What is "cetaceans"

Usage examples of "cetaceans".

It had been done, so the politicians claimed, to see what kind of civilization the cetaceans might create on a world of their own.

For one thing, nothing like competition exists between the cetaceans and the towns.

If any among the native cetaceans knows anything about what happened to the four lost towns and their inhabitants, it would be the catodons.

No doubt the resident cetaceans would vigorously oppose any such form of permanent floating development.

The superstrong polymer had a breaking point of several tons per square meter, a point which the rampaging cetaceans had handily exceeded.

If anyone happened to stumble in when a town was under attack and get safely away, the cetaceans would get the blame.

He did not add that since the cetaceans were fully protected, the trouble would more likely be between men.

The entire pod, some two or three hundred adult, adolescent, and juvenile cetaceans, breached simultaneously.

For a moment she marveled that the cetaceans would bother to distinguish sexual characteristics among humans.

Both media have differing advantages and disadvantages for generating and receiving sound waves, and cetaceans are designed to reap the best of both worlds.

All cetaceans draw in fresh air through this nasal orifice down into their lungs, releasing it and drawing in a fresh supply whenever they return to the surface.

It also explains why those cetaceans which produce no sonar clicks also lack a melon and lower jaw modifications.

The Killer whale is an exception, preying on seals, sea-lions and some of the smaller cetaceans - porpoises and dolphins, for example.

It had taken humans a long time to understand the values of cetaceans who were relatively close kin.

The cetaceans that mankind had once hunted and experimented upon and drowned wholesale in driftnets were now trading partners and friends.