea turtle slows to a rate of one heart beat every nine minutes. The Green Sea Turtles respiratory system is able to support it at great depths and distances. It has an excessive breath-hold capability that must be able to withstand long periods of time without exhalation.
SO what the killer whale does it dives in the water and become submerged in the water for more than 15 minutes so they can use echolocation and listen where their prey is 3. Another selective pressure is the pressure that increases as they dive. Unlike human scuba divers, a whale doesn’t breathe air under pressure. It inhales only at the surface. Furthermore, in diving mammals, the alveoli collapse at about 3 atmospheres of pressure (about 90 feet), forcing air into the bronchioles (rigid air passages), a region where gases are not exchanged.
In a type three survivorship curve, a very large portion of the cohort is killed within the first few weeks of life (Natural Mortality Lab). C. Chyros and S. hispidus are economically important species as a food source. C. chrysos serves as a source of bait for other fishes. Both the blue runner and planehead file fish species eat plankton and associated matter (Rooker et al.
They have no natural enemies except man and power boats which are responsible for most manatee deaths- (in 1990, 218 manatees or 12 % of the total population were killed by boats), though the red tide (toxins released from the bloom of dinoflagellates) of 1982 and1996 killed over 15% of the population. It is suspected that environmental pollutions create disease vulnerability in marine mammals with manatees being no exception. An example is when 10,000 seals died in 1988 in Denmark and Sweden from viruses related to canine distemper. High concentrations of PCB’s were detected in necropsies of these seals, presumably from the water and fish they ate. Other threats include accidental
They like to eat fish and amphibians. This snake mates from late May to early June by forming “mating balls” consisting of one female and several males. They are live births, not hatched in eggs and have an average litter size of four up to ninety-nine but average about thirty babies. Only fifteen percent of the young survive their first year. They grow quickly, but then slow down when they approach sexual maturity, which is about two to three years.
They feed primarily on salmon and travel in pods of 15-30 individuals. The pods are matriarchal and it is typical for the offspring to spend their entire lives with their mothers. The dorsal fins of residents are rounded with a sharp angle on the trailing edge. (Ford, Ellis, & Balcomb, 1994) Transient Pods Transient orcas travel in much smaller groups; a pod usually has no more than 5-7 individual members. The home range of transients is much harder to define than that of the residents.
It is 4 meters deep, 2.5 meters wide and 1 ton in weight. In that nest the bald eagles lays eggs once a year or less but only 1-4 eggs at a time. The eggs are all white. The bald eagle can live up to thirty years, but even longer when it is in captivity because when their in the wild people wreck them and they get sick by D.D.T. It is illegal now though to hunt or use D.D.T.