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- The caudal fins of adult zebrafish are supported by multiple bony rays that are laterally interconnected by soft interray tissue. (biologists.org)
- Here, we developed an experimental setup to measure the elastic properties of caudal fins in vivo by applying micro-Newton forces to obtain bending stiffness and a tensional modulus. (biologists.org)
- If you notice, 4 of the rays of the lower part of his caudal fins have broken off. (hubpages.com)
- Dorsal fins are located on the back. (wikipedia.org)
- A fish can have up to three dorsal fins. (wikipedia.org)
- The dorsal fins serve to protect the fish against rolling, and assist it in sudden turns and stops. (wikipedia.org)
- Wildlife biologists often use the distinctive nicks and wear patterns which develop on the dorsal fins of large cetaceans to identify individuals in the field. (wikipedia.org)
- Some species have further adapted their dorsal fins to other uses. (wikipedia.org)
- Some animals have developed dorsal fins with protective functions, such as spines or venom. (wikipedia.org)
- For example, both the spiny dogfish and the Port Jackson shark have spines in their dorsal fins which are capable of secreting venom. (wikipedia.org)
- Billfish have prominent dorsal fins. (wikipedia.org)
- Like tuna, mackerel and other scombroids, billfish streamline themselves by retracting their dorsal fins into a groove in their body when they swim. (wikipedia.org)
- Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dorsal fins . (wikipedia.org)
- Dragonets usually have two dorsal fins, the first having one to four spines. (encyclopedia.com)
- The dorsal fins of some males are large and high and have long rays, or supporting rods. (encyclopedia.com)
- There are two dorsal fins, with the first having three spines. (encyclopedia.com)
- Male dragonets use their long first dorsal fins for male-to-male fights and male-to-female courtship. (encyclopedia.com)
- That extinct animal actually had large, strong and mobile hind fins and an enlarged pelvis, suggesting that limbs in the front and rear evolved simultaneously. (washingtonpost.com)
- That went against the "front-wheel-drive" hypothesis that held limbs first evolved from front fins, while back fins stayed small , maybe even after fish transitioned to land. (washingtonpost.com)
- In the Late Devonian period about 350 million years ago, the first vertebrates to adapt to land were amphibians, and it is believed that their ancestors were primitive, now-extinct fish with fin-like limbs and belonging to the class Sarcopterygii. (titech.ac.jp)
- In my lab, we have been studying the developmental mechanisms responsible for the evolution of fins and limbs. (titech.ac.jp)
- Through research using catshark embryos, Tanaka's team revealed that the balance of the anterior (thumb side) and posterior fields in fin buds shifted as evolution progressed from fins to limbs. (titech.ac.jp)
- Regeneration epidermises of salamander limbs or teleost fins are known to express markers of developmental signaling pathways, including many secreted factors [ 8 , 14 ]. (prolekare.cz)
- The limbs had evolved from fins. (gopetsamerica.com)
- In order to understand how fins may have evolved into limbs, researchers led by Dr. Gómez-Skarmeta and his colleague Dr. Fernando Casares at the same institute introduced extra Hoxd13, a gene known to play a role in distinguishing body parts, at the tip of a zebrafish embryo's fin. (phys.org)
- Whether large or small- with fins, feathers or fur- animals are natural healing resources. (campwidow.org)
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- Inform students that all animals have one of three types of body coverings: fur, scales, or feathers. (education.com)
- Explain to your students that animals with feathers are called birds . (education.com)
- Learn the difference between fur, feathers and scales with this adorable animal worksheet! (education.com)
- Practice your child's science skills with this fun worksheet, which will help your child determine which animals have feathers, and which have fins. (education.com)
- Feathers, Fins, Fur and more. (absolutewrite.com)
- But when you look at a modern fish, it's hard to imagine just how how fins like theirs evolved into the hands, wrists and fingers that you and any other four-limbed animal on earth has. (washingtonpost.com)
- Researchers examined the switches controlling genes related to the development of fins in the gar fish and hands in mice. (washingtonpost.com)
- Ten years ago, University of Chicago organismal biologist Neil Shubin discovered the fossils of the 375-million-year-old Tiktaalik roseae, a water-to-land transitional fish that had limb-like fins. (washingtonpost.com)
