aquatic mammal


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Related to aquatic mammal: aquatic bird
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Noun1.aquatic mammal - whales and dolphinsaquatic mammal - whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals
eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
cetacean, cetacean mammal, blower - large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals
sea cow, sirenian, sirenian mammal - any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs
pinnatiped, pinniped, pinniped mammal - aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers
flipper - the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming
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Now, unless the sandbank had been submitted to the intermittent eruption of a geyser, the Governor Higginson had to do neither more nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour.
KARACHI -- Efforts to save the dolphin that had got stranded in Clifton's shallow waters a day earlier apparently paid off as an expert team could not find any clue to the aquatic mammal on Sunday after carrying out a survey of the beach.
DURING THE THREE YEARS she spent as an aquatic mammal researcher with the Mamiraua Institute for Sustainable Development in the Amazon, Iriarte made almost 200 trips like this down the river, searching for these fish, and for the remains of butchered dolphins.
Chinese officials are keen to avoid a repeat of the 'baiji', or Yangtze dolphin, the river's only other aquatic mammal, which since 2006 has been considered extinct in a huge conservation setback for China.
Chinese officials are keen to avoid a repeat of the "baiji", or Yangtze dolphin, the river's only other aquatic mammal, which since 2006 has been considered extinct in a huge conservation setback for China.
They waddle toward an inland sea, and somewhere beneath its glimmer, some aquatic mammal (let's call him Bill), scavenges the rotting hide of a whale.
inunguis, MAMMALIA: SIRENIA) is an endangered aquatic mammal endemic to the Amazon basin, and there is no information concerning the stress responses in this species.
CELEBRATE SNOOTY, the oldest living manatee in captivity, with a hand-crafted desert ironwood sculpture ($6.99 and $14.99, shown) after visiting the iconic aquatic mammal at Parker Manatee Aquarium at the South Florida Museum.
Having trammeled the environment in Venezuela, the oil industry moved on to the Middle East, where it encountered more mangroves and an aquatic mammal called the sea cow or dugong, cousin of the Lake Maracaibo manatee.
'Australia's iconic platypus is an aquatic mammal which lays eggs'--
The Baiji are the first large aquatic mammal believed to be driven to extinction in more than fifty years since the extinction of the Caribbean Monk Seal around 1952.
It was the first large aquatic mammal species known to have gone extinct since the 1950s.

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