Largemouth Bass Evolution

Hi! , I’m Wil. Today I’m going to talk about Bass fishing. Bass are a very fun fish to catch, and I will try to cover most of this topic today. The first thing I want to talk about is Bass Habitat and food source.

Feeding habits: Sea Lions are carnivorous having fish being their favorite food including herring, mackerel, pompano, salmon, capelin and squid. They also feed on crabs and clams. The quantity of fish consumed by sea lions depends on their size as well as the abundance of fish in their habitats. Sea lions may use their sensitive whiskers to locate food.

Manatees swim at about 5 to 8 kilometers per hour; much speedy swimming has been known in short bursts (up to 30 km/hour). Reproduction: Female manatees reach sexual maturity between five and nine years of age. Manatees typically breed once every two years. A female manatee usually seeks quiet area in which to give birth after a gestation of about 12 months.

Female white sharks are thought to reach reproductive age at around 17 years. After an incubation period between 12 and 18 months the great white gives birth to between 4 and 14 pups. They are born roughly 1.2 meters long (3.9 feet) and weighing 50 to 60 pounds. Research has shown that the pups get their nutrients through eating unfertilized eggs and other embryos while in the uterus. Female great white sharks are thought to give birth to new litters every 2 or 3 years.

The Hammerhead shark is a long, odd looking animal. on average, they 11.5 feet long, and weigh about 1,000 pounds. The odd shaped head they have is called a cephalofoil, and it allows for 360o vision.

It may worth mentioning that weedy seadragons are easily injured during handling. Feeding habits and predation: Seadragons feed mainly on tiny crustaceans such as mysids and sea lice. Their snouts are equipped with special muscles which enable widening the snout and hence capturing different sizes of food and passing it into their toothless

The Puerto Rican frog developed special disk, or pads on their toes allowing them to move up vertically surfaces with ease and clinging to trees. The Puerto Rican coqui (Eleutherodactyylus

Tarpon, Atlantic (Megalops atlanticus) Introduction: Atlantic tarpon, Megalops atlanticus that belongs to the family Megalopidae is also known as the silver king and Sábalo in Spanish. Although this species has no commercial value as a food fish due to its bony flesh, it is a premier sport fish species not only because of their size but also because of their fighting spirit when hooked. When they occur in high abundance, tarpons would be of economic significance. Their average lifespan is about 50-55 years for females and 30-40 years for males. Being a prized game fish, tarpon would be present in fishing festivals.

The Nile Perch can inhibit both tropical and fresh water. They become sexually mature at the age of three years and reproduce in large numbers (they can produce 16 million eggs at one time) with juveniles requiring no parental

They are originally from North America and live in places such as rivers, streams and lakes. Bluegill can grow up to around 30 centimeters, but most of them are about 20~25 centimeters (“Bluegill Fish”, N/A). They mainly eat small insects and other small fish. The bluegill eat small animals to sea weeds, and they are strong fishes. Bluegill spread fast because the parents protect their eggs so other fishes can’t eat them.

The Snow Petrel have webbed feet that help them to swim swiftly and smoothly across large amounts of water looking for food. “Raptor of the South”, Albatross are known to be the most majestic of all the Antarctic birds with a total of 21 different breeds in the southern hemisphere. Albatross have a large head with a sharp hooked beak. The male Polar Skuas have a tendency to be smaller and lighter than female. For the migration the Polar Skuas will cross the equator and go into Alaska or the

Normally mute swans nest one time a year between the months of March and August. The nests are made next to water or on floating islands by the female. She uses building materials gathered by males, which includes grasses and twigs (Jimenez 2007). A pair often matches by the age of 2 even though they may not breed for another couple years. Although they pair, the swans usually do not mate for life; some have as many as four mates and even “divorce” one in favor of another (Ivory 2002).

In addition to birds, plenty of fish can be found in the basin and fishermen frequent the basin in search of Tilapia (3). Tilapia can be found by the hundreds in the basin along with corvina and an occasional striped bass, mullet, croaker, or sargo (3). The endangered pupfish, though rare, also rely on the basin for survival (10). Pupfish are also the only native species in the Salton Sea, thriving in shallow bodies of water with a high salt and heat

This graph shows a more stable recording in the movement of this type of orca; the furthest that the whale in graph B dives is about 75 meters. Resident killer whales are also known to only prefer fish, opposed to the transient killer whale, which targets marine mammals. The graph also supports the fact that resident killer whales are exactly what their name says, they are familiar with the territory they inhabit, which allows them to frequent and move about more, where as with the transient orca, they could only go so far because they navigate and dive according to where their food is. Both graphs are very distinct in terms of figuring out which type of killer whale it depicts; the resident killer whale has a very consistent dive and depth pattern, and is very easy to detect because of the obvious background of its kind—what it preys on as well as where it usually migrates to, where as the transient killer whale has a more spaced out graph, due to the fact that unlike the resident killer whale, it stays more to the coastal areas and would only dive deep to seek out other marine mammals to prey

Once a hunted and endangered species the gray whale is now considered one of the most popular marine mammals to those who participating in the whale watching industry. 45. A fully grown gray whale can weigh just as much or more than 5 adult elephants. 46. Unlike toothed whales that are born with a single blowhole the gray whale possess two blowholes.