Marine mammals comprise over 130 living and recently extinct species in three taxonomic orders. The Society for Marine Mammalogy, an international scientific...
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reliance on marine environments for feeding and survival. Marine mammal adaptation to an aquatic lifestyle varies considerably between species. Both cetaceans...
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of cetaceans Archaeoceti List of whale vocalizations List of marine mammal species Mammal classification The Society for Marine Mammalogy considers Eden's...
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The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) was the first act of the United States Congress to call specifically for an ecosystem approach to wildlife management...
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This is a list of mammal species found in the wild in the American state of Florida. One hundred sixteen species of mammals are known to inhabit, or have...
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and around 5,937 recognized living species of mammal. Mammalian taxonomy is in constant flux as many new species are described and recategorized within...
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extirpated species), and the coast is visited by nearly 30 marine mammal species. 11 species or subspecies of native Virginian mammals are listed as Endangered...
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Sperm whale (redirect from Social behavior of sperm whales)
their definitive list of marine mammal species. The sperm whale is the largest toothed whale and is among the most sexually dimorphic of all cetaceans....
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The U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program (NMMP) is a program administered by the U.S. Navy which studies the military use of marine mammals - principally bottlenose...
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(LC): 3,306 species Data deficient (DD): 872 species Recently extinct mammals are defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)...
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