What is a marine mammal?

Answer 1

Marine mammals are mammals that live in the marine water. It is not a biological group but an ecological group,It is based on marine habitat .The two properties of a marine mammal are:

1. Reliance on marine environments, and
2. Being a mammal.

Answer 2

Marine mammals have the same characteristics as all other mammals, but they have adapted or adjusted to life in the ocean.

There are five distinct groups of marine mammals:

Pinnipeds - Seals (Family Phocidae), sea lions (Family Otariidae - which also include the fur seals), and the Walrus (Family Odobenidae).

Sea otters - member of the Family Mustelidae, which includes weasels and badgers.

Cetaceans - toothed whales (Suborder Odontoceti), such as the Sperm Whale, dolphins, and porpoises such as the Dall's porpoise. Cetaceans also include baleen whales (Suborder Mysticeti), such as the Gray Whale, Humpback Whale, and Blue Whale.

Sirenians - manatees, the Dugong, and the extinct Steller's Sea Cow.

Polar bears - Polar Bear (Family Ursidae) is sometimes considered a marine mammal because of its dependence on the sea

Answer 3

A marine mammal is a mammal (vertebrate, air breathing animals that produce milk for their young) that lives in the water. Examples include whales and dolphins.

Answer 4

A marine mammal such as the whale, dolphin, and porpoise.

Answer 5

Any whale, dolphin, porpoise, walrus, sea lion, dugong or manatee.

Answer 6

Dolphin

Answer 7

a whale