- The shape, position and flexibility of fins display a high variability among fish taxa that accounts for a broad diversity of the locomotor functions. (biologists.org)
- This in turn is highly facilitated by carrying out numerical simulations of swimming fish and their flapping fins. (biologists.org)
- First Monaco, and then France supported the ban on blue fin tuna and now the Brit's are joining the campaign to save the endangered fish. (treehugger.com)
- Forelimbs and hindlimbs of animals evolved from pectoral and pelvic fins of ancestral fish. (titech.ac.jp)
- Their study revealed how the muscles for pectoral fins and pelvic fins of cartilaginous fish are formed. (titech.ac.jp)
- It was believed that the muscles of the paired fins (collective term for pectoral and pelvic fins) of cartilaginous fish were derived from the epithelial dermomyotome directly extending into the fin bud, and not migratory muscle precursors. (titech.ac.jp)
- Tanaka and colleagues then used embryos of the catshark, a cartilaginous fish, to verify the mechanism of paired fin muscle formation. (titech.ac.jp)
- She graduated from Oxford University with a PhD in animal behaviour and, working first at the University of Glasgow and then at the University of Edinburgh, she developed a research programme investigating fish cognition and behaviour. (resurgence.org)
- The fin whale's diet is unusually diverse for a cetacean , ranging from small crustaceans , such as copepods and krill , to fish and squid . (britannica.com)
- How this fish along with other cold-blooded animals, such as lizards, newts and frogs , can replace complex body parts with the ease of magicians has eluded scientists. (livescience.com)
- Supporting this notion, a tail fin is made up of several different types of cells arranged into an intricate structure, making it the fish version of an arm or leg. (livescience.com)
- Marine forensics might help scientists ease the pressure: Patterns buried within shark fins' DNA could reveal what region the fish came from-ultimately targeting those populations for conservation. (popularmechanics.com)
- Fins first evolved on fish as a means of locomotion. (wikipedia.org)
- Fish fins are used to generate thrust and control the subsequent motion. (wikipedia.org)
- Fish, and other aquatic animals such as cetaceans, actively propel and steer themselves with pectoral and tail fins. (wikipedia.org)
- Unlike dolphins, these fish do not feel the bubbles, because they have bony fins without nerve endings. (wikipedia.org)
- Fish use multiple fins, so it is possible that a given fin can have a hydrodynamic interaction with another fin. (wikipedia.org)
- The researchers found that males clearly preferred females with a larger pelvic fin and that pelvic fins grew in a more disproportionate way than other fins on female fish. (wikipedia.org)
- Fins are usually the most distinctive anatomical features of a fish . (wikipedia.org)
- Apart from the tail or caudal fin , fish fins have no direct connection with the spine and are supported only by muscles . (wikipedia.org)
- Fins located in different places on the fish serve different purposes such as moving forward, turning, keeping an upright position or stopping. (wikipedia.org)
- Most fish use fins when swimming, flying fish use pectoral fins for gliding, and frogfish use them for crawling. (wikipedia.org)
- In many fish, the pectoral fins aid in walking , especially in the lobe-like fins of some anglerfish and in the mudskipper . (wikipedia.org)
- The paired pelvic or ventral fins are typically located ventrally below and behind the pectoral fins, although in many fish families they may be positioned in front of the pectoral fins (e.g. cods). (wikipedia.org)
- The pelvic fin assists the fish in going up or down through the water, turning sharply, and stopping quickly. (wikipedia.org)
- Pelvic fins can take many positions along the ventral surface of the fish. (wikipedia.org)
- This fin is used to stabilize the fish while swimming. (wikipedia.org)
- It is frequently clipped off to mark hatchery-raised fish, though data from 2005 showed that trout with their adipose fin removed have an 8% higher tailbeat frequency. (wikipedia.org)
- Actinopterygians, the ray-finned fish show an evolutionary pattern of fine control ability to control the dorsal and ventral lobe of the caudal fin. (wikipedia.org)
- These fish have undergone significant developmental changes reducing their spinal cord, giving them a disk like appearance, and investing in two very large fins for propulsion. (wikipedia.org)
