Lesson 5
The manatees way of greeting each other
What is "kissing?"
Name the 3 kinds of fishes
What is "bony fishes, jawless fishes and cartilaginous fishes?"
The nickname for manta rays
What is the "devilfish?"
The scientific name for a manatee or dugong
What is "sirenians?"
The hagfish's defense when cornered
What is "throw up slime?"
The manatees preferred water temperature
What is "warm?"
Or you can say more than 68 degrees
The nose of a fish
What is the "nares?"
Dermal denticles translates to
What is "skin teeth?"
The line of sensitive pores from the head to the tail
What is the "lateral line?"
Name a type of ray
What is "the possibilities are endless. We'll see?"
The walrus that had to be put down because she sank too many boats
Who is "Freya?"
The tail fin on a fish
What is a "caudal fin?"
The term for a shark being in a trance, typically just after you've flipped him
What is "tonic immobility?"
The flap covering the gills of a fish
What is the "operculum?"
The way you can tell how long a shark is
HINT: Tooth
What is "measure the tooth. For every inch, the shark is 10 feet?"
The place where one male pinniped mates with all the other females in his area
What is a "rookery?"
The fish term for laying eggs
What is "spawning?"
A whole bunch of predatory fish eat a bunch of other fish and get super crazy
What is a "feeding frenzy?"
Ovoviviparous translates to
What is "egg-live-bearing offspring?"
The part of a fish that helps them stay buoyant
What is the "swim bladder?"
The pier in San Francisco where more than 1700 sea lions reside
(Name the pier number)
What is "Pier 39?"
Name all 5 stages of a fish
What is "egg stage, larval stage, postlarval fry stage, juvenile, adult?"
Name one order of sharks
What is "(Squatiniformes, Squaliformes, Pristiophoriformes, Hexanchiformes, Heterodontiformes, Orectolobiformes, Lamniformes, Carcharhiniformes)?"
The name for the way pinnipeds walk
What is "galumphing?"
The disease that fish get if you leave them out for too long (eyes will bulge out and so will organs)
What is "barotrauma?"