Jellyfish are in the same phylum as sea anemones, where clownfish make their home. Both jellyfish and sea anemones are cnidarians, classified as an organism with an opening with a ring of tentacles surrounding it. If you want to get technical, jellyfish are in the medusa phase a free-swimming structure while anemones are in the polyp phase an attaching structure.
The layer of mucus on a clownfish that protects them from sea anemones could be what protected Marlin in the movie. In the movie, it looks like a type of warp-speed highway for aquatic life. The current on the east side of the Australian coast that flows in a southward direction from the Great Barrier Reef. EAC transports more than 40 million cubic meters of water each second.
As for fish "riding" the EAC the way they do in the movie, some scientists say they have seen tropical fish "hitching a ride" on the current , though it is not quite as fast as it appears in the movie. In one of the most famous scenes from the movie, Dory says she is able to speak whale, oscillating her tones to mimic a whale's sonar. A somewhat accurate fact, whales communicate by using sonar waves , which is part of their echolocation abilities, or using distinct sounds to discern surroundings.
Sperm whales, one study says, could have their own language that varies by each clan. Fish also communicate through specific sounds , most commonly fish and invertebrates communicate via clicks and rhythmic noises — including grunts, croaks, and snaps. Poaching, which is different than mere recreational diving , can be a scourge to marine life, especially in the endangered Great Barrier Reef. Like the Aussie dentist, Dr. Sherman, poachers and divers who usurp marine life for their own purposes can severely damage the thriving ecosystem that is the Reef, notably by bringing in foreign influences and disturbing the natural state of the environment.
Just like Dr. Sherman didn't realize he was separating Marlin and Nemo, humans may not realize we're damaging aquatic wildlife.
World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Throughout the Northeast, more than , homes and businesses lost electricity.
Airlines canceled more than 5, flights through Saturday, and New York City's three major airports and Boston's Logan Airport closed. The storm named Nemo is being blamed on at least four deaths in New York and Canada. Earlier, as meteorologists warned of the impending blizzard conditions, shoppers from New Jersey to Maine crowded into supermarkets and hardware stores to buy food, snow shovels, flashlights and generators, something that became a precious commodity after Superstorm Sandy in October.
Others gassed up their cars, another lesson learned all too well after Sandy. Across much of New England, schools closed well ahead of the first snowflakes. Stay home. The wind-whipped snowstorm mercifully arrived at the start of a weekend, which meant fewer cars on the road and extra time for sanitation crews to clear the mess before commuters in the New York-to-Boston region of roughly 25 million people have to go back to work.
But it could also mean a weekend cooped up indoors. Rainy Neves, a mother of two in Cambridge, just west of Boston, did some last-minute shopping at a grocery store, filling her cart to the brim. In heavily Catholic Boston, the archdiocese urged parishioners to be prudent about attending Sunday Mass and reminded them that, under church law, the obligation "does not apply when there is grave difficulty in fulfilling this obligation. Halfway through what had been a mild winter across the Northeast, blizzard warnings were posted from parts of New Jersey to Maine.
The National Weather Service said Boston could get close to 3 feet of snow by Saturday evening, while most of Rhode Island could receive more than 2 feet, most of it falling overnight Friday into Saturday. Connecticut was bracing for 2 feet, and New York City was expecting as much as 14 inches. East of New York City, nearly a foot of snow had fallen before midnight Friday.
There were only a few hundred power outages statewide. Portland set a record snowfall reading of The weather contributed to a fatal crash. Vehicles, including state police cruisers, were stuck in the deep snow, state police said, warning that stranded drivers should expect long waits for tow trucks. About 12, homes and businesses lost power. Nearly all had their lights back on late Saturday night. In Rangley, the weather didn't stop a massive snowmobile parade.
The state was spared the worst of the storm, and the highest snowfalls were spread across northern New Jersey, where River Vale got 15 inches, the National Weather Service reported. Bus and train service that was suspended Friday night as the storm intensified was restored Saturday, and Newark Liberty Airport reopened Saturday morning after runways were closed overnight for snow removal. Hundreds of flights were canceled.
Flooding, seen on a massive scale during Superstorm Sandy, did not appear to cause major problems. Officials say just a few thousand customers lost power during the storm, and nearly all had their service restored by early Saturday afternoon.
Police had to use snowmobiles to reach ambulances, fire trucks, police vehicles, some snowplow trucks and passenger vehicles stranded overnight on the Long Island Expressway. The total for New York was down to about 4, by early Sunday.
Plows had been out overnight and he said on track to have all streets cleared by the end of the day. At a nearby coffee shop in Central Park, the line was long as many folks ordered warm coffee and hot chocolate. Families took in some downhill sledding. Kids — as well as parents — laughed and yelled with delight as they each slid down hills on plastic sleighs. Outside Central Park, doormen used long brooms to clear the piled-up snow from the awnings of apartment buildings.
Along the city's East River Park promenade, runners and dog walkers took advantage of the cleared pathway and afternoon sunshine. Most mass transit in the city was running Saturday morning, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said, and some service was restored on Metro-North commuter rail lines, which had been shut down into Saturday morning. Amtrak said some trains between New York and Boston would run Sunday.
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