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A couple of facts :D

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Elephants can communicate via vibrations, they have these fatty pads within their feet which is also what allows them to walk quietly, these pads can easily pick up vibrations. Deer, cattle, camel and goats are more closely related to dolphins and whales then they are with horses.

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Saving Marine Animals that Are NOT Cute

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Examples include panda bears, wolves, elephants, tigers, etc. They don't invoke the pathos of the tragic salmon or the merriment of a playful porpoise. We hear about the problem with charismatic land species. It's those species that either have a powerful personality or a cute face that endear people to them and garner news attention.

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Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The two main chapters cover Marine Mammals (Orca; Whales; Dolphins and Porpoises; Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal; Rarer Marine Mammals) and Seabirds (Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Fulmar, Strom-Petrels, Phalaropes, Alcids, Red-billed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, South Polar Skua, Jaegers, Gulls and Terns, Rarer Seabirds).

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California’s Autumn Seas

10,000 Birds

It was the start of the shark season, which meant I saw my first Great White Shark attacks on Northern Elephant Seals , but it was also the best season for whales. California Sea Lions porpoised through the clear water. The seas often seemed far calmer, and full of life in early September. And there where whales.

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My First West Coast Pelagic Trip

10,000 Birds

Pacific White-sided Dolphins , 120 or so Humpback Whales , Northern Right Whale Dolphins , Blue Whales , Fin Whales , and Harbor Porpoises were all spotted to say nothing of Stellar’s Sea Lions , California Sea Lions , and a Northern Elephant Seal. Sabine’s Gulls are far too wonderful for this picture to represent them.

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