Imagine that you woke up one morning and you were slimy like a sea cucumber’s protection slime. What would you do? Would you act like someone who was so scared that they cried for the rest of their lives? Or would you be as calm as somebody who cruised along the dead sea for hours and hours in an inner tube while drinking a shirley temple from a coconut shell? An ecosystem or ekosustav in the Croatian language, is a complex set of relationships among the living, resources, habitats and residents of an area. It can include …show more content…
To start off, Blobfish have an adaptation that causes them to do some cool things for food. According to navajocodetalkers.org, animals that are almost helpless, blobfish dwell almost completely still for their full lifetime. They are only pulled towards moving if there might be food nearby. This helps the blobfish because,If they weren’t so still, their prey would be afraid of their movement and wouldn’t drift into their mouths.Additionally, Blobfish have an adaptation due to barely any bones or
...he big question is, how far do we push it and are we going to exterminate the main killing machine of the watery ecosystem with the quest for our own survival? It remains a mystery.
My vomit clouded the ocean surface with a purple-brown color before fading below the depths. On the other side of the vessel, I re-equipped my mask and plunged into the water to be greeted by my aunt – she was to be my snorkeling partner as she had much experience in the depths of Hawaii. When I submerged my head it was almost as if I had entered a new world. This unseen dimension housed a coral reef that vibrantly shone with a mixture of bright reds and deep blues. The reef almost seemed to pulsate as thousands of fish darted in and out of their subterranean homes. The water was thick with salt and teemed with plankton. We often resurfaced to point out fish to each other. I remember my aunt telling me of the environmental dangers of touching the still-living coral. “If you pierce its skin it will likely become infected and die, and all of the fish who live in it will die too,” she expertly explained. From then on I kept my distance to at least 5-6
...er. like most pelagic sharks, the hammerhead need to keep moving not just to stay away from the bottom but also to help it breath. if a hammerhead stops swimming it will drown. the hammerheads flat head acts as a wing to keep it from the bottom.
With more primitive ocean species occurring more in our oceans many problems are posed by them. One thing is that they interfere more and more with the cycle that our oceans go through the animal’s way of life is changing. For example the Australian algae has definitely disrupted ecosyst...
Seahorses have no teeth and no stomach. Food passes through their digestive systems so quickly, they must eat almost constantly to stay alive.
THESIS: Life on earth has been considered by some as a purposeful interaction tending toward ecological stability. However, when the scientific community led by James Lovelock tried to match this concept with science, it was (and continues to be) a dilemma.
Beginning with the simplest one-celled organism, an extraordinary animal rose in the murky waters entitled to a non-comparable killing-eating machine. This organism has become nature’s most genuine and most successful creature that it has remained unchanged for over 250 million years. Nature finally invented the perfect king of the sea. This animal has given the sea it’s “living” adjective; in turn, it was entitled—the “great white shark.”
When you see a dolphin, you are in awe, but what sort of questions do you ask? How do they swim so fast, what do they eat, where do they live? First, the anatomy of a dolphin. We’ll start with a dolphin’s teeth. Dolphins have eighty to one-hundred cone-shaped teeth. These teeth are set up in a position to interlock and hold slippery fish in its mouth. Because the teeth interlock like that, and the teeth are as sharp as they are, dolphins cannot chew their food. Therefore, they must result to swallowing their food whole. To a dolphin, an open mouth is a sign of aggression, and clapping jaws are an even greater sign of aggression. This rarely happens unless it is during mating season because dolphins talk without opening their mouth.
The word “jellyfish” is often used to describe animals that are made of gelatinous materials. Some types of jellyfish sting (called medusae) and others do not (called a salp). When a huge amount of plants or animals show up suddenly, scientists call it a “bloom”. Jellyfish often bloom, which causes issues for fisheries and tourism. A common analogy used to describe the delicate way jellyfish pounce through the water likens the jelly’s movements to ‘a simple form of jet propulsion’.
Its teeth, like most shark teeth, have an upper tooth that does the tearing of flesh while the lower teeth puncture and hold onto prey [1]. The typical diet of a blue shark is mammalian carcasses, cuttlefish, octopus, smaller sharks, sea birds, crustaceans, but most important part of the diet is squid. In the documentary Blue Planet, it shows a blue shark preying upon a group of krill, which seems interesting considering the size of the shark. They attack like most sharks, with one large bite and wait for the prey to bleed to death
Jellyfish move by expanding and contracting to push the water behind them. In between each contraction and expansion is a pause so that a vortex can be created ...
I?m on the step to soaking in the ground and I?m draining in the ground. I?m waiting to get cleaned all of a sudden a worm comes and eat me. I guest the worm didn?t see me there so I bang on his yelling ?Hey you umm wormy can I get out of here pl-ease?
From the frozen tundra of the arctic north to the arid deserts of sub-Saharan Africa – humans not only survive, but even thrive in some of the most extreme and remote environments on the planet. This is a testament to the remarkable capacity for adaptation possessed by our species. Each habitat places different stressors on human populations, and they must adapt in order to mitigate them. That is, adaptation is the process by which man and other organisms become better suited to their environments. These adaptations include not only physical changes like the larger lung capacities observed in high altitude natives but also cultural and behavioral adjustments such as traditional Inuit clothing styles, which very effectively retain heat but discourage deadly hyperthermia-inducing sweat in Arctic climates. Indeed, it seems this later mechanism of adaptation is often much more responsible for allowing humans to populate such a wide variety of habitats, spanning all seven continents, rather than biological mechanisms. Of course, not all adaptations are entirely beneficial, and in fact may be maladaptive, particularly behavior adaptations and highly specialized physical adaptations in periods of environmental change. Because people rely heavily on social learning, maladaptaptive behaviors such as sedentarization and over-eating – both contributing to obesity – are easily transmitted from person to person and culture to culture, as seen in the Inuit’s adoption of American cultural elements.
- - - . "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life." Bradley and Blodgett 253-256.
Probably the most serious predators of baboons are the large carnivores such as cheetahs and leopards. Baboons live mostly on the ground but sleep in such places as trees or cliffs. “Throughout Africa baboons achieve some protection from nocturnal predators by sleeping in tall trees or on cliffs (Smuts 19). Usually each troop sleeps on a different cliff, but occasionally two troops will share a single sleeping site.