Animals and Plants of Lake Baikal by Olga https://padlet.com/yalo77/3tgbmjyqnuge en-us 2017-10-05 21:19:07 UTC 2024-09-05 22:06:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Golomyanka yalo77 https://padlet.com/yalo77/3tgbmjyqnuge/wish/194512536
Golomyankas have two ather names: comephorus (scientific) or Baikal oilfish.  It is a fresh-water fish wich lives in lake Baikal in Russia. They have translucent bodies with no scales. They dive deep into water around 1 km and at night they get to the surface to feed. They are very rare.
]]> 2017-10-05 21:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/yalo77/3tgbmjyqnuge/wish/194512536 Nerpa pashapiskalov https://padlet.com/yalo77/3tgbmjyqnuge/wish/194625592 Nerpa is a fresh-water seal.  Nerpa lives up to 55-60 years, while the average age of other seals from European lakes is only 30-35 years.  They also differ from others by the silver- grey colour of their skin and have 2 more litres of blood, which enables them to do without fresh air for almost 70 minutes. The seal came into Baikal from the Arctic Ocean through the Lena River in prehistoric times.]]> 2017-10-06 11:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/yalo77/3tgbmjyqnuge/wish/194625592 Baikal Sponges 0801tak https://padlet.com/yalo77/3tgbmjyqnuge/wish/195046009 Baikal sponges were found in sedimentary rock as mineral form. Endemic Baikal sponges differ from others because they can live in cold water in winter. They live more than 10 years and attain a large size up to one meter. Sponges found on rocky grounds and have various shades of emerald-green color because of the seaweed covering them. At the depth where seaweed cannot survive sponges have brown and blue shades or they are even colorless. Their bodies are full of pores that allow water circulate through them.
 ]]> 2017-10-08 21:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/yalo77/3tgbmjyqnuge/wish/195046009 Baikal epischura. avydrina https://padlet.com/yalo77/3tgbmjyqnuge/wish/195297338 The most numerous inhabitant of the lake's water is a copepodae crustocean - the Baikal epischura. It is about the size of a manna-croup grain; a size of 1.5 millimeters is 'gigantic' for it. However, it accounts for 96 per cent of Baikal zooplankton.
The epischura plays an exceptional part in Baikal's life circle. Without any exaggeration, one can say that the epischura is the major filter of Baikal. According to academician G. Galazy, a well-known scientist (Lake Baikal, 1979), "throughout the year all crustaceans of this species filter from 500 to 1000 cubic kilometres of the Baikal water or more, which is 10-15 times more than the annual in-flow of water from all tributaries." The epischura lives only in cold clean water with a constant chemical composition and high saturation with oxygen.
]]> 2017-10-09 16:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/yalo77/3tgbmjyqnuge/wish/195297338 Siberia cedar bukrina_olga https://padlet.com/yalo77/3tgbmjyqnuge/wish/195370817 Siberia cedar is evergreen plant of the genus Pine. It grows with the Baikal pine, fir and larch everywhere. The tree grows up to 45 meters in height and up to 2 meters in diameter. Life expectancy up to 800 years. The trunk of the tree is covered with a brown-gray scaly Coria. Needles of dark green color are 6-14 centimeters long, growing in bundles.

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