Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Herd

Seahorses are tiny fishes that are named for the shape of their head, which looks like the head of a tiny horse. There are at least 50 species of seahorses. You’ll find them in the world’s tropical and temperate coastal waters, swimming upright among seaweed and other plants. Seahorses use their dorsal fins (back fins) to propel slowly forward. To move up and down, seahorses adjust the volume of air in their swim bladders, which is an air pocket inside their bodies. Tiny, spiny plates cover seahorses‘ bodies all the way down to their curled, flexible tails. The tail can grasp objects, helpful when seahorses want to anchor themselves to vegetation. A female seahorse lays dozens, sometimes hundreds, of eggs in a pouch on the male seahorse’s abdomen. Called a brood pouch, it resembles a kangaroo’s pouch for carrying young. Seahorse young hatch after up to 45 days in the brood pouch. The baby seahorses, each about the size of a jelly bean, find other baby seahorses and float together in small groups, clinging to each other using their tails. Unlike kangaroos, baby seahorses do not return to the pouch. They must find food and hide from predators as soon as they’re born.
Hippocampus Type: Fish Diet: Carnivore Group Name: Herd

It’s not a waterlogged herd of unicorns—it’s a pod

Get pictures and fun facts about eight words for groups of animals.
It might look like zebras in a herd are biting each

Meet the extinct relatives of today’s elephants.
Male mammoths would leave the herd at about age 10.

Walruses have long tusks and a prominent mustache. These large marine mammals are found near the Arctic Circle. They are extremely social and snort and bellow loudly at their companions. During the mating season they are quite aggressive. Walruses have wrinkled brown and pink skin, long, coarse whiskers, flat flippers, and lots of blubber on their bodies to keep them warm in the cold Arctic water. They can slow down their heartbeat to withstand the chilly water temperatures and to help them stay under water for as long as ten minutes. Their long tusks are useful in many ways. They use them to pull their enormous bodies out of frigid waters, and seem to walk on their tusks. They also use their tusks to break breathing holes into ice from below. Tusks are found on both males and females and keep growing throughout their lives. These tusks are actually canine teeth and can grow to be about three feet (one meter) long. Their whiskers are very sensitive and help the walruses find their favorite meals, such as clams, way down in the deep, dark ocean floor. Their whiskers are longest at the corners of their mouth. Only Native Americans are currently allowed to hunt walruses, as the species‘ survival was threatened by past overhunting. Hunters in the 18th and 19th centuries captured walruses for their tusks, oil, skin, and meat and now there aren’t any walruses in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and around Sable Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Type: Mammals Diet: Carnivore Group Name: Herd

Adult females and young travel in herds, while adult
Type: Mammals Diet: Herbivore Group Name: Herd

Reach like a giraffe! Roar like a lion! Balance like a flamingo!
After about three weeks, the adults herd young flamingos

Norway is a narrow country in northern Europe. It shares the Scandinavian Peninsula with Sweden and Finland.
They herd reindeer.

Grassland habitat facts and photos
EastVillage Images, Shutterstock Grassland Habitat A herd

Native People of the American Great Basin
The Nez Perce tribe once owned the largest herd of