Walrus

Diving Mammals There are many different types of aquatic mammals such as pinnipeds ,whales, dolphins, seals, otters, beaver, muskrat, hippopotamus and walrus. These diving mammals don't breathe underwater as fish do, so their respiratory systems had to protect the body from the surrounding water; valvular nostrils and an intranarial larynx exclude water while breathing and swallowing. To navigate and detect prey in murky and turbid waters, aquatic mammals have developed a variety of sensory…

physical traits have served specific functions in contributing towards different organism reproductive success. Not every trait is advantage for an organism. Each species has different traits that work only for that species like the hugeness of a walrus could not benefit a spider money. Evolution are dramatic changes that happened one step at a time. The theory of Evolution does not say “organism from one species population suddenly produce organisms from another.” It also does not say that…

Lewis was a writer and was born on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, United Kingdom. He died January 14, 1898 in Guilford, United Kingdom. Some poems that Lewis wrote are Jabberwocky,The Hunting of the Snark, and The Walrus and the Carpenter. Some people that influenced Lewis Carroll are Alice Liddell and Hans Christian Andersen. Lewis wrote¨ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland¨ and ¨Through the Looking-Glass.¨ He went to school at Christ Church (Oxford) Rugby School, Richmond School, Yorkshire. At…

The Arctic Angel Out of all of the animals on Earth today, none of them can amount to being as fascinating and adorable as the Harp Seal. The Harp Seal is an aquatic mammal that is related to the Sea Lion and Walrus (¨Harp Seal¨). These seals live in the Northern Hemisphere, in and around the Arctic Sea, as well as in the North Atlantic Ocean (¨Harp Seal¨). There are many interesting facts about Harp Seals, ranging from reproduction, behaviours, appearance, and even their unique lifespan. Two…

The Lewis chessmen are 78 ornately carved ancient chess pieces. Made from walrus ivory, carved with extreme skill, the 78 pieces consisted of eight Kings, eight Queens, sixteen bishops, fifteen knights, nineteen pawns and twelve rooks. The rooks in particular show almost a comedic side of the chess pieces, with solders called berserkers with wide expressive eyes biting at their shields. The variation found between the pieces show that these chess pieces likely originated from about 5 different…

probably wondering how they could used it. There are multiple purposes for this. Sometimes they would be used for celebrations or for religious ceremonies. They also could be used to see the animals so they could seek and kill. The device was made up of walrus skin with people holding tightly on the edges to launch the person up into the air. The first official modern trampoline was made in 1934 at the university of Iowa. The whole purpose of it at the time was to train astronauts, freestyle…

The Beatles embarked on a highly publicised trip to the region of Rishikesh in Northern India in February of 1968. The reason for their joint venture was, principally, to attend a transcendental meditation course taught by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose exclusive seminars they had previously attended in London and Wales. The images of the four men and their wives at the train station leaving Britain for India made headlines all over the international press, and greatly spread the idea of…

Introduction As described in The Saga of Erik the Red, Greenland was first settled around 985 AD by former Icelander Erik the Red and his group of followers. Erik was exiled from Iceland in 982 AD for murder, so he journeyed to the west. He settled at the currently known Eastern Settlement, found at the tip of Greenland, claiming a piece of land for himself. Some of his group continued farther north and settled at what is now known as the Western Settlement, farther north on the western side of…

W. Jefferey Bolster’s book, “The Mortal Sea”, is viewed by many as an explanation of marine ecosystem depletion by the hands of the fisherman with a desire for more. With stories that end in such tragedy or environmental degradation, it often requires readers to place blame or vilify a player in this story, and that villain is most commonly made out to be the fishermen. This accusation would not be a careless one, since it was the fisherman that physically participated in this mass depletion of…

the years really shows the greatness of the human mind. Many forms of trampolines were created over time. The history of the trampoline is very interesting. The first known style of trampolines was around four thousand years ago. Eskimos would use walrus skin to toss each other in the air similar to firefighters. A circus lore tells of a French trapeze artist named, Du Trampolin, it is believed he studied the trapeze safety…