epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Mark Leiren-Young

CHAPTER TEN THE ULTIMATE EXHIBIT “The Museum having expended altogether a sum not much less than $17,000 in the whaling business, this is probably the last attempt that will be ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Cancelmo, Jesse [Cancelmo, Jesse]

Floating sargassum seaweed mats off Dry Tortugas serve as surface nurseries thriving with life. Pulley Ridge I have yet to document Pulley Ridge, an important reef in this region of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jackson, Jack;

Flame files shells are found only in the inner recesses of caverns, cracks and dark places. The red membrane seems to shimmer rhythmically when illuminated by divers’ lights. Beneath the ...

epub |eng | 2008-05-12 | Author:Kathleen M. Dudzinski & Toni Frohoff

At times dolphins may leap just for fun … and sometimes leaps become part of a game of keep-away or tag. Spinner dolphins are named for their spinning leaps. Not ...

epub |eng | | Author:Richard Ellis [Ellis, Richard]

The Caribbean reef squid, Sepioteuthis sepioidea, switches on the iridescence. Photograph © John Muhilly / SeaPics.com In their 1983 study of chromatic components in cephalopods, Cloney and Brocco wrote that ...

epub |eng | | Author:Richard Ellis

In other words, we’re all in this together: parrots, houseflies, killer whales, spiders, hippos, cassowaries, corals, crabs, dugongs, dingos, flamingos, anacondas, ants, bees, beagles, beetles, beavers, leopards, iguanas, ducks, platypuses, ...

epub | | | Author:David Kirby

23 Tilly’s Willy One of John Jett’s biggest regrets in his life was that on that December day in 1995 when his best friend, Jeff, got fired from SeaWorld, he ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:David Neiwert [NEIWERT, DAVID]

CHAPTER Seven Salmon, Boats, and Oil THE SUMMER OF 2013 WAS A PECULIAR YEAR—A WORRISOME YEAR—for whale watchers in the San Juan Islands, and it all came down to salmon, ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Rachel Smolker [Smolker, Rachel]

Andrew and I were out surveying dolphin groups. We came across the male triplet Trips, Bite, and Cetus, with Yogi, a female, and the males Realnotch, Hi, and Patches. Booboo, ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Alexandra Morton [Morton, Alexandra]

Chapter 12 Robin and I needed three things in a home port: whales, mail service, and playmates for Jarret. He was now two, and it didn’t seem fair to raise ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alan Rauch

An early publicity drawing from Marineland. Human systems of echolocation date back to the early twentieth century, but the term SONAR (SOund NAvigation and Ranging) was coined during the Second ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:John Hargrove & Howard Chua-Eoan [Hargrove, John]

8 Getting with the Artificial Program I was beyond excited to be a member of the special team that was assembled one spring morning in 2000 in San Diego. I ...

epub |eng | 2012-11-23 | Author:Christopher Kemp

The whale that washed ashore on Manpuriya beach had looked lean and sickly. Scientists from Sri Lanka’s National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency told reporters from the Daily Mirror ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2006-05-29 | Author:Casey, Susan [Casey, Susan]

AN HOUR LATER, PETER, KEVIN, AND I BOARDED JUST IMAGINE, TYING the whaler alongside. I realized immediately that it was even harder to climb between pitching boats of wildly varying ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sy Montgomery [Montgomery, Sy]

When I return to the aquarium, I find the last fish have been evacuated from the GOT. Aquarium engineers pulled the plug on the 200,000-gallon tank at 10 a.m., October ...