ruxree · 6 months ago
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Meet Wyszega!! (put it in google translate to hear the pronunciation)
Kalina is his girlfriend!
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alphynix · 9 months ago
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Harbor Porpoises at Auke Bay, Juneau
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fishyfishyfishtimes · 5 months ago
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More mermaid things! I mentioned in the merfolk overview post that mermaids can use magic to become two-legged, other humans can do the same but in reverse! The spell isn't the exact same sort that created merfolk so long ago, but it does the job quite handily. Normal two-legged humans tend to gain an aquatic mammal lower body if they don't have other kinds of merfolk in their family.
In my previous art post I introduced Sirpa, who is a zander-harvour porpoise hybrid, a rare feature in half-animal people overall. Above we have Sirpa's parents, and then the mishmash of features that Sirpa inherited from them. Plus Sirpa's daughter who inherited one (1) teeny tiny fin!
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bonefall · 2 years ago
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Idk how often the rewritten clans would go near the ocean, but I imagine not enough to see things like orcas (who do occasionally show up around Britain)
So imagine, for whatever reason is needed, some cats go by the ocean and see this MASSIVE black fish move through the waves, and then realise there’s a whole POD of them 0.0
Idk, just think it would be a pretty fun idea!
What's more likely is that they'd see porpoises! Specifically harbor porpoises. Occasionally orcas and minke whales are seen from the coast of Wales, but the general area where I've put the Clans is close to a shallow part of the Irish Sea where these little guys are common,
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[ID: A small gray dolphin-like creature leaps out of the water. It's called a Harbor Porpoise]
When they discover the ocean and settle in the Lake territory, the Clans visit the beach once a year to collect salt for medicinal and culinary purposes. It's not too far-fetched they'd see one.
Maybe to you and me who are spoiled by the knowledge of big whales it would seem unimpressive, but this is BY FAR the largest “fish” they’d ever seen. It would be humbling and awe-inspiring to a little cat.
It would be cute if Midnight was able to see them so impressed by a porpoise, honestly. With her knowledge of megafauna, it would be endearing to see their reaction to something she’s long since stopped appreciating. Remind her of why she loves the cats so much.
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havingawhaleovatime · 11 months ago
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rosy-avenger · 2 years ago
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Please observe Wikipedia's image for the size of a harbor porpoise.
[ID: a black-and-white line drawing of a harbor porpoise, alongside the solid black silhouette of a human in scuba gear. The porpoise is drawn with a vague happy smile. The human figure is behind and above the porpoise and appears to be reaching menacingly towards it. Caption beneath reads "Size compared to an average human." /end ID]
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pinnipediia · 1 year ago
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Harbor Porpoise Calf & Ensuing Necropsy | 7/25/23 & 8/17/23
My first solo carcass collection!
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I got a call from a state park about someone who had reported “what looks like a dead dolphin or false killer whale”. The ranger had gone out to see for themselves but they told me that they couldn’t find it. I—knowing it was likely a harbor porpoise and not wanting to potentially miss a collectible carcass if there was a chance it was still there—drove the 16 minutes up to the beach and walked my ass about a mile up to the area where it was reported to have been spotted. I was doubting myself so I left the trash bag in my trunk and just brought gloves, but eventually I found it!
On the way, I saw a young dying pelican which was interesting but unfortunately we don’t deal with seabirds so there was nothing I could do to euthanize it.
I saw the little dorsal fin poking out of the sand in the distance and knew I’d found it. While I’d been walking I’d even seen the shoe prints of what must have been the ranger that went out to look for it going there and back, but I noticed that the prints stopped a decent distance away from the carcass, so I assume they misunderstood the location, but I’m glad I trusted my gut to travel out there.
Unfortunately, because I didn’t bring the trash bag up the beach with me, I had to carry this carcass by hand about a mile back. Due to it being, yknow, a sandy carcass, I didn’t really want to carry it back directly over my shoulder or against my chest, so I ended up having to walk back with it switching between being held raised a bit above my shoulder and held in front of me. It seriously worked my biceps…
I kept repeating “it’s for science” to myself as i walked back lmao
When I reached the beach access area there were still plenty of people around, and I felt like a criminal holding a dead body lmao. A group of (i counted) 12 kids of varying ages ran up to me to ask about it and it turned into a nice little educational moment. I got a few more questions as I carried it up the beach access but eventually I made it back to my car and put it in a bag and in the trunk.
