dijous, 29 d’abril del 2010
my weeekdn
dijous, 15 d’abril del 2010
The Swan
Swan makes you love.
With those colors I would hug him,
with those eyes look like me.
The swan is an animal to take care,
do not have to abuse,
if you do not have to love.
Traduccido:
El Cisne
El cisne te hace feliz,
el cisne te hace amar.
Con esos colores me gustaría abrazarlo,
con esos ojos me gustaría mirarlo.
El cisne es un animal para cuidarlo,
no se tiene que maltratar,
si no se tiene que amar.
LOVE POEM
dijous, 18 de març del 2010
The Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef
dijous, 11 de març del 2010
Sharks (superorder Selachimorpha) are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago, before the time of the dinosaurs.[1]
Like other fish, sharks extract oxygen from seawater as it passes over their gills. Unlike other fish, shark gill slits are not covered, but lie in a row behind the head. A modified slit called a spiracle lies just behind the eye; the spiracle assists water intake during respiration and plays a major role in bottom dwelling sharks. Spiracles are reduced or missing in active pelagic sharks.[11] While the shark is moving, water passes through the mouth and over the gills in a process known as "ram ventilation". While at rest, most sharks pump water over their gills to ensure a constant supply of oxygenated water. A small number of species have lost the ability to pump water through their gills and must swim without rest. These species are obligate ram ventilators and would presumably asphyxiate if unable to move. Obligate ram ventilation is also true of some pelagic bony fish species.
Reproduction
Sharks practice internal fertilization. The posterior part of a male shark's pelvic fins are modified into a pair of intromittent organs called claspers, analogous to a mammalian penis, of which one is used to deliver sperm into the female.[33]
Mating has rarely been observed in sharks. The smaller catsharks often mate with the male curling around the female. In less flexible species the two sharks swim parallel to each other while the male inserts a clasper into the female's oviduct. Females in many of the larger species have bite marks that appear to be a result of a male grasping them to maintain position during mating. The bite marks may also come from courtship behavior: the male may bite the female to show his interest. In some species, females have evolved thicker skin to withstand these bites.[33]
Unlike most bony fishes, sharks are K-selected reproducers, meaning that they produce a small number of well-developed young as opposed to a large number of poorly-developed young. Fecundity in sharks ranges from 2 to over 100 young per reproductive cycle. Sharks display three ways to bear their young, varying by species, oviparity, viviparity and ovoviviparity.