Certain types of fish and turtles serve as indicators of changing seasons or exceptional events.
They can also be swallowed by marine animals like whales and turtles, causing them to starve.
The animals have no fear of humans, so your children will swim with dolphins and turtles and play near seals.
They fished with woven grass nets or hooks made from shells, and used harpoons of wood and bone to hunt dugong and turtles.
While some scientific research has been done, no systematic survey of the fishes and turtles of the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve has ever been completed.
Just an hour from Khasab are dive sites with schools of blue and yellow Indian Ocean angelfish, Arabian butterfly fish, snappers, lionfish, groupers, stingrays and turtles.
The greatest of these is that, as fiery and horrible as the impact would have been, the survivors included many seemingly sensitive animals like birds, frogs and turtles.
Whales, dolphins, sharks and turtles are among species found there.
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The waves conceal whales, dolphins and sea turtles, and the western beaches are covered with armies of blue-backed soldier crabs that rear up on their hind legs and flee in panic at the approach of a human foot.
"If people continue with this spate of killing nesting turtles and destroying their eggs, they'll be destroying generations of turtles and their offspring and pushing these wonderful reptiles into extinction, " says project officer of the Ghana Wildlife Society, Gerrard Osei Boakye.
Saratoga fish and pignosed turtles, complex depictions of myths, and simple handprints are layered on top of each other, the evidence of generations of storytellers and listeners.
Guests can also swim with whale sharks, or observe hawksbill and green turtles hatching on the nearby Mafia Island.
"Transformers and Ninja Turtles are really boys' toys, " Ms. O'Hara observed.
Residents of this Indonesian island have hunted and butchered the turtles for their meat and raided their nests for their eggs until few of the animals remain.
Oiled birds have been collected and dolphins and sea turtles have been found dead, though officials cautioned they were still conducting tests to determine whether the deaths resulted from the spill.
There are at least 260 species of reef-building coral and 70 species of sponges, plus dugong (a manatee cousin), sharks, manta rays, and about 14 species of whale, dolphin, and sea turtles.
Plastics affect our health and the lives of the estimated 1 million seabirds, 100, 000 marine mammals and sea turtles that die every year when they entangle themselves in marine debris or ingest it.
Zach McCue of Clean Ocean Action, a coalition of more than 130 environmental organizations in New Jersey and New York, said the manufacture of thin-film plastic bags consumes millions of trees and barrels of oil, takes up space in landfills for a long time and is harmful to marine life, especially birds and sea turtles that ingest the bags, or pieces of bags, or get entangled in them.
In all, 44 species of Asian freshwater turtles and tortoises and three species of North American pond turtles were upgraded in the eyes of the convention, meaning that their trade will be more carefully regulated.
They also provide a habitat for fish and other species of ecological and commercial interest, such as orange roughy, swordfish, tuna, sharks, turtles and whales.
The Guardian is estimated to have damaged about 4, 000 square meters (about 43, 000 square feet) of the reef, a UNESCO World Heritage site that is home to about 500 species of fish and 350 species of coral, as well as whales, dolphins, sharks, turtles and breeding seabirds.
Other MIT engineers have designed robotic turtles and even a robotic fish, dubbed RoboTuna.
Some insurers even offer coverage on more exotic pets, including birds, rats, turtles and reptiles.
They included green, Kemp's ridley and hawksbill sea turtles, which are classified as endangered species.
The volunteers started thinking big: where would other sick and injured sea turtles go?
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Eagle rays, turtles and reef sharks whirl around in the sapphire sea.
Nondivers teach English, work in clinics, conduct surveys of endangered marine turtles and gather data on fish catches from more remote villages.
Fine sediment suspended in the water scatters sunlight, creating its famous shade of blue, while turtles and stingrays are clearly visible gliding along the sandy floor.
The new air base would be built on reclaimed land there, where sea turtles and marine mammals called dugongs now swim around coral reefs in turquoise blue waters.
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