Porpoises Sentence Examples
Populations of harbor porpoises in EU waters are under threat.
The whale is often seen in the Gulf of Oman; porpoises and swordfishes are common.
Specializing mainly in harbor porpoises he has the longest running porpoise survey worldwide.
From fish or marine mammals (including porpoises ).
Threats Because they are small, porpoises can be caught in fishing nets and then they drown.
These are the first reported sightings of porpoises for this year to the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Dolphin Group.
The wild animals found in the district comprise a few tigers, leopards and wild elephants, deer, wild pig, porcupines, jackals, foxes, hares, otters, &c. The green monkey is very common; porpoises abound in the large rivers.
The dolphins, bottle-noses, or, as they are more commonly called, "porpoises," are found in abundance in all seas, while some species are inhabitants of large rivers, as the Amazon.
They are mostly gregarious, and the agility and grace of their movements in the water are themes of admiration to the spectators when a "school of porpoises" is playing round the bows of a vessel at sea.
In the bays and lower courses of the rivers are porpoises, whiting, sea bass, channel bass, shad, sturgeon, mullet, drum, bluefish, snappers, sheepshead, weakfish or squeteague, groupers, and several other kinds of fish.
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The number of whales, dolphins and porpoises stranded on the UK coastline has more than doubled over the last ten years.
In the inland waters salmon, trout, togue (Salvelinus namaycush), pickerel and bass abound; along the shore there are lobsters, clams and scallops (Pecten irradians); and off the shore are herring, alewives, mackerel, cod, halibut, haddock, smelts, hake, menhaden, porgies and porpoises.