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When you come back to work after the weekend and are trying to figure out how to do this very job
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Whales and dolphins (cetaceans) live in close-knit social groups, have complex relationships, talk to each other, and even have regional dialects—much like in human society.
Cetaceans have sophisticated social and behavioral traits similar to those found in human culture.
Social and cultural traits have been linked to brain size and expansion—also known as encephalization.
Amazing 🌟
Human resistance to the power of water elements 🏄♂️🌪🌊💥
Breathtaking 🔥
💙 Blue Button also known as Porpita Porpita
These marine animals are made up of specialized individuals called zooids that work together to function as a single unit.
An octopus is chasing a crab.
The octopus is a typical ambush predator. Its diet includes mollusks, crustaceans, fish, and plankton. It grabs the prey with its hands, then pulls it to its mouth and bites the victim with its beak. In this case, the poison from the octopus' salivary glands enters the wound.
😃Delightful sea feathers 🪶
An order of colonial coral polyps from the subclass of octopods. Most of the 200 living species live at great depths, only a few are common in coastal waters.
✨ Mesmerizing beauty
How a documentary film about the underwater world is shown inside a giant spherical screen in Las Vegas.
🙂Orca 🐋
The killer whale belongs to the dolphin family and is considered a predatory mammal that inhabits almost the entire water area of the World Ocean.
Interesting facts about killer whales
- Killer whales never attack people first. Perhaps such attacks were not recorded because people do not swim in the waters where killer whales live.
- Female killer whales live on average 10-15 years longer than males.
🎣The traditional ancient practice of stilt fishing continues to live on the southern shores of Sri Lanka.🌍✨💧
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💙 Dwarf sea hare
The nervous system of a sea hare consists of only 20,000 nerve cells. They are so large that they can be seen with the naked eye.
The tube fan worm Sabellastarte spectabilis is also nicknamed the vacuum cleaner worm for its ability to remove organic particles and improve water quality, for which it is adored by aquarists.
In the wild, this worm previously lived only in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, but currently it is also found on the coasts of Africa, Mozambique and the Gulf of Mexico.
This large worm can reach 80 mm in length and 10–12 mm in width. It lives in a hard, leathery tube from which protrudes a gill crown of branched tentacles forming a train.
The cilia on the tentacles catch organic particles as they swim by and guide them along mucus-filled grooves towards the mouth. Tentacles are also used as gills for gas exchange
The magnificent toadfish Sanopus splendidus is found in the Atlantic Ocean, its size averages from 25 to 40 cm, and its Latin name is derived from the Greek words saino - “shake tail” and pous - leg. These are bottom-dwelling predatory fish that wait in ambush for prey.
These fish belong to the ray-finned family and, unfortunately, to the category of endangered species
☺️White dolphin 🐬
A species of dolphin found in the rivers of the Amazon basin.
Did you know these facts about dolphins?
- Dolphins used to live on land, but then they evolved and went into the water. Their fins used to be finger-shaped, scientists have come to this conclusion.
- Dolphins communicate with sounds that are inaudible to the human ear.
🤓Octopoteuthis deletron 🦑
When attacked by an enemy, the squid can throw away the tentacle where it has grabbed onto. At the same time, the fallen limb will twitch and glow, attracting as much attention as possible.
Unlike octopuses, which immediately lose the entire tentacle, deletron can discard it in small fragments.
😮The largest white shark is Deep Blue 🦈
White sharks, or great white sharks, are among the largest predators on the planet. Their average length is about 5.5 meters, and their weight is about 1900 kilograms.
Did you know about these facts?
- The frilled shark's gestation period lasts three and a half years - longer than that of the elephant.
- Shark eyes have eyelids, but for some reason these fish don’t use them.
- Sharks know how to block pain impulses so as not to feel pain.
Sharktail ray
The distribution area of which covers the warm-water regions of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans (from South Africa to the southeastern part of the Sea of Japan), reaches a length of 3 m and a mass of 225 kg.
Its main food is bottom invertebrates. Reproduction occurs by ovoviviparity.
😲Manatees
Manatees are members of a genus of large aquatic mammals that are grouped into the family Trichechidae (manatees), the sirenian order. In nature, there are 3 species of manatees and one possible: Amazonian, American, African and dwarf. Another name for manatee is sea cow.
Sea lemon clam 🍋
A slug, but one that lives in salt waters. Scientific name: Doris pseudoargus. The translation of the second word coincides with the popular name “lemon”. However, it has not yet become popular. So far, few people except specialists know about the animal.
⭐️A starfish resting on the coast of the Indian Ocean.⭐️
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🤓Humpback whale 🐳
A species of marine mammals of the minke whale family, part of the order baleen whales.
Did you know these facts about humpback whales?
- Average life expectancy is 40-50 years
- Humpback whales can sing. During the mating season, the "singing" sounds evolve every year and are even passed down through generations.
- The love aria of a humpback whale can last a whole day.
🧐Sea ducks 🦆
Relatives of sea acorns. They are distinguished by the presence of a fairly long stalk with which the animal is attached to the substrate, a larger size of the calcareous shell (up to 5 cm) and a more bizarre coloring.
🥰Melibe leonina
A type of marine mollusk. These creatures are excellent hunters thanks to their transparent body and wide mouth with large tentacle-like teeth.
Surprisingly, this animal emits a pleasant floral aroma when taken out of the water.
😊Humpback whales use bubble “nets” to hunt 🐳
The animals surround their prey - usually salmon, herring or krill - and begin to blow air bubbles, which drive the fish into a tight circle from which it is no longer able to escape.
Titicaca whistler Telmatobius culeus is a tailless amphibian endemic to Lake Titicaca on the border of Peru and Bolivia (about 3800 m above sea level). Inhabits warm coastal areas of lakes, where temperatures exceed +10°.
Lives in relatively cold water with plenty of oxygen, as a result has a low metabolic rate, and small lungs indicate that most respiration occurs through the skin. Typically, this frog does not use its vestigial lungs.
Let's remember why amphibians acquired lungs in the first place? Correctly, to compensate for the lack of oxygen in water with atmospheric air. But here’s the catch: at an altitude of 3800 meters the air is very thin! Where can I use the lungs...
Since the amphibian breathes through its skin, it needed as much of this skin as possible. Therefore, the animal turned from a frog into a sharpei and acquired a bunch of folds.
This frog is about 15 cm long. For some reason, evil people also call it a zombie frog...
Bladderwort Utricularia is an aquatic insectivorous plant, devoid of roots and bearing trapping vesicles. Each bubble is equipped with a hole, closed by a valve that opens inward, as a result of which small aquatic animals can freely penetrate into the bubble, but cannot swim back out. When they die, they serve as food for the plant.
In 2011, researchers from France and Germany recognized bladderwort as the fastest predatory plant in the world: prey is drawn into a trap in less than a millisecond.
Pemphigus is distributed throughout the world, being absent only in Antarctica and a number of oceanic islands.
The plant overwinters in the form of spherical buds. In favorable conditions at home, it can stop feeding on living organisms and begin to develop a root system, in what!