Anatomy
The part of the body that Cetaceans use to breathe.
What is the blowhole?
The largest cetacean/marine mammal in the world.
What is the Blue Whale?
The layer of fat pinnipeds (and other marine mammals) have in order to stay warm.
What is blubber?
The primary component of Sirenians’ diet.
What is seagrass?
The federal management authority of (almost) all cetaceans and pinnipeds.
What is NOAA?
The organ that enables the natural sonar used by dolphins and whales.
What is the melon?
Cetaceans use this to find other animals and objects.
What is echolocation?
The species of pinniped other than seals and sea lions.
What is the Walrus?
The biggest threat/predator of Sirenians.
What are humans?
The term for a marine mammal autopsy.
What is necropsy?
The key trait that all marine mammals have other than hair/fur on their bodies, breathing air with lungs, giving live birth, and having mammary glands.
What is being warm blooded?
The two groups of cetaceans.
What are baleen whales and toothed whales/what are Mysticetes and Odontocetes?
The group of Pinnipeds that have external ears and have a rotating hip bone that allow them to walk/run on land.
What are Sea lions?
The name for sirenian offspring.
What are calves?
The two marine mammals in the group Fissipeds.
What are polar bears and sea otters?
The location of sirenian mammary glands.
What is the armpit?
What are hippopotamuses?
The largest pinniped species.
What is the Elephant Seal.
The other species of Sirenians that is not the manatee.
What is the Dugong?
The country in Asia that still practices commercial whaling.
-What is Japan?
The term for Pinniped whiskers.
What is vibrissae?
The most endangered cetacean in the world.
What is the Vaquita?
The natal coat phocids (seals) are born with.
What is lanugo?
Sirenians’ closest land relative.
What are elephants?
The year the Marine Mammal Protection Act was created.
-What is 1972