- The orange-fin anemonefish (Amphiprion chrysopterus ) is a marine fish belonging to the family Pomacentridae, the clownfishes and damselfishes, found in the Western Pacific north of the Great Barrier Reef from the surface to 20 m, to include the Pacific Ocean between Queensland, Australia, and New Guinea to the Marshall and Tuamotus Islands. (wikipedia.org)
- The tail fins are generally white or yellow and vary depending on the area of origin (fish in the area surrounding Fiji and Tonga have yellow tails, fish from the Marshall and Solomon Islands have white tails). (wikipedia.org)
- N. Ono, M. Kusaka, M. Taya, C. Wang, Design of fish fin actuators using shape memory alloy composites, Smart Structures and Materials: Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies, edited by Eric H. Anderson, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5388, (2004). (scientific.net)
- Fin whales feed on schooling planktonic crustaceans and a wide variety of small, schooling fish. (npolar.no)
- This fish has fairly long pectoral fins (6) , and dark red eyes (5) . (arkive.org)
- Sometimes, fin rot can be so severe that it also affects the body of the fish, eat it until it dies. (hubpages.com)
- Fish is the mostly widely consumed animal protein in the world and it's also the one of the most endangered, according to Schnell. (foodnavigator-usa.com)
- The loss of genes that guide the development of fins may help to explain how fish evolved into four-limbed vertebrates, according to a study. (gopetsamerica.com)
- The bony or cartilaginous bones that support the base of the dorsal fin in fish are called pterygiophores . (wikipedia.org)
- In development of the embryo in teleost fish, the dorsal fin arises from sections of the skin that from a caudal fin fold. (wikipedia.org)
- In these types of fish, the fins are made of 2 main components. (wikipedia.org)
- the caudal fin of a fish. (thefreedictionary.com)
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) will destroy more than one ton of contraband ivory in New York City on Friday, June 19 alongside conservation leaders including International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). (ifaw.org)
- These fish have four spines on the first dorsal fin. (encyclopedia.com)
- The process, sometimes referred to as DNA fingerprinting in humans, could be called DNA "fin-printing" for fish when a bit of tissue from a fin is used for the analysis. (bio-medicine.org)
- Fish have fins and gills, but they don't have necks. (livescience.com)
- It is an active, surface-dwelling fish that feeds on insects that have fallen into the water, aquatic insect larvae, and other small animals. (redorbit.com)
- The trading of shark fins is an issue that honest people can disagree on, and there are many cultural perspectives on this issue,' she wrote in an e-mail. (orlandosentinel.com)
- If a zebrafish loses a chunk of its tail fin, not to worry, it'll grow the fin back within a week. (livescience.com)
- Now a study has revealed some of the genes responsible for the cellular pathways that let a zebrafish restore its tail fin. (livescience.com)
- A team of scientists found this same signaling pathway also sparks the regeneration and subsequent growth of cells that make up tail fins in zebrafish . (livescience.com)
- Often the tail fin is used, but some aquatic animals generate thrust from pectoral fins. (wikipedia.org)
- Cavitation damage can also occur to the tail fins of powerful swimming marine animals, such as dolphins and tuna. (wikipedia.org)
- In particular, the fins immediately upstream of the caudal (tail) fin may be proximate fins that can directly affect the flow dynamics at the caudal fin. (wikipedia.org)
- Airplanes achieve similar results with small specialised fins that change the shape of their wings and tail fins. (wikipedia.org)
- Static tail fins are used as stabilizers Engineering fins are also used as heat transfer fins to regulate temperature in heat sinks or fin radiators. (wikipedia.org)
- Finlets may influence the way a vortex develops around the tail fin. (wikipedia.org)
- Fin whales are dark grey to brownish black in colour along the top of the body, while the throat, belly and undersides of the flippers and tail flukes are white. (nammco.no)
- Bone formation upon partial amputation of zebrafish tail fins. (innovations-report.com)
- The regenerating tissue (blastema) of a zebrafish tail fin after amputation. (innovations-report.com)
- Congress is considering toughening its 2000 ban on finning, in which fishermen chop off fins from a shark and throw it back into the ocean to die. (orlandosentinel.com)
- Another signaling pathway under the control of the so-called Wnt5b protein then turns down these genes, impairs cell growth and inhibits fin regeneration. (livescience.com)
