The Animal Project
Grey seal
Otter
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Coastal animals
An Otter is a semi-aquatic mammal carnivore indigenous in the UK along the coasts. The Otter species include a total of 13 species which all belong to the Mustelidae family. The Otter ,named for its love for water derived from old English meaning water, has a rather thin, long, streamlined able to glide through water at great speeds which supports it while hunting. Otters usually hunt from 4 to 5 hours every day however mothering Otters may hunt for considerably more.
The grey seal, scientifically known as Halichoerus grypus (translated into hooked-nosed sea pig), are commonly found around the coasts of Britain butmainly, around Scotland. It is a rather large seal
Weighing in at roughly from 370–680 lbs heavier than the Bengal tiger and on average a length of 2 to 3 metres. The Grey seal a least concerned species and hunts a wide variation of animals usually fish including: Cod, gadids, flatfish and herring; also known to eat Octopus and Lobster.
The basking shark scientifically known as Cetorhinus maximus are a vulnerable species of fish and can weigh up to 7 tones and reach lengths of 26 ft. This humongous fish is the world’s second largest fish and visits the UK to filter feed on plankton. You can mostly, find these fish from May to September in the Uk. The Basking shark distributes in every ocean a part from the Indian Ocean. The Basking shark usually described as a gentle giant belongs to the Cetorhinidae family. The largest Basking shark ever recorded was reported in Canada 1851 with a huge length of 12.27 metres and weighing at an estimate total of 19 tones. There are only three plankton-feeding species and the Basking shark is one of them. These sharks are regularly injured and even killed by boat strikes and entanglement in ropes as well as nets.
Dolphins are distributed across the Atlantic ocean, the Pacific ocean and areas in the Indian ocean. Dolphins are mammals more specifically marine mammals (A warm-blooded vertebrate animal which females gives birth to live offspring and feed their young milk provided by females). Dolphins belong to the Delphinidae family and vary from 120cm to 950cm weighing on average at 75kg. This carnivore can travel at up to 30 mph and adult dolphins eat up to 4% to 5% of their body weight per day which include different species of fish and Squid. Dolphins are extremely intelligent animals in fact they're the world’s second most intelligent creature with humans only first. With a brain 25% heavier than our own have centuries of evolution and has a sense of the future and part of the dolphin brain associated with processing emotional information is particularly expanded. It also has a developed neocortex (part of the cerebral cortex concerned with sight and hearing in mammals thought to be the most recently evolved part of the cortex.
Basking Shark
Dolphins
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