porpoises
mereswines
phocoenidae latin

The porpoises were too far away to be seen now.

What are some of the differences between dolphins and porpoises?

Porpoises, I suddenly remembered, could hold their breath for half an hour.

I was talking to the guys up there in the bow, and we were watching the porpoises.

The social life of harbour porpoises is not well understood.

We saw several large sea turtles and two porpoises in about three feet of water.

He could do little more than watch porpoises and gulls with them.

Is it being kept for the porpoises or the officers?"

Several thousand porpoises are caught each year in Peru alone.

They were the only neurotics in the long history of porpoises.

These include not only whales but also dolphins and porpoises.

Porpoises - even small whales - were common in these waters.

"Catches of dolphins and porpoises are not something we hear about all that often", he said.

Water mammals range in size from small porpoises to whales.

Usually, on Wylfa head, you can see porpoises coming up for air.

The victims were roughly four feet in length - about the same size as the dead porpoises.

But the porpoises wheeled themselves away, and then we were thrown upon our own resources.

It is true that the number of porpoises is very low.

Three long gray porpoises rose beside the ship and sounded.

"Porpoises are common around here, even the occasional whale," we were told.

The low populations of porpoises put even more responsibility on us to ensure their protection.

In some countries, porpoises are hunted for food or bait meat.

They were even shooting porpoises in the ocean from the beach."

"We have a lot of interesting wildlife, like porpoises and whales," he said.

Porpoises, indeed, are to this day considered fine eating.

Other cetaceans are several families of whales and the porpoises, which belong to another family, Phocoenidae.

They form the family Phocoenidae.

However, today most Of the species belong to one family, Delphinidae, with a modest contribution from Phocoenidae.

Family Phocoenidae:

The Monodontidae family separated relatively early from the other odontoceti; it split from the Delphinoidea family between 11 and 15 million years ago, and from the Phocoenidae, its closest relatives in evolutionary terms, more recently still.