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What was the common ancestor between elephants and sirenians?
The common ancestor between elephants and sirenians is Manatee.
How do most sirenians and cetaceans swim?
Dorso ventral undulations of the body for propulsion
Who is the top predator of the ocean killer whales or blue whales?
Killers whales. They eat practically everything (cetaceans, sirenians, pinnipeds, sea otters, sea turtles, sharks, rays, bony fishes, squid).
What type of animal is the dougong?
The dugong is a marine mammal belonging to the group known as Sirenians. It is the manatee's closest relative.
What animal group do manatee belongs?
They are called sirenians. Named after sirens also known as mermaids.
Where Did The Legend Of Mermaids Come From?
Most probably the manatee or dugong, sea mammals known as sirenians. The female nurses her young from teats that are placed high on the torso, as are human breasts. Beyond the breast placement, though, it's hard to see how sirenians, which are about as homely as can be imagined, were even taken for beautiful maidens. Then again, in the days of wind and sail people could be a loooong time at sea.
11 Which close relative of the elephant is a native of Africa and resembles guinea pig?
Hyraxes are rabbit-size mammals that look like guinea pigs. These distant relatives of elephants and sirenians live in Africa and the Middle East.
Why do centaceans also known as manatees have useless tiny hips and legs?
You are mistaken there; cetaceans are dolphins and whales, not manatees; manatees are known as sirenians. They have useless hips and hind legs because they are so well adapted to a marine lifestyle and they no longer walk on land.
What are some nine letter words with 4th letter E and 5th letter N and 6th letter I and 7th letter A?
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern ---ENIA--. That is, nine letter words with 4th letter E and 5th letter N and 6th letter I and 7th letter A. In alphabetical order, they are: arseniate sirenians
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Where manaties with dinosaurs?
The non avian dinosaurs became extinct 65.5 million years ago. The earliest sirenians, (the order that includes manatees), didn't evolve until about 50 million years ago, 15 million years after the extinction of the non avian dinosaurs. However, scientists consider birds a group of dinosaurs, and, because birds still exist today, manatees do coexist with avian dinosaurs.
Is Insulating body hair is a characterisitc of mammals?
All mammals have some hair, but cetaceans, sirenians, elephants, domestic pigs, naked mole rats, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, walruses, sea lions, some seals, and others lack dense, inslulating body hair. Humans' body hair is not very dense either. Thus, hair is a characteristic of mammals, but dense hair covering the entire body is not.
