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Breed of the Sea è un film muto del 1926 diretto e interpretato da Ralph Ince. La sceneggiatura si basa su Blue Blood and the Pirates, racconto di Peter Bernard Kyne apparso il 30 marzo 1912 sul Saturday Evening Post
Breed of the Sea is a 1926 American silent adventure film directed by and starring Ralph Ince with Margaret Livingston and Dorothy Dunbar.
Breed of the Sea: Directed by Ralph Ince. With Ralph Ince, Margaret Livingston, Pat Harmon, Alphonse Ethier. Tom and Tod Pembroke are the twin sons of Jefferson Pembroke, a Virginia Bishop, and are divinity-school students.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Ralph Ince
- 1926-11-07
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- Evolution and Fossil Record
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- Relationship with Humans
- Seabird Families
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There exists no single definition of which groups, families and species are seabirds, and most definitions are in some way arbitrary. Elizabeth Shreiber and Joanna Burger, two seabird scientists, said, "The one common characteristic that all seabirds share is that they feed in saltwater; but, as seems to be true with any statement in biology, some ...
Seabirds, by virtue of living in a geologically depositional environment (that is, in the sea where sediments are readily laid down), are well represented in the fossil record. They are first known to occur in the Cretaceous period, the earliest being the Hesperornithiformes, like Hesperornis regalis, a flightless loon-like seabird that could dive ...
Adaptations to life at sea
Seabirds have made numerous adaptations to living on and feeding in the sea. Wing morphology has been shaped by the niche an individual species or family has evolved, so that looking at a wing's shape and loading can tell a scientist about its life feeding behaviour. Longer wings and low wing loading are typical of more pelagic species, while diving species have shorter wings. Species such as the wandering albatross, which forage over huge areas of sea, have a reduced capacity for powered fli...
Diet and feeding
Seabirds evolved to exploit different food resources in the world's seas and oceans, and to a great extent, their physiology and behaviour have been shaped by their diet. These evolutionary forces have often caused species in different families and even orders to evolve similar strategies and adaptations to the same problems, leading to remarkable convergent evolution, such as that between auks and penguins. There are four basic feeding strategies, or ecological guilds, for feeding at sea: su...
Life history
Seabirds' life histories are dramatically different from those of land birds. In general, they are K-selected, live much longer (anywhere between twenty and sixty years), delay breeding for longer (for up to ten years), and invest more effort into fewer young. Most species will only have one clutch a year, unless they lose the first (with a few exceptions, like the Cassin's auklet), and many species (like the tubenoses and sulids) will only lay one egg a year. Care of young is protracted, ext...
Seabirds and fisheries
Seabirds have had a long association with both fisheries and sailors, and both have drawn benefits and disadvantages from the relationship. Fishermen have traditionally used seabirds as indicators of both fish shoals, underwater banks that might indicate fish stocks, and of potential landfall. In fact, the known association of seabirds with land was instrumental in allowing the Polynesians to locate tiny landmasses in the Pacific. Seabirds have provided food for fishermen away from home, as w...
Exploitation
The hunting of seabirds and the collecting of seabird eggs have contributed to the declines of many species, and the extinction of several, including the great auk and the spectacled cormorant. Seabirds have been hunted for food by coastal peoples throughout history—one of the earliest instances known is in southern Chile, where archaeological excavations in middens has shown hunting of albatrosses, cormorants and shearwaters from 5000 BP. This pressure has led to some species becoming extinc...
Other threats
Other human factors have led to declines and even extinctions in seabird populations and species. Of these, perhaps the most serious are introduced species. Seabirds, breeding predominantly on small isolated islands, are vulnerable to predators because they have lost many behaviours associated with defence from predators. Feral cats can take seabirds as large as albatrosses, and many introduced rodents, such as the Pacific rat, take eggs hidden in burrows. Introduced goats, cattle, rabbits an...
The following are the groups of birds normally classed as seabirds.[citation needed] Sphenisciformes(Antarctic and southern waters; 16 species) 1. Spheniscidae penguins Procellariiformes(Tubenoses: pan-oceanic and pelagic; 93 species) 1. Diomedeidae albatrosses 2. Procellariidae fulmars, prions, shearwaters, gadfly and other petrels 3. Pelacanoidid...
Furness, R. W.; P. Monaghan (1987). Seabird Ecology. Tertiary Level Biology. New York: Chapman and Hall. ISBN 978-1-4613-2093-7. OCLC 14069804.
Five years later, Tom, a missionary, and his bride Ruth are on the way to establish a mission at Paroa, in the Java Sea. En route, Tom catches island-fever, and their vessel is captured by a pirate calling himself Captain Blaze Devine.
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