Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Questions and Answers of Prankster of the Sea.

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                          Prankster of the Sea -- Jack Denton Scott


1.      How do porpoises fight shark?
     Ans:  Porpoises generally fight shark collectively. They surround the shark in the water. They continue their attack one by one like a torpedo, punching behind the gills and the stomach. Finally the shark dies and sinks into the water
2.      “There have many stories ………….. LivesDescribes one of the stories about saving human life.
Ans: Once a woman was walking through waist deep water off the Florida Coast. Then a under-tow pulled her down. But she felt something that saved her on to the beach. But when she got up, she saw a porpoise leaping about. A man standing nearby said that the porpoise had saved her ashore. Marine scientists point out that the porpoise’s spirit of play is responsible for such incident.

3.      What evidence is there that porpoises were known as friendly creatures in Roman time?
Ans: The ancients called the porpoise a dolphin and knew it as friendly. Plutarch wrote that the porpoise loved man for its own sake. Pliny the Elder wrote about the porpoise that it took a boy for a ride at Hippo. The Roman coins bear the imprint of dolphin. These are the evidence that prove the porpoises were known as friendly creatures in Roman time.

4.      Where does porpoise’s voice come from? OR. What is the source of porpoise’s voice?
Ans: The porpoise has a single nostril. It is crescent-shaped blowhole stop in his head. It closes when it touches water. The porpoise breathes its nostril. The porpoise can vibrate it like a human lip. This is the source of porpoise’s voice.

5.      What do you know about the assistant mother?
Ans: A female porpoise is the assistant mother. She takes care of an expectant mother during her pregnancy and for several weeks after the birth. She helps the mother porpoise bring up the baby and protect it from sharks. When a baby porpoise attacked by a shark the mother and the assistant mother make a whistle sound for help and many porpoise come up. They surround the shark and begin to attack till his death.

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Unknown said...

Why we call propoise 'the prankster of the sea'