- Here, we performed a large-scale, unbiased genetic screen for epithelial signaling deficiencies during the regeneration of amputated adult zebrafish fins, from which we identified several new mutants. (prolekare.cz)
- One gene identified from this screen disrupts a specific component of the extracellular matrix material Laminin, Laminin beta 1a, a factor that we find to be dispensable in uninjured adult animals but required for all stages fin regeneration. (prolekare.cz)
- Interestingly, fgf20a and igf2b ligand genes are induced within hours of fin amputation in mesenchymal cells, and perturbation of Fgf signaling via a mutation in the fgf20a ligand gene, or of Igf signaling by receptor inhibition, disrupts formation of the regeneration epidermis and subsequent bone regeneration [ 20 , 21 ]. (prolekare.cz)
- Zebrafish therefore are a favored animal model to study the cellular and molecular principles of organ regeneration. (innovations-report.com)
- We found that specific components of the Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase complex (NuRD) are required for fin regeneration in zebrafish. (biomedcentral.com)
- Transcripts of the chromatin remodeler chd4a /Mi-2, the histone deacetylase hdac1 /HDAC1/2, the retinoblastoma-binding protein rbb4 /RBBP4/7, and the metastasis-associated antigen mta2 /MTA were specifically co-induced in the blastema during adult and embryonic fin regeneration, and these transcripts displayed a similar spatial and temporal expression patterns. (biomedcentral.com)
- Altogether, our data suggest that specialized NuRD components are induced in the blastema during fin regeneration and are involved in blastema cell proliferation and redifferentiation of osteoblast precursor cells. (biomedcentral.com)
- Regeneration of the caudal fin proceeds through three main steps: 1) wound healing, 2) blastema formation, and 3) regenerative outgrowth, including differentiation and patterning. (biomedcentral.com)
- Fins and flippers are aquatically adapted appendages and typically aren't very useful in such an environment. (wikipedia.org)
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- Either of the anterior pair of fins attached to the pectoral girdle of fishes, corresponding to the forelimbs of other vertebrates. (thefreedictionary.com)
- The irony is that shark fin is flavorless -- its cartilage has a chewy consistency. (cnn.com)
- The soup uses only the fins' cartilage needles, which provide a gelatinous texture but no flavor. (orlandosentinel.com)
- The study suggests that consumption of shark fin soup and cartilage pills may pose a significant health risk for degenerative brain diseases. (miami.edu)
- We amplified a fragment of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene from shark fin, cartilage and meat, as well as ray gill plates and meat for DNA sequencing. (springer.com)
- Surprisingly, this led to the generation of new cartilage tissue and the reduction of fin tissue-changes that strikingly recapitulate key aspects of land-animal limb development. (phys.org)
- In addition, isolated BTs have been observed in various areas, including the head, body and fins ( Chen and Arratia, 1996 ). (biologists.org)
- Males are larger than females, have larger fins, an extended dorsal fin, and bolder color patterns on the body and fins. (encyclopedia.com)
- While shark finning is illegal in the U.S., current federal laws banning the practice do not address the issue of the shark fin trade, so shark fins are imported to the U.S. from countries with few or even no shark protections in place," notes Oceana. (treehugger.com)
- Shark fins are primarily derived through finning, a practice where by shark fins are removed at sea and the rest of the mutilated animal is thrown back in the water to die," said co-author Dr. Neil Hammerschlag, research assistant professor of Marine Affairs & Policy and director of the RJ Dunlap Marine Conservation Program (RJD) at UM. (miami.edu)
- I counted about 30 sets of fins, many of them still fresh. (greenpeace.org)
- They are primarily killed for their fins alone, to fuel the growing demand for shark fin soup, which is an Asia delicacy. (miami.edu)
- Not only does this work provide important information on one probable route of human exposure to BMAA, it may lead to a lowering of the demand for shark fin soup and consumption of shark products, which will aid ocean conservation efforts," added Hammerschlag. (miami.edu)
- Will this effect the demand for shark fin soup and other shark fin products worldwide? (miami.edu)
- The record haul was discovered in two containers from Ecuador, and highlights the continued demand for shark fin, which is served at wedding banquets in many Chinese communities. (yahoo.com)
