On the Flip Side
Male and Female dolphins are called _________________.
Bulls and Cows
Baby whales are called _________________.
Calves
Seahorses are fish. True or False.
True
Similar to most fish, seahorses have a swim bladder, which helps them float due to its balloon-like nature, they breathe through their gills, and have fins to help them swim.
Referred to as the “King of the Coral Reefs”.
Napoleon Wrasse
Referred to as the “Lung of the Sea”.
Seagrass
They release oxygen into the water through photosynthesis.
A group of dolphins is called ___________________.
Referred to as the “Canaries of the Sea”.
Beluga Whales
- They exhibit a complex communication repertoire of whistles, clicks and chirps.
Baby Seahorses are called ______________.
Fry
Known as the “devilfish” because of their horn-shaped cephalic fins which gives them a devil appearance.
Manta Ray
The largest reef system on Earth.
Great Barrier Reef
You can even see it from space.
Dolphins cannot swim backward. True or False.
True. That is why, it makes them difficult to escape fishing nets.
Whales are Mammals. True or False.
True
- Whales produce milk to feed their young. They are warm-blooded. they do not have gills. They breathe through nostrils, called a blowhole, located right on top of their heads.
Male Seahorses carry the baby during reproduction. True or False.
True
Wrasse are protandrous hermaphrodites. True or False
False
They are protogynous hermaphrodites. Settled as a juvenile, they all start as female. Females then transition to male in the wild as harem conditions and the environment allow. As females transition, they become a transitional male, or sometimes called a sub-male.
When water is too warm, corals will expel the algae (zooxanthellae) living in their tissue causing the coral to turn completely white. This is called ___________.
Coral Bleaching
Layer under the skin of dolphins that keep them warm.
Blubber
(It provides insulation that helps conserve body heat)
The largest living mammal.
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) - it can grow to 90 or more feet and weigh as much as 24 elephants! That’s more than 330,000 pounds (150,000 kg).
The largest of all fish.
Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Can grow to 12m and weigh as much as 40 tons.
Like sharks, rays are ovoviviparous. True or False.
True
Manta rays grow their embryos internally and nourish them from a yolk sac before giving birth to a live and well-developed pup.
When a coral bleaches, it is dead. True or False
False
Coral can survive bleaching, however under stress condition, they are subject to mortality (deprived of zooxanthellae = deprived of food source, therefore coral begins to starve.
Dolphins are mammals, not fish. True or False.
True
Baby dolphins get nutrient from their mother’s milk. They nurse for the first 1 – 3 years until they start to play with fish and eventually start eating as their regular meal.
Regarded as the loudest animals on the planet.
Sperm Whales - capable of making sounds up to 230 decibels. This is louder than the sounds of jet engines, which are about 150 decibels. Like other whales, sperm whales communicate with one another through sound.
Whales are cold-blooded mammals. True or False.
False
Despite living in the ocean and being surrounded by cold-blooded species such as fish, whales are warm-blooded marine mammals.
Many species of pufferfish are potent because they carry a highly potent toxin called ____________ which is usually found in their ovary and liver.
Tetrodotoxin
Fisheries Administrative Order (FAO) that prohibits on the collection, harvesting, gathering, selling and or exporting brown algae and seagrass.
FAO 250 series 2014.
(Prohibition on the Collection, Harvesting, Gathering, Selling, and/or Exporting of Brown Algae (Sargassum spp.), and Seagrass)