Pinniped & Cetacean ID

Pinniped & Cetacean ID

Marine Mammals of the Sonoma Coast Jazzy Dingler & Dr. Sarah Allen What is a Mammal? • Species are grouped/separated by the degree to which they are thought to be related – Species = “kind” of animal • Class Mammalia (>4,000 species) – Warm-blooded – Have hair – Females: • Give birth to live young • Have mammary glands that secrete milk Marine Mammals • Any mammal that makes the ocean its home for part OR all of its life. • Often complex social structures – Communication, female groups, etc. • Taxonomy – Order Cetacea (whales, dolphins, & porpoises) • Parvorder: Odontoceti - Toothed whales • Parvorder: Mysticeti - Baleen whales – Order Carnivora • Family: Mustelidae - Sea & Marine Otters • Family: Ursidae - Polar Bear – Suborder Pinnipedia • Family: Phocidae – True Seals • Family: Otariidae – Fur seals & sea lions • Family: Odobenidae – the Walrus – Order Sirenia (manatees & the Dugong) Photo Pat Morris Form Follows Function: Comparative Anatomy & Physiology • Morphology: Relationships among structures Photo Richard Allen – Specialized body forms – Modified appendages – Modified feeding structures (e.g., teeth) • Physiology: Way in which a body part functions – Heat retention (fur/blubber) – Length of nursing period & milkfat content – Molt on land or at sea – Diving response (e.g., avoid decompression sickness) – Migratory behaviors • Cetaceans cetus “large sea creature” – No hind limbs Photo NOAA – Blowhole for breathing • Pinnipeds pinna "fin" & pes/pedis "foot“ = “wing-footed” or “fin-footed” • ALL give birth and nurse on land • Sea otters mustela “weasel” • rely on fur to keep warm (no blubber layer) • shallow coastal waters Toothed whales & dolphins - Odontoceti •Teeth: feed on fish, squid, mammals •One blow hole •Males larger than females •Asymmetrical skull •Biosonar •5 families & increasing Photo Robert Pitman Dolphins – Delphinidae Beak Curved dorsal fin Conical teeth Pacific White-sided dolphin Porpoises – Phocoenidae Round head – no beak Triangular dorsal fin Spade shaped teeth Short-beaked common dolphin Harbor Porpoise Long-beaked common dolphin Dall’s Porpoise Northern right whale dolphin © Sophie Webb Baleen whales - Mysticeti Sperm whale • Baleen: forage on krill & fish • Two blow holes • Symmetrical skull • 3 families Gray whale Humpback whale North Pacific Right Whale © Sophie Webb Sophie Webb Rorquel - Family Balaenopteridae • Median notch (Tail) Blue whale • Rorqual is Norwegian for “furrow” • Long, sleek bodies • Small dorsal fin • 25-100 parallel, pleated throat grooves (ventral pleats) run from the tip of the lower jaw back to the belly area. © Sophie Webb Blue Whale - Balaenoptera musculus • Largest animal on earth • Calf is >20 ft • Baleen 3ft • Feed on fish and krill Humpback whale Humpback Whale - Megaptera novaeangliae • Humpback- distinct arching back • Large wing-like flippers • Ballerinas of the sea • Longest single migration of any animal • True singing whales – last ½ hr and © Sophie Webb repeated for days How do rorquel whales eat? © Sophie Webb Pacific Gray Whale - Eschrichtius robustus •Only species in the family Eschrichtiidae •Bodega Head - Whale Watch! •One of longest migrations • Shortest baleen (cream-white in color) • No dorsal fin • Friendly whales Photo Chris Johnson How do gray whales eat? http://www.arkive.org/gray-whale/eschrichtius-robustus/video-08a.html Toothed Whale Communication & Biosonar Identify objects 360 ft – 10 miles Sperm whales ➘ Offshore © Sophie Webb Baleen Whale Song TED ED Why do whales sing? - Stephanie Sardelis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xr9BYhlceA Dual life – marine & terrestrial Photo from web Otariidae – Sea Lions & Fur Seals California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) Steller Sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus) Guadalupe Fur Seal (Arctocephalus townsendi) • External ear flap • Articulated hips • Long front & rear flipper • Sexual dimorphism Phocidae – True Seals Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga angustirostris) Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) • No external ear flap • No articulated hips • Short front flipper Sue VanDerWal.

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