EVR 3013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dugong, Merycoidodontoidea, Oligocene
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Study of all interactions/relationships among living beings and their physical environment. Understand the functioning of whole living systems . Endemic species are plants and animals that exist only in one geographic region. What may have caused sharks to diversify in size since the oligocene? adapting to shallow waters less food change in migration methods. They were able to burrow themselves and go underneath the ground. It can hide from predators very easily. population rapid reproduction. They sense predators that other animals aren"t able to sense. They eat insects and bugs. sonar wings few predators. Not a very fast running animal. food scarcity easily preyed upon. low reproductively environmental chain. Full healthy ecosystems, large food chain, top predator is sign for a lot of prey. Tails: manatees have a large, horizontal, paddle-shaped tail with only one lobe, which moves up and down when the animal swims.
