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Milk is why mammals suck.
But sound moves about four times faster in water than in air, so in this dark environment, marine mammals often rely on vocalization to communicate.
But the most famous parts of this underwater symphony are the evocative melodies, or songs, composed by the world's largest mammals, whales.
Land mammals like us generate sound by moving air over our vocal cords when we exhale, causing them to vibrate.
Invertebrates like snapping shrimp, fish and marine mammals all use sound.
For marine mammals that live underwater, where chemical cues and light transmit poorly, sound is the sense by which they see.
In the Arctic, this is especially important, because not only do Arctic marine mammals have to hear each other, but they also have to listen for cues in the environment that might indicate heavy ice ahead or open water.
Remember, although they spend most of their lives underwater, they are mammals, and so they have to surface to breathe.
Arctic marine mammals live in a rich and varied underwater soundscape.
Decreasing sea ice is also causing increased erosion along coastal villages, and changing prey availability for marine birds and mammals.
And all of these sound sources are decreasing the acoustic space over which Arctic marine mammals can communicate.
Now, Arctic marine mammals are used to very high levels of noise at certain times of the year.
This animal byproduct, produced in the stomachs of certain mammals, can accelerate and control coagulation.
In "The Descent of Man," he wrote, "In each great region of the world, the living mammals are closely related to the extinct species of the same region.
We're all mammals here, we all have a lot of neural and hormonal programming that makes us really bond with others, care for others, feel compassion for others, especially the weak and vulnerable.
A world fit for mammals.
Some mammals turned back to water.
They come from an ancient line of mammals, and there were once dozens of species including the giant ground sloth, which was the size of a small elephant and one of the only animals big enough to eat avocado pits whole and disperse them.
Unlike other mammals, sloths don't also waste time maintaining a constant warm body temperature.
Sunning themselves on rocks or waddling awkwardly across the beach, it’s easy to think of these immobile mammals less as sea lions, and more as sea house cats.
Hurtling around at speeds from 4 to 18 miles an hour and hunting for up to 30 hours at a time, these majestic mammals live up to their name.
These red flags help us take action to protect ourselves and other maritime mammals.
And there are actually more species of bees than there are mammals and birds combined.
This is rapid eye movement kind of dreaming that we only thought mammals and birds did.
The clock is a molecular oscillator, the details here are not important at all, I don't want you to look at the names of these things on the board, but I want to point out that the clock is essentially the same in animals such as fruit flies, which my lab uses in our studies, and in mammals like mice or humans.
And these animals disappeared, and a separate life, mammals, radiated out to take their place.
I mean, certainly mammals did.
And that is 10 times longer than it took the mammals to achieve maximum body size and invade all those habitats.
The age of mammals had well and truly started 250 million years ago ... ... and then a catastrophe happened.
Something else is, because if that doesn't survive, we are not here; there are no mammals.
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