Whale feces, the excrement of whales, has a vital role in the ecology of oceans, earning whales the title of "marine ecosystem engineers." This significant...
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Feces (or faeces; sg.: faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria...
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Whale meat, broadly speaking, may include all cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises) and all parts of the animal: muscle (meat), organs (offal), skin...
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Whaling (redirect from Whale hunting)
column via whale feces where it can contribute to primary productivity at the surface. In death, their carcasses can become part of a whale fall and sink...
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Plankton (section Whales and plankton)
plankton even in man-made environments. Of all animal fecal matter, it is whale feces that is the 'trophy' in terms of increasing nutrient availability. Phytoplankton...
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large area). Some specific types of feces that detection dogs have had success in identifying include killer whale feces, northern spotted owl pellets, and...
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Marine mammal (section Whale pump)
year. Whales defecate at the ocean's surface; their excrement is important for fisheries because it is rich in iron and nitrogen. The whale feces are liquid...
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and krill was found consistently throughout their feces which is an indicator that krill is in whale diets. Antarctic krill had an average iron level of...
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Whale conservation refers to the conservation of whales. Prior to the setting up of the IWC in 1946, unregulated whaling had depleted a number of whale...
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whale; they find the pool behind Clyde's house, along with a broken fence. While looking at the pool, they find whale feces, but see that the whale and...
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three different raw materials: whale oil, spermaceti oil, and whalebone. Whale oil was the result of "trying-out" whale blubber by heating in water. It...
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The sei whale (/seɪ/ SAY, Norwegian: [sæɪ]; Balaenoptera borealis) is a baleen whale. It is one of ten rorqual species, and the third-largest member after...
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Hvaldimir (redirect from Russian spy whale)
SL; Arnaud Haond, S (19 April 2022). "Feces DNA analyses track the rehabilitation of a free-ranging beluga whale". Scientific Reports. 12 (1): 6412. Bibcode:2022NatSR...
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determination of cetacean dietary intake through analysis of DNA samples from whale feces. During the 2010/2011 whaling season, the ICR was forced to halt its...
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Southern resident orcas (redirect from Southern Resident Killer Whale)
The southern resident orcas, also known as the southern resident killer whales (SRKW), are the smallest of four communities of the exclusively fish-eating...
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health risks arising from the oral contact with feces. Diseases which may be transmitted by contact with feces include: bacterial diseases including shigellosis...
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Kogiidae (redirect from Small sperm whale)
breviceps) and dwarf (K. sima) sperm whales. As their common names suggest, they somewhat resemble sperm whales, with squared heads and small lower jaws...
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column only a few tens of centimeters in vertical thickness Whale feces – The excrement of whales and its role in the ecology of the oceans Marine realm –...
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hippos and hippos are most closely related to cetaceans (whales and dolphins). Hippos and whales shared a common semi-aquatic ancestor that branched off...
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Whaling in Japan (redirect from Whale industry in Japan)
Japanese whaling, in terms of active hunting of whales, is estimated by the Japan Whaling Association to have begun around the 12th century. However, Japanese...
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Filter feeder (section Baleen whales)
American paddlefish, silver and bighead carps, baleen whales, manta ray and three species of sharks—the whale shark, basking shark and megamouth shark). Some...
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throat. Intestinal parasites and other organisms can also be carried in feces. Risk of sexually transmitted infection (STI) or parasitic transmission...
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and they spend most of their lives clinging to a host animal such as a whale, turtle, shark or ray. It is probably a mutualistic arrangement as the remora...
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monkeys and lemurs), the even-toed ungulates (including pigs, camels, and whales), and the Carnivora (including cats, dogs, and seals). Mammals are the only...
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a helical tusk on its upper left jaw. Odobenocetops, an extinct toothed whale, may have possessed similar asymmetrical dentition, though it differed from...
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Wildlife of China (section Whales, dolphins, porpoises)
of the porcupine including the brain, organs, fat, quills and even the feces can be used to make traditional Chinese medicine. Porcupines are raised...
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also forage on feces and vomit from the dolphins. The mutualistic relationship between the whalesucker (Remora australis) and the blue whale (Balaenoptera...
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eating poorly cooked food that contains cysts, by exposure to infected cat feces, or from an infected woman to her baby during pregnancy. Rarely, the disease...
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feeds, grows, mates, and releases eggs into the seawater in the host's feces. As the gut of a marine mammal is functionally very similar to that of a...
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of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered...
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