Stereolepis Gigas Research Paper

can be 22.5 feet, and their tanks are around 150 feet long. Also, the whale can get diseases.

Smallmouths have both external fertilization and external development. Feeding for smallmouth tops when the temperature is around 78 degrees and starts to slow down once the temperature goes below 40 degrees. The male always guards the eggs and the babies which are known as fry. The spawning usually occurs in April or May unless the temperature stays cold than it can be delayed. The first person to describe a smallmouth bass was Lacepede is 1802. The fry hatch out of their eggs in about a week and then continue to develop for another week. Young smallmouths are fed upon by yellow perch, Northern pike or muskellunge. Bigger bass are only eaten by northern pike, musky but the main predators of smallmouth bass are humans. The lifespan in the wild is normally about seven years, but some will live up to 20 years. In captivity the average age is ten years. When the young hatch out of their eggs they are about 0.2 inches long, very easy prey for a variety of animals. Multiple females will spawn in the nest of one male and an individual female will spawn in more than one. Smallmouth dance and bite each other, this is their mating ritual. In New York the record smallmouth was 8 pounds, 4 ounces caught out of Lake Erie on 6/4/1995 by Andrew C Kartesz. Smallmouth bass are beginning to destroy Brooke trout fisheries and Atlantic salmon fisheries. The meat of a smallmouth is very firm and good tasting so many people catch the fish not only for the fun of the

Dallin Ashby, a graduated UF entomology master's student, normally spits crickets with his 11-year-old son Myles Ashby when they participate in BugFest. But this year, his 8-year-old daughter, Eliza Ashby, said she was going to try too.

The allusive bluefin tuna is one of the largest, fastest and highly sought after fish in the wild sea. The Bluefin tuna can weigh over half a ton, grow to over four metres in length, and dive to depths of 1,000 metres. They can reach speeds of 70 miles an hour and even raise their body temperature far above that of the surrounding water in order to traverse arctic waters. They are among the most ambitiously migratory of all fish, with some tagged bluefin being tracked swimming from North American to European waters several times a year. The bluefin tuna is unique, a perfectly adapted products of evolution. They are also dangerously close to becoming extinct (Brown). Today, the bluefin tuna has been fished out by 97 percent from pre-fishing

Biology: The average length of a Skipjack Tuna is 32 inches long (80cm) and weigh anywhere between 7-22 pounds (8-10kg). The current record for the biggest Skipjack Tuna weighs in at 76 pounds (34.5kg) and was 43 inches long (108cm). The colour of the top region is either dark blue or purple, and the lower region including the belly are primarily a silver colour with anywhere from 4-6 dark, broken lines that run across the body (FLMNH). The body shape is elongated and possesses a fusiform shape, meaning it is wide in the middle and tapers at both ends; it also possesses a bilateral symmetry. There are two dorsal fins present, the first consisting of around 14-16 spines. There is a small gap in between the two fins, and the second fin is

While the data on black sea bass is limited, scientists do know that they're "protogynous hermaphrodites," which is just a fancy way of saying bass born females can become males. As reported in Phys.org, http://phys.org/news/2015-07-bass-population-spawn-females-males.html

“Largemouth bass grow 4 to 6 inches during their first year, 8 to 12 inches in to years, 16 inches in three years” According to so and so largemouth can grow up to 4 to 6 inches (Jennings). They are green with dark spots that look like black stripes along both sides. The belly is a light greenish color, sometimes it could be white. The coloration of the fish depends on where it is living at the time if it is under heavy vegetation the fish will have a darker green color, if the fish is out in the open it will be a whiter green color. They have what looks to be a dorsal fin on the arch of their back. Their upper jaw sticks out much farther than their eyes do. “Fry, which are what the baby bass are called feed mainly insects or worms”(Citation). Larger fish prey upon smaller

The enchanting and comely sorceress Circe lived on the island of Aeaea. She welcomed Odysseus’ sailors to her feast, but when they became greedy and devoured everything, she turned them into pigs. They were treated like swine, placed in a pig pen and given fodder to eat. When Odysseus came to rescue his men, she tried to turn him also into a pig, but he would not succumb to her dark magic as he had been given a plant by Hermes to protect himself. Circe later went on to stay with Odysseus for several years, until he and his men pleaded with her to return home. While he was leaving, Circe told Odysseus only to descend to the Land of the Dead, and pay a visit to the blind prophet, Teiresias.

