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Marine Mammals & Birds

Explore the fascinating world of marine birds and mammals, including penguins, pelicans, seals, and whales. Learn about their unique adaptations for life in the ocean and the impact of human activities on their populations.

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Marine Mammals & Birds

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  1. 009b Marine Mammals & Birds

  2. Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata • Class Reptilia • Class Aves (birds) • Class Mammalia

  3. Class Aves

  4. Birds Evolution http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~bio336/Bio336/Lectures/Lecture5/dinobird.jpg http://www.phyletisches-museum.uni-jena.de/images/archaeopteryx_berlin_1864.jpg

  5. Class Aves Characteristics • Warm blooded • Feathers and wings • Hollow bones • Horny bill • Lungs have air sacks • Hard egg shell

  6. Marine Birds • Only 3% of all bird species • Evolved from different groups of land birds • Spend significant part of life at sea • Feed on marine organisms

  7. Marine Birds • Must nest on land

  8. Marine Birds • Salt secreting glands • Webbed feet for swimming (not all)

  9. Marine Birds • Dense waterproof plumage (except commorants and some terns)

  10. Marine Birds • Migrations (not all) • Arctic tern - 24,000 mi roundtrip between Arctic and Antarctica • Sooty shearwaters - 40,000 mi/yr

  11. Penguins: • 17 species found in southern hemisphere • Spends 75% of lifetime in water Fairy (aka Little blue) penguins – up to 16 in (recovering from oil spill) Emperor penguins - up to 45 in

  12. Penguins • Southern hemisphere only (Galapagos south to Antarctica)

  13. Penguin Adaptations • Heavy, solid bones for diving • Watertight feathers (up to 70 per sq. in.) • Blubber for insulation • Oil gland for coating feathers • Black & white counter shading • Deep divers • - 500 m, 15 min. • Paddle-like feet • Streamline, fusiform body • - 15 mph • Social

  14. Penguin Adaptations • Don’t fly in air, but swim very well (fly through the water) • Wings act as flippers King penguin Adelie penguins Emperor penguins

  15. Penguin Adaptations • Eyes better adapted for underwater vision than air • Adapted for colder waters and air temps Black-footed penguin (aka African, Jackass) Gentoo penguin

  16. Penguin Prey • Larger penguins eat fish, squid • Smaller eat large plankton (krill) • Mostly feed near surface • Some dive to 1800+ ft, 22 mins Galapagos penguin

  17. Penguin Nesting Gentoo penguin Magellanic penguins King penguin

  18. Penguins Rockhopper penguin Macaroni penguins Yellow eyed penguins

  19. Altruism

  20. Nests on pack ice

  21. Rookery

  22. Marine Birds Tubenoses • Albatrosses, shearwaters, and petrels Storm petrel Shearwater Albatross – longest wingspan

  23. Marine Birds Pelicans and web-footed birds • Cormorants, frigates, gannets Brown pelican Cormorant NOAA Gannet Frigate NOAA

  24. Marine Birds Gulls • Jaegers/skuas, terns, puffins, razorbills Herring gull Least tern Horned puffin

  25. Marine Birds Feeding strategies

  26. Marine Birds Beak shapes:

  27. Marine Birds Shorebirds – beak length

  28. Marine Birds Shorebirds • Sandpipers, plovers, coots Sandpiper Godwit Hawaiian coot

  29. Pacific Golden Plovers

  30. Marine Birds Shorebirds • Herons, egrets Great blue heron Black-crowned night heron Great egret

  31. Marine Birds Shorebirds • Swans, geese, loons • Ducks, coots, grebes, mergansers Common merganser Wood duck Mute swans

  32. Marine Birds Birds of prey • Eagles, ospreys

  33. Human Impacts • Pollution – pesticides, PCBs, metals Bioaccumulation, biomagnification

  34. Class Mammalia Whales & Dolphins Polar bear Sea otter Seals & sealions manatee Dugong

  35. Return to the Oceans • Mammals have returned to the oceans multiple times • Adaptations • vivipary • suckling young • thermoregulation • feeding • diving • osmoregulation • We’ll look at adaptation in marine mammals from the least to the most

  36. Adaptations for diving • Exchange a large amount of air on each breath • Up to 90% in each breath (humans exchange about 20%) • Blood with more oxygen carrying capacity • Heart rate slows • Blood flow shunted • Higher concentration of myoglobin in the muscles • Collapsing lungs • Dive with no air in contact with blood vessels to avoid problems of nitrogen being forced in

  37. Fusiform Shape and Streamlining Evolutionary Convergence

  38. Two basic bioenergetic strategies used by animals : • Endothermy “warm blooded” • Ectothermy “cold blooded”

  39. Thermoregulation Concurrent exchange Countercurrent exchange

  40. Marine mammals Characteristics of marine mammals: • Warm-blooded • Breathe air • Have hair (or fur) • Bear live young • Females have mammary glands that produce milk for their young

  41. Marine mammals: Order Sirenia • Sirenian characteristics: • Large body size • Sparse hair all over body • Vegetarians • Toenails (on manatees only) • Includes: • Manatees • Dugongs

  42. Manatee & Dugong • Most complete transition to marine life along with whales and dolphins • Related to the elephant, but common ancestor didn’t look like either of them • Once many more species around • Large layer of blubber • Origin of the mermaid myth • Herbivores • Nostrils on top of snout have valves to keep water out • Both species have one calf at a time • Tend to have a single calf every 3 years

  43. Dugong • Location: coastal and inland waters of the western Indo-Pacific region • Dugongs are exclusively marine and have a dolphin-like tail • Dugongs tend to dig seagrass rhizomes • Predator includes tiger sharks

  44. 10,000 Dugong Range

  45. Family Dugongidae Dugong dugong Steller's Sea CowtHydrodamalis gigas Discovered 1741, extinct 1768. 8.9 ft, 551-661lbs 30ft, 4.4 tons

  46. Manatee • Location: Florida, Central and South America • Manatees have paddle-like tails and frequent freshwater • Manatees tend to crop and grab with prehensile lips • Manatees are larger than dugongs • Few predators • Threats: • Careless boaters • Habitat loss

  47. Manatee 9.8 ft, 800-1200lbs 3,000 in U.S.

  48. Relationship between Sirenians and elephants (mtDNA) Asian elephant African elephant tmammoth tmastadon tStellar’s sea cow Dugong Ancestral mammals West Indian manatee Brazilian manatee West African manatee Other mammals 80 60 40 20 0 Million of years before present

  49. Marine mammals: Order Carnivora • All members of order Carnivora have prominent canine teeth • Includes: • Sea otters • Polar bears • Pinnipeds (flipper-footed) • Walrus • Seals • Sea lions/fur seals Hawaiian Monk Seal

  50. Sea Otter

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