Tiger sharks actually eat whatever they can find. This is where they get the nickname “waste basket of the sea”. (http://www.sharkinfo.ch/SI4_99e/gcuvier.html) They consume fish, turtles, dolphins and other sharks, they are man eaters. Tiger sharks eat about two to three percent of their own body weight per day to cover their energy requirements. These sharks have a very great sense of smell and sight.
Consequently, snapping turtles eat fish and crustaceans. Most freshwater turtles, when young, eat the larvae of aquatic invertebrates. As they grow older, their diet switches to aquatic vegetation. Sea turtles eat on a variety of marine invertebrates and vegetation. For example,
Fish are very special creatures. Some travel alone, while other travel in large groups called “schools.” These schools, depending on the species can be huge with thousands of fish all swimming and cooperating together in one harmonious team. 80% of the over 20,000 known species of fish swim in schools. Some examples are cod, tuna, menhaden, sardine, and mackerel. Are there advantages to swimming in school?
The ribbon snake (Thamnophis sauritus) in particular favors frogs (including tadpoles), readily eating them despite their strong chemical defenses. Food is swallowed whole. Garter snakes often adapt to eating whatever they can find, and whenever, because food can be scarce or abundant. Although they feed mostly upon live animals, they will sometimes eat eggs the most popular species of garter snakes kept in captivity. Baby garter snakes shed their first skin almost immediately, and will begin eating soon after.
Most of the adult of this species are feeding on the marine plants life such as kelp and the algae while the young prefer more carnivores feeding style. In addition, they also may migrate in long distance in order to obtain their foods covered by from feeding ground to the hatching beaches. In addition, their adult can grow up to 1.5 metres long with the average weight from 68 to 190 kg. Physically they have the flattened body which covered by a large teardrop-shaped carapace with a pair of large paddle-like flippers that are usually light in colour. This reptiles also have the short neck.
Off the coast of California Sea Otters feed off of over forty marine invertebrates including abalone, mussels, sea urchins, clams, crabs and snails to name a few. Putting themselves in an elite category of mammals, Sea Otters use tools to pry food from rocks, or to smash open shells. Their catlike claws retract like a cat's for grooming and eating which is important as they eat twenty to twenty five percent of their body weight each day. Not only that, but they have a built-in dinner table: their bellies. They even have pockets of skin under the forelegs to stash food for their trip from sea bed to water's surface.
I thought It was so beautiful and it has a very unusual life. It has the wing just like the bird in the sky. Some of them can make electric shock when people or other animal touch at their body. Ray fish is a one of the most mysterious fish in the word . They usually live in the deep ocean that why people hardly know much about them.
Sea turtles prefer living in temperate and tropical waters and climate change is the cause for many sea turtle deaths. The diet of the green sea turtle changes throughout its life. They are carnivores during the early stages of their lives but become herbivores once they mature. When the sea turtle is young they will eat worms, crustaceans, aquatic insects, grasses and algae as their main diet. When their jaws have finally grown, they can
December 1, 2011 Paul Guernsey College Composition Final Conservation of the Bluefin Tuna Bluefin Tuna, or Thunnus thynnus by its Latin name, is one of the largest, fastest swimming, and beautifully colored fish in the entire ocean. Their coloring is made to camouflage themselves from both above and below with metallic blue on top and shimmering silver-white on the bottom. Their bodies are torpedo shaped and built for speed and endurance while hunting for food, or being hunted (National Geographic). bluefin Tuna are prey only to some marine life such as, some whale, shark, and marine mammal species. With highly migratory species like bluefin tuna, management is complicated because these species migrate thousands of miles across oceans and international borders and are fished by many nations.
This means giving birth to live young, and these newborns are over two feet long. Most whale sharks are sexually mature at thirty years old. This is when they are able to mate and reproduce. One thing that may be of some relief would be that whale sharks are harmless to people and usually to divers as well. But to top all of that, it is estimated that whale sharks live up to 100 150 years.