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An orca performs as Shamu at SeaWorld San Diego. A marine mammal park (also known as marine animal park and sometimes oceanarium) is a commercial theme park or aquarium where marine mammals such as dolphins, beluga whales and sea lions are kept within water tanks and displayed to the public in special shows.
Other aquatic mammals, such as the Indian rhinoceros, were targets for sport hunting and had a sharp population decline in the 1900s. After it was made illegal, many aquatic mammals became subject to poaching. Other than hunting, aquatic mammals can be killed as bycatch from fisheries, where they become entangled in fixed netting and drown or ...
The term "marine mammal" encompasses all mammals whose survival depends entirely or almost entirely on the oceans, which have also evolved several specialized aquatic traits. In addition to the above, several other mammals have a great dependency on the sea without having become so anatomically specialized, otherwise known as "quasi-marine ...
Manatees (/ ˈ m æ n ə t iː z /, family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows.There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing three of the four living species in the order Sirenia: the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis), the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), and the West ...
Belugas swimming in the Abbott Oceanarium at the Shedd Aquarium.The lower level of the Oceanarium allows underwater viewing of the beluga whales and the dolphins. When a new 170,000-square-foot exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago opened on April 27, 1991, it debuted as the largest indoor marine mammal facility in the world.
A beluga whale has gone viral for its adorable reaction to a proposal that took place near its aquarium. Thanks to a 16-year-old female beluga whale named Qinu, Olivia Walsh and Gavin Hulberg's ...
All mammals sleep, but porpoises cannot afford to become unconscious for long because they may drown. While knowledge of sleep in wild cetaceans is limited, porpoises in captivity have been recorded to sleep with one side of their brain at a time, so that they may swim, breathe consciously, and avoid both predators and social contact during ...
Some insectivorous mammals such as desmans, water shrews and platypuses. Some carnivoran mammals, including seals, otter and polar bears. Some marsupials, including the water opossum and the two lutrine opossums. Hippopotamuses. Indian rhinoceros. Water buffalo. Tapirs. Moose.