The document discusses marine mammals and their evolution from land-dwelling ancestors. It notes that marine mammals like cetaceans, sirenians, otters, pinnipeds, and polar bears evolved from ungulate or caniform ancestors and adapted to life in the sea by developing hydrodynamic bodies, appendages, and adaptations for temperature control. It also states that many marine mammal populations are vulnerable or endangered due to past commercial exploitation and concludes by stating that polar bears can swim up to 74 kilometers in a single day.
The document discusses marine mammals and their evolution from land-dwelling ancestors. It notes that marine mammals like cetaceans, sirenians, otters, pinnipeds, and polar bears evolved from ungulate or caniform ancestors and adapted to life in the sea by developing hydrodynamic bodies, appendages, and adaptations for temperature control. It also states that many marine mammal populations are vulnerable or endangered due to past commercial exploitation and concludes by stating that polar bears can swim up to 74 kilometers in a single day.
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The document discusses marine mammals and their evolution from land-dwelling ancestors. It notes that marine mammals like cetaceans, sirenians, otters, pinnipeds, and polar bears evolved from ungulate or caniform ancestors and adapted to life in the sea by developing hydrodynamic bodies, appendages, and adaptations for temperature control. It also states that many marine mammal populations are vulnerable or endangered due to past commercial exploitation and concludes by stating that polar bears can swim up to 74 kilometers in a single day.
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PowerPoint presentation according to dangerous animal. My favourite dangerous animal is rat Rabbit Marine mammals are a group of roughly 120 species of ocean- dwelling mammals or depend on the ocean for food. Marine mammals evolved from land dwelling ancestors, but not all from the same ancestor, Cetaceans and Sirenians are thought to descendant from an ungulate ancestor, while the otter, pinnipeds and polar bear are descended from a caniform ancestor. They have adapted to the life in the sea and share some characteristics, like a generally large size, hydrodynamic body shapes, appendages and several adaptations for controlling warmth. Many populations of mammals living in the water are vulnerable or endangered throughout a history of commercial exploitation for blubber, meat, ivory and fur. Mammals living in the water breathe air, while for example fish extract oxygen from the water through their gills. Did you know polar bears can swim 74 kilometers in a day?