porpoises in English

noun
1
a small toothed whale with a low triangular dorsal fin and a blunt rounded snout.
Irish waters are at least seasonally home to an impressive 24 species, ranging from the tiny harbour porpoise to the giant blue whales.
verb
1
move through the water like a porpoise, alternately rising above it and submerging.
the boat began to porpoise badly

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1. We’ll learn how porpoises find their way with sound waves.

2. Harbor porpoises Attracted to oil platforms when searching for food Date: March 18, 2021 Source: Aarhus University Summary: A large gathering of fish tempts harbour porpoises to …

3. Cetacean definition: Cetaceans are animals such as whales, dolphins, and porpoises

4. Cetacean is a word used to describe all whales, dolphins, and porpoises

5. The bodies of dolphins are more streamlined than those of porpoises.

6. Cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) form one of the most dramatically-derived group of mammals

7. Cetology is a type of science.It is the study of the cetaceans.It includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

8. Cetology is a type of science.It is the study of the cetaceans.It includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

9. A Cetacean is a member of the family of large aquatic mammals such as whales, dolphins, and porpoises

10. Body: Explain what whale Beaching is; Cetaceans are aquatic mammals and include whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

11. Basilosaurus was a type of extinct cetacean (this is the group containing whales, dolphins and porpoises)

12. Cetacean or whale any aquatic EUTHERIAN mammal of the order Cetacea, comprising the porpoises, dolphins and whales.

13. Cetacean: or whale any aquatic EUTHERIAN mammal of the order Cetacea, comprising the porpoises, dolphins and whales

14. Cetacea is the order or group of animals including almost all marine mammals – dolphins, whales and porpoises

15. The Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises) currently include 86 species that inhabit the world's oceans, lakes and rivers

16. White sharks also attack dolphins and porpoises from above, behind or below to avoid being detected by their echolocation.

17. The Order Cetacea is the group of marine mammals that includes the Cetaceans - the whales, dolphins and porpoises

18. Taxonomy: classification of Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises) Taxonomy is the scientific discipline used to define and group living things

19. Ambulocetus was a genus of early cetacean (the group containing whales, dolphins and porpoises) that could walk as well as swim

20. The Cetacean Community is the name chosen by the Cetaceans' self-appointed attorney for all of the world's whales, porpoises, and dolphins

21. What does Cetacean mean? Any of various marine mammals of the order Cetacea, including the whales, dolphins, and porpoises, having the general sh

22. Bycatch - unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species; "thousands of dolphins and porpoises and whales

23. Marine mammals however are abundant, with almost half the world's cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) and large numbers of fur seals reported in New Zealand waters.

24. Harbour porpoises are known to be susceptible to disturbance by vessel traffic and loud underwater sound sources, such as acoustic harassment devices associated with aquaculture operations.

25. One ingredient that Rosetti, the author of Noble Secrets, lists in 36 recipes is called Ambracan, which is a bilious secretion made from the intestines of sperm whales, dolphins, and porpoises

26. Cetacea is the order of mammals that includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Cetaceans are found throughout the world's oceans but most species types have specific or common ranges (Table 43-1).

27. Then the corkline holding the net at the surface of the water begins to be drawn in until it tightens around its load of fish, and, of course, the porpoises also.

28. Examples of Abaft in a Sentence Adverb the lookout in the crow's nest warned that there was an enemy frigate Abaft and bearing down hard on their ship Preposition a school of porpoises swam Abaft the …

29. Cetacean is the collective noun used to describe all 90 species of whales, dolphins and porpoises. The word Cetacean has its origins in Latin (Cetus) referring to a large sea creature and Greek (Ketos) meaning whale or sea monster.

30. Cetacean, (order Cetacea), any member of an entirely aquatic group of mammals commonly known as whales, dolphins, and porpoises. The ancient Greeks recognized that Cetaceans breathe air, give birth to live young, produce milk, and have hair —all features of mammals.

31. Any of various marine mammals of the order Cetacea, including the whales, dolphins, and porpoises, having the general shape of a fish with forelimbs modified to form flippers, a tail with horizontal flukes, and one or two blowholes for breathing

32. Other ships in the vicinity, however, began sighting porpoises and blackfish, leading Commander Frank G. Fahrion, Commander, DesDiv 3 in Anderson, to report over the high-frequency radio (TBS) to Morris that, in view of the fish sightings, the contact was a false one.

33. Extensive examination of the 11 concurrent harbour porpoise strandings found no definitive signs of acoustic trauma, but the cause of death could not be determined for six animals, and the possibility of acoustic trauma as a contributory factor in the deaths of the remaining five porpoises could not be ruled out (lesions consistent with both acoustic trauma and alternative explanations were observed; NMFS 2004).