- However, as the demand for shark fin continues to rise, so too does the price, and shark fins have become a hot commodity. (greenpeace.org)
- While their conservation becomes an ever more pressing concern, a major obstacle that hampers regulation is the mislabelling and/or misidentification of dried products or carcasses that have had fins removed. (springer.com)
- During courtship, the female cichlid, Pelvicachromis taeniatus, displays a large and visually arresting purple pelvic fin. (wikipedia.org)
- zf-tbx5 expression is restricted to the pectoral Fin bud, whilst zf-tbx4 transcripts are confined in the pelvic Fin bud. (nih.gov)
- Each consignment consisting of 13 tonnes broke the previous record seizure of 3.8 tonnes of controlled shark fins made in 2019," customs official Danny Cheung told reporters. (yahoo.com)
- In rock-hard, spinous fins the distal is often fused to the middle, or not present at all. (wikipedia.org)
- The results suggest a scheme for the fin-limb transition in which the distal autopods (digits) are neomorphic structures produced by unequal proliferation of the posterior part of an ancestral appendix. (nih.gov)
- The distal part of these cartilages articulate with the pectoral fin radials, and the proximal part articulate with the synarcual (fusion of the first vertebrae). (thefreedictionary.com)
- Early in the preflexion stage, melanophores occur on the distal ~50-60% of the pectoral fin but they become more concentrated near the margin with development and are only on the distal 10-20% of the fin during the postflexion stage. (thefreedictionary.com)
- During regenerative outgrowth, the blastema progenitor cells are maintained at the distal margin, while their daughter cells progressively redifferentiate in the proximal part of the fin regenerate. (biomedcentral.com)
- We found that in the zebrafish, the mouse Hoxd13 control element was capable of driving gene expression in the distal fin rudiment. (phys.org)
- As they swim, they use other fins, such as dorsal and anal fins, to achieve stability and refine their maneuvering. (wikipedia.org)
- Nevertheless, they cannot swim faster because the cavitation bubbles create a vapor film around their fins that limits their speed. (wikipedia.org)
- They found that about a quarter of the hammerhead fins on the Asian market came from the western Atlantic, where hammerhead populations have dropped by about 85 percent in recent years. (popularmechanics.com)
- Veterinary and medical scientists wonder if warm-blooded animals that evolved from these simpler creatures, might still have untapped regenerative powers hidden in their genes. (livescience.com)
- To compare the relative importance of Hox genes during fin versus limb morphogenesis, we cloned zebrafish (Danio rerio) HoxD and HoxA complex genes and analysed their expression during fin development. (nih.gov)
- Whole mount in situ hybridization revealed specific expression of these genes in the eye and Fin buds. (nih.gov)
- The paired pectoral fins are located on each side, usually just behind the operculum, and are homologous to the forelimbs of tetrapods . (wikipedia.org)
- Pectoral and pelvic fins are homologous to fore- and hindlimbs, respectively. (nih.gov)
- Following pectoral fin amputation, BT clusters regenerate after the initiation of revascularization, but concomitantly with a second wave of angiogenesis. (biologists.org)
- However, upon amputation the tissue beneath the wound initiates a massive bout of retinoic acid synthesis that is required to mobilize cell division in the fin stump. (innovations-report.com)
- Upon amputation, the caudal fin is fully restored after approximately 3 weeks. (biomedcentral.com)
- Upon fin amputation, epidermal cells rapidly migrate to protect the wound and form a wound epidermis. (biomedcentral.com)
- Animals with robust regenerative capacities are characterized by their flexibility to change gene expression in response to amputation. (biomedcentral.com)
- Is the Shark-Fin Trade Facing Extinction? (chinadigitaltimes.net)
- Clarke S, Milner-Gulland EJ, Bjørndal T (2007) Social, economic, and regulatory drivers of the shark fin trade. (springer.com)
- As director of the department of comparative medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the 52-year-old scientist, who holds doctorates in veterinary medicine and in pathology, studies the way similar diseases attack humans and animals. (baltimoresun.com)
- Which raises the question: does bird watching or being around animals in nature (that we can't touch) help humans emotionally too? (pawmanefin.com)