Turns out the little guy was only 23 lbs so… I guess the way you carry something seriously makes a big difference.
Notably, this guy was super fresh and didn’t even have baby teeth yet, so how in the world he had several tiny invertebrates in his stomach when he was supposed to only be drinking milk still is beyond me!
Necropsy Notes | 8/17/23
General Comments: Carcass previously frozen, neonate, vibrissae present; some pink foam in trachea; several small items in stomach—appeared to be invertebrates; most organs unremarkable.
Sex • M
Weight • 23 lbs
Snout to melon • 2.0 cm
Snout to angle of mouth • 8.5 cm
Snout to blow hole • 9.0 cm
Snout to center of eye • 11.5 cm
Snout to ant. Insertion of dorsal fin • 38.0 cm
Snout to dorsal fin tip • 48.5 cm
Snout to fluke notch • 86.0 cm
Snout to anterior insertion of flipper • 20.0 cm
Snout to center of genital aperture • 43.25 cm
Snout to center of anus • 58.0 cm
Flipper Length • 17.5 cm
Flipper width • 6.5 cm
Fluke width • 22.0 cm
Dorsal fin height • 6.0 cm
Girth:
Axillary: 51.0 cm
Maximum: 53.0 cm
Anal: 31.0 cm
Blubber thickness •
Dorsal: 1.25 cm
Lateral: 1.0 cm
Ventral: 1.5 cm
Tissues Collected
Blubber
Kidney
Liver
Blood
Colon with feces
Brain
Kidney for lepto pcr
Heart
Lung
Muscle
Stomach contents
Adrenal gland
Diaphragm
Esophagus
Heart
Intestine
Kidney
Liver
Lung
Pancreas
Skeletal muscle
Skin in ethanol
Stomach
Thymus
Thyroid
trachea
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jzfieldnotes · 2 months ago
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i think you're still a harbor porpoise. pacifica
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goddamnshinyrock · 11 months ago
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in the latest episode of the Smithsonian Sidedoor podcast, the host goes to great lengths to describe how elusive and hard to spot river otters are, meanwhile I've seen them in a city park?? during broad daylight??? in a major metro area???? many times????? She even interviews an otter researcher who is like 'I've been studying them for years and still only actually seen one in person at the national zoo :('
like girl, move to seattle maybe? idk what to tell you, I've seen them while walking my dog or birding or even just getting coffee.
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inatungulates · 11 months ago
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Eastern Pacific harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena vomerina
Observed by dhardwick3, CC BY-NC
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antiqueanimals · 2 years ago
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Marine Mammals of Southcentral Alaska: A Pocket Guide. Written by Janet R. Klein. Illustrated by Gary Lyon. 1984.
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heedra · 1 year ago
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i have seen literally so many wild marine mammals this month
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forkandknife · 2 years ago
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I think I saw a harbor seal play fighting with a northern fur seal today
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arsanatomica · 5 months ago
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Majestic Breaching Intensifies
Photo of harbor porpoise by emma luck, twitter: emmaluck22
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alphynix · 11 months ago
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Most mosasaurs all had very similar body plans: they were streamlined scaly monitor-lizard-like marine reptiles with four rounded paddle-shaped flippers, and many of them also had large shark-like tail fins.
But Megapterygius wakayamaensis here seems to have been doing something a bit different.
Living towards the end of the Cretaceous, about 72 million years ago, in the waters covering what is now western Japan, this mosasaur was around the size of a modern orca, roughly 6m long (~20').
Unlike other known mosasaurs its flippers were huge, bigger than its own head and distinctively wing-shaped, with the back pair being larger than the front. This is an arrangement oddly reminiscent of the unrelated plesiosaurs, and may suggest a convergent sort of highly maneuverable "underwater flight" swimming ability – but unlike plesiosaurs Megapterygius also still had a powerful fluked tail, so how exactly all of its fins worked together is still unknown.
It's also the first mosasaur known to preserve potential evidence of a dorsal fin. Some of its back vertebrae show a change in orientation at the point where a fin base would be expected to be, closely resembling the vertebrae shape of cetaceans like the modern harbor porpoise.
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