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... lagoons and bays provide food and shelter to a few animals and plants . Lagoons are sometimes formed as a coral reef island evolves , while others exist along sheltered coasts . Inland waterways that are affected by the tides also serve ...
... lagoons and bays provide food and shelter to a few animals and plants . Lagoons are sometimes formed as a coral reef island evolves , while others exist along sheltered coasts . Inland waterways that are affected by the tides also serve ...
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... lagoons only seasonally . The humpback whale travels from polar feeding waters to sheltered lagoons off the coast of Hawaii to mate and bear young . The animals use the warmer water and shelter from open sea hazards to allow their ...
... lagoons only seasonally . The humpback whale travels from polar feeding waters to sheltered lagoons off the coast of Hawaii to mate and bear young . The animals use the warmer water and shelter from open sea hazards to allow their ...
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... lagoons as well as the Bering Sea . They are bottom feeders , running their bodies along muddy sediments to stir up small crusta- ceans which they gulp into their mouths and strain through fringed plates of baleen ( see Chapter 11 , The ...
... lagoons as well as the Bering Sea . They are bottom feeders , running their bodies along muddy sediments to stir up small crusta- ceans which they gulp into their mouths and strain through fringed plates of baleen ( see Chapter 11 , The ...
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