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Title: animals(killer whales)
Post by: lostlogan1022 on Feb 2, 2011
please answer this quickly!! i need it for tomorrow!!

explain how killer whales reacts to external stimuli and internal stimuli? and what kind of responses??


Title: Re: animals(killer whales)
Post by: bio_man on Feb 2, 2011
This is a specific question. I'm wondering what year this is for :thi:

Internal - physiological events (hormones, nervous system)
External stimuli - changes in daylength, sound

Whales react to acoustic signals from other whales through sound waves.

Not sure really...


Title: Re: animals(killer whales)
Post by: lostlogan1022 on Feb 2, 2011
its for my 7th grade honor science class.

so the whales internal stimuli is horomones and the nervous sytem but what is the responses??

im just so CONFUSED!! ???


Title: Re: animals(killer whales)
Post by: duddy on Feb 2, 2011
Hey lostlogan1022,

Some migrating animals, including killer and beluga whales, apparently sense Earth's magnetic field and use the information, along with other cues, for orientation when moving from once place to another.


Title: Re: animals(killer whales)
Post by: duddy on Feb 2, 2011
By the way, those are specialized electromagnetic receptors. I'm guessing most of this information would be found in your textbook.


Title: Re: animals(killer whales)
Post by: lostlogan1022 on Feb 2, 2011
By the way, those are specialized electromagnetic receptors. I'm guessing most of this information would be found in your textbook.

we dont have textbooks for home:( thanks for the help!!:)