Porpoises have the highest known upper hearing limit, at around 160 kHz.

Porpoises have been known to live 8 – 10 years, although some have lived to be 20.

Porpoises (; also called mereswine ) are small cetaceans of the family Phocoenidae ; they are related to whales and dolphins.

Porpoises, divided into six species, live in all oceans, and mostly near the shore.

Porpoises tend to be smaller but stouter than dolphins.

Porpoises are relatively r-selected compared with dolphins: that is, they bear young more quickly than dolphins.

Porpoises prey on fish, squid, and crustaceans.

Porpoises tend to be less acrobatic and more sexually agressive than dolphins.

Porpoises are rarely held in captivity in zoos or oceanaria, as they are generally not as capable of adapting to tank life or as easily trained as dolphins.

West of Sylt a breeding area of Harbour Porpoises is located.

Porpoises.

Larger than Porpoises, 2-3m depending on the type, black, with the rear edge of the fin curved back at the top unlike the straight edge of the Porpoise.

Cetaceans: The most abundant cetaceans include Orcas, Harbor and Dall's Porpoises.

* Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises: 2002-2010 Conservation Action Plan for the World's Cetaceans, Reeves, Smith, Crespo and Notarbartolo di Sciara.

* Whales Dolphins and Porpoises, Mark Carwardine.

Porpoises, K. S, Norris.

* Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises Carwardine, 1995.

Porpoises mate promiscuously.

Porpoises may not experience any toxic effects until they draw on their fat reserves, such as in periods of food shortage, migration or reproduction.

Most photographs of Burmeister's Porpoises are taken of dead specimens and show the animal to be coloured black.

# Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, Carwardine, 1995.

# Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises Carwardine, 1995.

* Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises Carwardine, 1995.

Most coastal stations have offshore anchorages, and supplies are transferred from ship to shore by small boats, barges, and helicopters.

Its coastal acquisition may have been one reason yellow amber came to be designated by the same term as ambergris.

They reproduce slowly either by bulb division or seeds and have gradually naturalized from plantings in urban and suburban areas throughout the lower elevations and coastal areas in much of the West Coast of the USA since these environments mimic their native South African habitat.

One theory is that they or part of them dwelt or moved among other coastal people perhaps confederated up to the basin of the Saale ( in the neighbourhood of the ancient canton of Engilin ) on the Unstrut valleys below the Kyffhäuserkreis, from which region the Lex Angliorum et Werinorum hoc est Thuringorum is believed by many to have come.

Shows don't always take place over airfields ; some have been held over the grounds of stately homes or castles and over the sea at coastal resorts.

Aboriginal communities in outback regions have not been displaced as they have been in areas of intensive agriculture and large cities, in coastal areas.

The Peucini Bastarnae would have been critical to this venture since, as coastal and delta dwellers, they would have had seafaring experience that the nomadic Sarmatians and Goths lacked.

Fixed Coastal defenses have long been erected in many nations and coastal countries typically have a navy and some form of coast guard.

Army units have been trained and equipped to fight in the swampy coastal terrain facing the Bakassi peninsula.

The pattern of distribution of these stories suggest they have a common origin in the eastern Asiatic coastal region, spreading as peoples migrated west into Siberia and east to the North American continent.

The American border with New Brunswick did not have any significant action during this conflict, although British forces did occupy a portion of coastal Maine at one point.

Some predominantly coastal areas have become major tourist centres, such as parts of Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, the South Shore of Nova Scotia and the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Bay of Fundy coasts of New Brunswick.

Up to 90 % of West Africa's coastal rainforests have disappeared since 1900.

Near Padstow, a Roman site of some importance now lies buried under the sands on the opposite side of the Camel estuary near St. Enodoc's Church, and may have been a western coastal equivalent of a Saxon Shore Fort.

It used gizzard stones to help digest its food, which is thought to have included fruits, and its main habitat is believed to have been the woods in the drier coastal areas of Mauritius.

The coastal region of Guinea and most of the inland have a tropical climate, with a rainy season lasting from April to November, relatively high and uniform temperatures, and high humidity.

The local African rulers in Guinea, who prosper greatly from the slave trade, have no interest in allowing the Europeans any further inland than the fortified coastal settlements where the trading takes place.

This network would have enabled easy access by road to the neighbouring countries of Brazil, Venezuela and Surinam ; reduced the costs of utilising the country's timber and natural resources, thus making them more competitive in international markets ; diversified agricultural development by making more easily available suitable areas in the hinterland, particularly in the Intermediate and Rupununi savannahs ; relieved the over-crowded coastland of a significant proportion of its population, thus improving the quality of life of the inhabitants of both the coastal and interior areas ; and made more feasible the equitable distribution of economic activity, not only in the agricultural but also in the manufacturing and small-industries sector.

These products have a wide range of applications and are currently used in many civil and geotechnical engineering applications including: roads, airfields, railroads, embankments, piled embankments, retaining structures, reservoirs, canals, dams, landfills, bank protection and coastal engineering.

" Antioch, a coastal city in northern Syria and the third largest in the Roman world, is often mentioned as this later home of the Matthean community, but it could have been any large city in the eastern Mediterranean with large Jewish and Christian populations, and recent research points towards a location near Galilee or Judea.

Fuji and the coastal Japanese Alps provide a rain shadow, Nagano and Yamashi Prefectures have the least precipitation in Honshū, though this still exceeds annually.