Quotes About Porpoises
I love the Altai Mountains. Crimea, despite all the conflict, is a remarkable place historically, culturally and physically. The mountains drop down into the sea. Porpoises swim in the shallows. Horses gallop through the grass. There are huge rocks, castles, caves.
~ Tim Cope
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The echolocation clicks of sperm whales are very powerful, allowing detection of prey and other things at longer ranges than vision or other senses can manage underwater.9 Sonar can also be very precise. Dolphins and porpoises with their higher frequency echolocation can build detailed pictures of their surroundings. Sonar
~ Hal Whitehead
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In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
~ Herman Melville
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Porpoises are a separate band entirely, although in the past the words "dolphin" and "porpoise" were often used interchangeably. The seven species of porpoises, or Phocoenidae, are smaller, and distinct from dolphins. The road to Honolua Bay was red dirt against a gray sky, and it wound up the bluff in a series of steep switchbacks. I pulled over at the top, where the grade leveled off in a clearing. Usually
~ Susan Casey
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Porpoises are a separate band entirely, although in the past the words "dolphin" and "porpoise" were often used interchangeably. The seven species of porpoises, or Phocoenidae, are smaller, and distinct from dolphins.
~ Susan Casey
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The sea, the sea, yes,' James went on. 'Did you know that Plato was descended from Poseidon on his father's side? Do you have porpoises, seals?' 'There are seals, I'm told. I haven't seen any.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Mr. Raney named the porpoises - Sister Woman, and Renford, and Lamar, and St. Elmo - and could recognize them, and call each by its name, even at night, six feet long, some of them, with a million sharp teeth and a naughty grin. Often when he floated past in the boat and watched their playful wheeling, in and out among the cypress knees, he called out to them, "Lamar, we are all alone in the world!" or "Renford, cork is an export product of India!
~ Lewis Nordan
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The porpoises said hello to Molly. She told them all her teeth were green.
~ Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
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