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Harbour porpoises tend to be solitary foragers, but they do sometimes hunt in packs and herd fish together. [10] Young porpoises need to consume about 7% to 8% of their body weight each day to survive, which is approximately 15 pounds or 7 kilograms of fish. Significant predators of harbour porpoises include white sharks and killer whales (orcas
Among the three rescues, one (father of world's first harbour porpoise born in captivity) lived for 20 years in captivity, another for 15 years, [32] [33] while the third (mother of first born in captivity) is the world's oldest known harbour porpoise, being 28 years old in 2023. [34] The typical age reached in the wild is 14 years or less.
Spectacled porpoise: circumpolar in cool sub-Antarctic and low Antarctic waters Phocoena phocoena: Harbour porpoise: cooler coastal waters of the North Atlantic, North Pacific and the Black Sea Phocoena sinus: Vaquita: northern area of the Gulf of California, or Sea of Cortez Phocoena spinipinnis: Burmeister's porpoise: coast of South America
Jack, a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) at the Vancouver Aquarium. The aquarium is also home to four harbor seals at this time, 2 females and 2 males (Jessica Seal, Donnelly, DaVinci, and Hermes). Jessica Seal was rescued from Kitsilano Beach in 2019 after being discovered to have been shot in the head by birdshot and blinded as a result.
Indo-Pacific finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides VU; Narrow-ridged finless porpoise, Neophocaena asiaeorientalis VU, (spp. asiaeorientalis - Yangtze finless porpoise CR, ssp. sumameri - East Asian finless porpoise (sunameri) NE) Spectacled porpoise, Phocoena dioptrica DD
But its history as a fish camp dates to 1925, according to a sign at the restaurant. Clark's was known for its steak and seafood entrees, including Mayport peel-and-eat shrimp, clams, snow crab ...
The Black Sea harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena relicta) is a subspecies of the harbour porpoise common in the Azov, Black, Marmara, and Aegean Seas. It is the only representative of the family in the fauna of these areas and is considered a narrow-range relict subspecies.
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