The Vaquita by Cord Ritter https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a My Boi en-us 2018-02-12 19:52:12 UTC 2024-12-16 13:01:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Trenton Swager https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231250306 Common Name: Vaquita
Scientific Name: Phocoena Sinus
]]> 2018-02-13 19:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231250306 Eli Haynes https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231250700
  • Where the species lives: the species lives in only the gulf of California 
  •  Description of the habitat:  lives in warm shallow coastal waters 
  • The food that the vaquita eats includes the gulf croaker and bronze striped grunts they also sometimes eat squid.
  • Three adaptations of the vaquita #1 the Vaquita has a pale underside so they blend with the water so they can not be seen by predators as easy #2 the vaquita is the only type of porpoise who can adapt to warm water. #3  the vaquita also has a big dorsal fin so they can shed some of their heat from the warm water they live in . 
  • Little /no beak, large dorsal fin, Robust body shape  
    • ]]>     2018-02-13 19:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231250700     https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231251175 2018-02-13 19:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231251175 Cord Ritter ritterc461 https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231255234 There are 30 Vaquita left in the wild. Their mating season is from April to May, and their gestation is 10-11 months. They birth one calf at a time every two years.  At birth, the calf weighs around 17 lbs, and is 28-31 inches. Some of the predators of the vaquita include sharks, rays, mackerels, and killer whales.]]> 2018-02-13 19:39:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231255234 Dalton Mills https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231265821 A reason why the Vaquita is important to the ecosystem because it would disrupt the native ecosystem and cause an overpopulation of the gulf croaker, squid, bronze striped grunt because those are species that Vaquita eat.
    The biggest threat remaining to the vaquita is incidental death caused by fishing gear. Vaquitas are known to die in gillnets set for sharks, rays, mackerels, and chano, as well as in illegal and occasional permitted gillnet sets for an endangered fish called totoaba.
    We can start a petition to make a law that fisherman can't cast nets in the area that the Vaquita's live in.
    ]]>     2018-02-13 19:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231265821     Size (Cord Ritter ritterc461 https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231266844 2018-02-13 20:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231266844 Vaquita prey (Eli Haynes) https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231267503 2018-02-13 20:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231267503 trenton https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231269344 http://cetus.ucsd.edu/voicesinthesea_org/videos/videoVaquitaMeet.html]]> 2018-02-13 20:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/231269344 Dalton Mills https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/232118166 2018-02-15 19:44:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ritterc461/3rfq5vhmlu0a/wish/232118166