from the western Atlantic Ocean isolated and distinct from those in the rest of its range. The blacktip shark has a stout‚ fusiform body with a pointed snout‚ long gill slits‚ and no ridge between the dorsal fins. Most individuals have black tips or edges on the pectoral‚ dorsal‚ pelvic‚ and caudal fins. It usually attains a length of 1.5 m (4.9 ft). Swift‚ energetic piscivores‚ blacktip sharks are known to make spinning leaps out of the
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mouth‚ which opens very widely but is not big enough to contain the fish ’s long teeth. The viperfish is also bioluminescent‚ with photophores light-emitting organs on its dorsal fin and along its body to lure its prey to it. The fish has been observed hovering in place in the water with its dorsal fin curved around so that its photophore is waving near its mouth‚ as a means of drawing prey. Because the viperfish ’s body is dark blue or black in color‚ it is thought that other
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Long-spined Porcupinefish is a robust fish with rounded dorsal and anal fins. Spines on the forehead of the Long-spined Porcupinefish are slightly shorter to much longer than are those immediately behind the pectoral fin base. Long-spined Porcupinefish have a broad dark bar through the eyes and‚ usually‚ four dark saddles on the back. The rest of the body is brownish yellow‚ paler below‚ with dark brown spots of moderate size (no spots on the fins beyond their bases). These spots are larger than the
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INTRODUCTION As for the visual documentation of a living or dead specimen‚ digital photography has largely replaced traditional illustrations of the living specimen as the standard method of recording the colour and anatomy of the specimen in the field today. Earlier traditional illustration (coloured and black and white) are still considered scientifically important because they can stress fine anatomical features that are often obscured by liquid. Even today‚ these earlier traditional illustrations
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Animal Classification 1 Animal Classification Karen Fowler SCI/230 Karen Andarko November 19‚2011 Animal Classification 2 Metazoa is another name for Kingdom Animalia. This kingdom does not contain prokaryotes or the potists and all members are multi-cellular and are heterotrophs. They mostly ingest their food and digest it into an internal cavity
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splash in the water. He thinks it’s just his mind messing with him. Maco heard another slash and jerks around and see and dorsal fin gliding through the water. Maco think he saw Tupa’s ghost lurking in the waters like a cat ready to strike. Maco thought wrong. He is seeing the son of Tupa---Lupa---. Lupa was a small great white shark with a cut of the bottom of the dorsal fin. Earlier the next morning‚ Maco seat out peacefully to gather some oranges and bananas like a chipmunk sneaking around. On
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swim around. This causes them to simply float without moving for several hours. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation [WDC](2017) reported that one-hundred percent of captive orcas experience dorsal fin collapse. Dorsal fin collapse only occurs in male orcas‚ and is a sign of poor health. With a collapsed dorsal fin‚ males are less attractive to females in regard to sexual reproduction; which has lead to SeaWorld breeding orcas in captivity. Almost all of the captive whales born in captivity die within
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The cruel act of confining Orcas to bathtub sized pens is not only inhumane‚ but also a hazard to current and future Orcas by affecting their physical‚ mental‚ and social health. Orcas‚ who are more commonly known as killer whales‚ can grow up to twenty to thirty feet on average and swim up to 100 miles a day‚ keeping their body healthy and fit. Aside from their large and strong body structure‚ Orcas are highly intelligent and social animals that work together in pods when hunting while even being
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The primary swimming form of the Orangespotted Sunfish is labriform because they row their pectoral fins‚ an oscillatory fin motion. The mouth of these fish are terminal and moderately large. A terminal mouth allows this species to be a benthic and surface feeder. Their gill rakers are long and slender with space between them. This allows for particles in the water
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usually of two to six animals‚ and have less persistent family bonds than residents. Transients vocalize in less variable and less complex dialects. Female transients are characterized by more triangular and pointed dorsal fins than those of residents. The gray or white area around the dorsal fin‚ known as the "saddle patch"‚ often contains some black colouring in residents. * Offshore: A third population of killer whales in the northeast Pacific was discovered in 1988‚ when a humpback whale researcher
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