Marine Mammals:
What are marine mammals?
Marine mammals are mammals that mainly live in the ocean or depend on the ocean for food. This means, the marine mammals are vertebrate animals that breath air, females give live birth and produce milk to feed the young, have hair or fur, and are warm-blooded. There are five groups of marine mammals: 1.manatee, dugong, and sea cow; 2. polar bear; 3. pinniped - seal, sea lion, and walrus; 4. sea otter; and 5. cetacean - whale, dolphin, and porpoise.
External Links:
- Blue Whales (ADF&G)
- Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska, Second Edition
- Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (NMFS)
- Marine Mammals (NetVet)
- Marine Mammals Committee (Sierra Club)
- National Marine Mammal Laboratory Homepage (NMML)
- Ocean Facts on Marine Mammls (The International Year of the Ocean 1998, NOAA)
- Pinniped Bycatch Information for the Northwest and Northeast Pacific(United Nations FAO Areas 61 & 67)
- The Marine Mamammal Center, CA, USA - A non-profit organization charged with the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of marine mammals, including the science of marine mammal diseases, health and welfare, and the education of the public in the protection of marine mammals and their habitats.
- Whale facts by Enchanted Learning
- Whales - whale facts, information, pictures, postcards, and sounds
Interesting Finds:
- Do whales suffer from the bends? (Added 2004-12-30)
- Secrets of the whale riders - Crablike 'whale lice' show how endangered cetaceans evolved. (Added 2005-09-19)
PMEL Publications on Marine Mammals:
Listed below are direct links to abstracts of PMEL articles relating to marine mammals beginning 1968 to the present, using PMEL's Publication Information Search Engine: