Rare fish with amazing behavior and unusual appearance
Today discovered and described about 30 thousand species of fish . Some of them can boast of such unusual appearance that it is hard to believe that it is really…

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These amazing fish
In the World ocean inhabits 180 thousand kinds of animals According to scientists, man eating fish and other marine animals that uses only 0.02% of the primary production of seas…

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Marine aquarium on Clean ponds
Good lessons different from all the others important feature: if the child looks at an object of study, can touch, hold in your hand and taste, useful information is absorbed…

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Goldfish in the pond
In the first place. conceived as a small pond? If its depth is less than 50 cm, it will quickly heat up, the fish will suffocate from lack of oxygen.…

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Whale sanctuary in the Mediterranean sea

Not all, probably believe that whales live in the Mediterranean sea. And it’s true: cetaceans and basking in such turbulent waters that night and day travel through sea vessels, really are. To see minke whales, dolphins, sperm whales, you just have to sit in the boat and go for a walk in the sea. Of course, marine mammals are very bother the noise of engines, loud music and oil stains. Frightened Dolphin or whale often does not have time to get off the road and stumbled on running at high speed the ship could be lost. People try to save beautiful sea animals and maintain the conditions to which they are accustomed. To do this in the Mediterranean was established whale sanctuary. It is situated between the coast of Italy (Liguria, Sardinia, Tuscany), France and Monaco. On the map the reserve looks like a triangle with an area of 84 thousand sq km, the top of which is the Cape to Find pamariu (near Toulon), Sardinian capes ferro, Falcone Fossò-Carone, on the Western Italian coast, near the border between Tuscany and Lazio. The reserve declared a “special protected area because of its importance for the Mediterranean”. Prevailing in this zone for East-West acts like a vortex that lifts from the depth of layers of plankton. There are also many fish and drugoie, beloved whale. In addition to a huge striped whales within the reserve live dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, dolphins brown, butylone, Risso’s Dolphin and “champion of diving” — the sperm whale, stretching to depths of more than 2 thousand meters

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The largest representative striped whale in the Mediterranean sea — fin. Especially a lot of minke whales in the Western Ligurian sea, but they occur also in the Tyrrhenian, and Ionian seas. The largest minke whales grow to 20 m in length. And most of all in the reserve and the Mediterranean sea striped dolphins.

From the Italian cities of Genoa, Imperia and some other ports I regularly go on the ships depart for the tourists who want to see whale in the Ligurian sea. They are stocking binoculars, and most importantly – patience.

Plankton – small organisms that live in water and on the sea currents. Plankton can be tiny plants – phytoplankton or copepods and other small animals – zooplankton.

The inhabitants of the sea
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A few facts about sharks
he oldest sharks there are over 400 million years, sharks are older than dinosaurs. There are about 350 species of sharks; their size can vary from 15 centimeters to 18…

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Interesting facts about Black sea
Was time to leave, but many are now interested to learn something new about our beautiful Black sea. Here are some facts. The black sea is inhabited by 2500 species…

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Whale sanctuary in the Mediterranean sea
Not all, probably believe that whales live in the Mediterranean sea. And it's true: cetaceans and basking in such turbulent waters that night and day travel through sea vessels, really…

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