Black sea bass are fairly stout-bodied fish, with a long dorsal fin, and large pectoral and pelvic fins. The rounded tail sometimes has a long streamer trailing out from the top edge. Each gill cover has a flat spine near the outer edge. Mature males have a fleshy dorsal hump just anterior to the dorsal fin. The background color of the black sea bass (smokey gray, brown, or bluish black) is marked with darker patches and light speckles. The belly is only slightly lighter than the sides. Young sea bass are green or brown with a dark lateral stripe running from the head to the tail. Juvenile and adult black sea bass feed upon a variety of benthic invertebrates such as rock crabs, hermit crabs, squids, and razor clams. Black sea bass adults typically

Microcebus berthae are one of the most fascinating animals on earth. Even though they have so many disadvantages tied to them they are still able to exist. They are labeled as being the smallest primate on earth but they are still able to fight against their predators and survive. Every day for them will never be the same as their action, body type, even to their hunting style they are able to adapt to the cycle of life and its seasons. With not much research done on this specific type of lemur, there are so many missing facts about them but they certainly have garnered much attention.

100,000. This number might seem large, but with 96.4% of the population declining after fisherman started hunting for these animals, the coveted fish might not be around for much longer. The Thunnus SPP, or better known as the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, is one of the largest bony fish in the world. At one and a half Mr. Zunic’s in height and 200 bags of potatoes in weight (6-10 feet, 1500 pounds according to animalplanet.com), the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna is almost invincible, to predators in the fish class of vertebrates that is. The Atlantic Bluefin Tuna is critically endangered due to overfishing. One fish was once sold for $1.76 million due to the fish’s delicy. The Atlantic Bluefin Tuna is highly popular at high-end restaurants around the world. Boy, a tuna roll sure does sound great right about now.

A longtime resident of greater Springfield, Massachusetts, Demetrios Panteleakis holds both a juris doctor and bachelor of arts in psychology from Western New England College and a master of science in criminal justice with distinction from the American International College. He has also obtained a certificate in real estate financing from Boston University and real estate brokerage licensure in both Massachusetts and Connecticut. Over the course of his career in commercial real estate, Demetrios Panteleakis has held senior administrative positions with the MassMutual Financial Group and the OPAL Real Estate Group.

The venus flytraps common ancestor is the water wheel.The water wheel is a carnivorous plant similar to the venus flytrap but the water wheel has long arm like structures that latch around the prey until the prey is choked to death.The venus flytrap has evolved very differently the venus flytrap has a mouth like opening shaped in a V that captured insects but in the opening has a sticky liquid that absorbs the insects until the insects are digested.It also has changed to sit upright and horizontal instead of lying like a dead flower.The venus flytrap may have evolved but the water wheel and the venus flytrap mostly eat the same things such as small beetles,spiders,snowbugs and ect.

The geoduck is native to the west coast of North America. The shell of the clam ranges from 15 centimetres (5.9 in) to over 20 centimetres (7.9 in) in length, but the extremely long siphons make the clam itself much longer than this: the "neck" or siphons alone can be 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length. The geoduck is the largest burrowing clam in the world.[3] It is also one of the longest-living animals of any type, with a lifespan of up to 140 years; the oldest has been recorded at 168 years

Physarum Polycephelum, literally, “many headed slime” is most often found as a single celled, multinucleate myxomycete (Gott, nd). In other words, it's a slime mold made up of many interwoven strands that work together as one body (Speer, Waggoner, 1997). It thrives in a damp, cool, shaded habitat, like mossy logs or tree bark in a forest (Gott, nd) and grows at about 1 cm per hour (Ball, 2008). Scientists typically create this environment by using damp paper and dark spaces. It’s typically yellow, and is a heterotroph, which means it cannot synthesize its own food. It survives on a diet of fungal spores and bacteria. To eat its food it covers it and secretes enzymes (Gott, nd). Physarum Polycephelum grows by creating a network of tubes that