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Here are the top 150 ocean names inspired by the sea for baby girls and baby boys. ... Animals. Business. Fitness. Food. Games. Health. ... Popular Ocean Names For Babies With Meanings.
The most common pinniped species kept in captivity is the California sea lion as it is abundant and easy to train. [153] These animals are used to perform tricks and entertain visitors. [154] Other species popularly kept in captivity include the grey seal and harbor seal. Larger animals like walruses and Steller sea lions are much less common ...
Mother sea otter with sleeping pup, Morro Bay, California In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male , female , young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in ...
The genus name Orcinus means 'of the kingdom of the dead', [8] or 'belonging to Orcus'. [9] Ancient Romans originally used orca [10] (pl. orcae) for these animals, possibly borrowing Ancient Greek ὄρυξ (óryx), which referred (among other things) to a whale species, perhaps a narwhal. [11]
Five pinniped species, clockwise from top left: New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri), southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), and grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) Combined range of all pinnipeds
The study showed that there was 99% more female sea turtles then male. The temperature [158] of the sand has a big impact on the sex of the sea turtle. This is not common with other animals but it is with sea turtles. Warmer or hot sand usually makes the sea turtle female and the cooler the sand usually makes male.
Conventionally, the planet is divided into five separate oceans, but these oceans all connect into a single world ocean. [16] The mass of this world ocean is 1.35 × 10 18 metric tons or about 1/4400 of Earth's total mass. The world ocean covers an area of 3.618 × 10 8 km 2 with a mean depth of 3682 m, resulting in an estimated volume of 1.332 ...
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