Q. What happens when the cold water from Antarctica travels and meets the warmer water near the equator?
The surface waters of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans become very cold and finally freeze. The water that sinks is replaced by surface water that comes from areas closer to the equator where it is warmer. The cold, salty water sinks to form an ocean current that moves deep underwater toward the equator.
Q. What happens when warm water meets cold water in the ocean?
When you heat up water, the water molecules start moving around faster and faster. So hot water is less dense than cold water. When you put the two together with the hot water on the bottom, the hot water rises to the top, mixing with the cold water along the way and creating purple water.
Q. What is responsible for bringing cold water to the equator?
Ocean currents act much like a conveyor belt, transporting warm water and precipitation from the equator toward the poles and cold water from the poles back to the tropics.
Q. What is the ugliest fish on earth?
blobfish
Q. What is the ugliest thing in the world?
Blobfish declared world’s ugliest animal.
Q. What is the nicest sea animal?
Dolphins. The most popular of all marine species of the Gulf Coast is the bottlenose dolphin! Not only are dolphins one of the most intelligent and happy creatures in the world, they are also among the friendliest towards humans.
Q. Has a dolphin ever killed a human?
Dolphins at swim-with attractions have been known to seriously hurt humans by butting them. The resulting injuries have included lacerations and broken bones.
Q. What are the friendliest animals?
FRIENDLIEST ANIMALS
- CAPYBARA. Don’t be fooled by the enormous size of this mammal.
- Dog. The innocent eyes of furballs are something you can’t take your eyes off of.
- DOLPHIN. One of the smartest animals in the world, Dolphins are known for their social skills and friendly behaviour.
- CAT.
- GIANT PANDA.
- RABBIT.
- GUINEA PIGS.
- HORSE.
Q. Are Dolphins friendly or dangerous?
Dolphins have a reputation for being friendly, but they are actually wild animals who should be treated with caution and respect. Interactions with people change dolphin behavior for the worse. They lose their natural wariness, which makes them easy targets for vandalism and shark attack.
Q. Would a killer whale eat a human?
Killer whales (or orcas) are large, powerful apex predators. In the wild, there have been no fatal recorded attacks on humans. In captivity, there have been several non-fatal and fatal attacks on humans since the 1970s.
Q. Why are dolphins bad?
Despite what dolphinaria may have you believe, dolphins are apex ocean predators, capable of even killing sharks, and should be treated as such. Dolphins can be aggressive to people, other dolphins, or even self-harm. While the majority of dolphins in the U.S. are bred in captivity, they are not domesticated animals.
Q. Can a dolphin kill a shark?
Dolphins have even been known to protect humans in danger of sharks. Apex Prey. Orcas are the largest member of the dolphin family and have been known to hunt great white sharks when food is scarce.
Q. Why are sharks scared of dolphins?
Sharks like to eat animals that are smaller than them – they particularly like to eat young (baby) dolphins. The dolphin will swim very fast and ram the shark so hard that it dies. As such, sharks have good reason to be scared of dolphins.
Q. Do dolphins get high?
Documentary shows dolphins in trance-like state after snacking on puffer fish. A new documentary on the BBC shows dolphins using pufferfish to get to a trance-like state.
Q. Do dolphins kill their babies?
A helpless newborn is threatened or killed by members of its own species. It’s called infanticide and it occurs in many species, from lions to monkeys. It has rarely been observed in dolphins, but it does happen, despite their cuddly reputation.