- A new study by University of Miami (UM) scientists in the journal Marine Drugs has discovered high concentrations of BMAA in shark fins, a neurotoxin linked to neurodegenerative diseases in humans including Alzheimer's and Lou Gehrig Disease (ALS). (miami.edu)
- The concentrations of BMAA in the samples are a cause for concern, not only in shark fin soup, but also in dietary supplements and other forms ingested by humans," says study co-author Prof. Deborah Mash, Director of the University of Miami Brain Endowment Bank. (miami.edu)
- The computer simulations provided an unprecedented view into the dynamics of the virus and someday could help researchers devise improved strategies to combat viral infections in plants, animals and even humans. (nsf.gov)
- We often hear about the biggest animals that would easily tower over humans twice, thrice, and some even ten times. (boredpanda.com)
- The world's fin dealers congregate at Alibaba.com , a publicly traded Chinese company partly owned by Yahoo that lists about 300 sellers. (orlandosentinel.com)
- females and young males have a dorsal fin that is about half that size and distinctly sickle-shaped (falcate). (britannica.com)
- One Canestrini scale was formed as an outgrowth of the second pectoral fin ray in males. (thefreedictionary.com)
- The first dorsal fin of males has a yellow swirl, and the second dorsal fin has a downward-pointing pattern of dark bands. (encyclopedia.com)
- Males defend their territories and females by displaying their fins. (encyclopedia.com)
- Males also begin courtship by displaying their fins to females. (encyclopedia.com)
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- This sea animal is notorious among marine biologists as a dolphin that has a problem with us. (listverse.com)
- The latter portion of the fin whale's scientific name, physalus , was once used in reference to all rorquals. (britannica.com)
- It was not before 1978 that some of the fin whale's organs - its penis, trachea and aortic arch - reached Stralsund through scientific exchange. (meeresmuseum.de)
- Shark's fin soup has long been considered a delicacy in Chinese communities around the world, served for special occasions and for honored guests. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
- Shark fin soup is a delicacy reserved for the wealthy on special occasions and it has been part of Chinese culture for centuries. (cnn.com)
- Once served at the banquet tables of Ming emperors, the ancient delicacy of shark-fin soup -- at $18 a bowl -- can be found at restaurants across Florida, including in Orlando. (orlandosentinel.com)
- One reason is the Asian delicacy Shark Fin Soup, which has resulted in the plunder and pillaging - know as finning - of nearly 100 million of the sharp-toothed sea creatures each year. (sheknows.com)
- It's easy to spot fin rot because it slowly eats away your bettas fins so that it becomes shorter and uglier. (hubpages.com)
- when my female Betta approaches his nest he gets aggressive and nips their fins when will he embracei have a male red Betta (3inch in length) and 3 female bettas (1.5 inch) in a tank filled with 10 litres of water and height of about 12cms. (hubpages.com)
- Vegans and vegetarians will say that killing any animal for food is cruel, while most meat eaters will say that humanely killing animals for food is acceptable. (sheknows.com)
- We believe that good animal welfare gives better quality meat, that's why this product is prepared using chicken from farms operating to these standards. (tesco.com)
- Here we examined the developmental process of the pectoral fins of the mudskipper Periophthalmus modestus to address these questions. (springer.com)
- almost all cetaceans possess a dorsal fin that serves as a keel. (britannica.com)
- g Ventral view of the proximal part of the pectoral fin. (springer.com)
- Foil shaped fins generate thrust when moved, the lift of the fin sets water or air in motion and pushes the fin in the opposite direction. (wikipedia.org)
- Fins can also generate thrust if they are rotated in air or water. (wikipedia.org)
- Propellers use the fins to translate torquing force to lateral thrust, thus propelling an aircraft or ship. (wikipedia.org)
- The pressure distribution on fin surface was computed and integrated to provide fin forces which were decomposed into lift and thrust. (scientific.net)
- In our study, microinjection of morpholino- (MO-) modified antisense oligonucleotides against pax1b induced pectoral fin bud defects. (hindawi.com)
- The skin produces slimy or poisonous secretion which makes these animals unpalatable to most predators. (gopetsamerica.com)
- In general, larger animals are safer from predators and are better able to compete for mates. (seaworld.org)