A form my Akashic will be practicing
Oct. 24th, 2002 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynon the current VicMage trip from the coast near Mount Olympus (nee Annapurna) to the Westlands:
Dall's Porpoise
Phocoenidae dalli
Description - This porpoise has a stocky, black body with large white sections on the flanks and belly. The head is small and beakless. They are 6 to 8 feet long, weighing up to 400 pounds.
Distribution - They are commonly seen offshore and inshore from southern California to Alaska. Being a deepwater animal it comes close to shore where their are canyons or deep channels. Sightings are common in Hecate Strait, Queen Charlotte Strait, Juan de Fuca Strait, and exposed seaways like Queen Charlotte Sound, Dixon Entrance and Fitzhugh Sound.
Biology - This is the fastest swimmer of the cetacean reaching speeds of up to 35 mph. They kick up a rooster tail of spray when they surface and are enthusiastic bow riders on boats. Dall's Porpoise feeds on a wide variety of fish, squid and crustaceans. The killer whale is known to attack Dall's Porpoise; many die each year in fishing gear intended to catch fish and human hunters who relish porpoise meat are another enemy. They are not threatened in the west coast range.
I should note that the info above is from a tourism site for British Columbia. Dall's porpoise also lives in the waters off Japan and is regularly sighted in Monterey Bay, California. Their only competitors for the Holy !*)& That's Fast award are orca - an orca was clocked doing 34.5 miles per hour in 1958 and a lot of sources still cite that orca as the fastest cetacean ever. The Dall's porpoise wins hands down, though. THEY don't require my boy to come up with enough Life successes to grow to 27 feet long and 10 tons in body weight. Hell, the one time Ho turned into a dinosaur, he didn't even change to anything that big. (It was a Jurassic Park-sized velociraptor. He needed claws.) He'd have seen the porpoise somewhere, either while traveling in Japan or on some trip to Monterey back in the states, and that incredible spray they kick up behind them would have stuck in his memory.
Hm. Ho's shapechange roster so far stands at:
A Caucasian human of slightly greater height, paler skin, slenderer build, and different colouring altogether than himself
A Velociraptor
A Nyimi male
Patrick Stewart (he needed to look like a Roman and 'I Claudius' was in the back of his mind)
One of these guys
And he turned someone else, briefly, into Patricia Tallman, but I hardly think that counts.
Dall's Porpoise
Phocoenidae dalli
Description - This porpoise has a stocky, black body with large white sections on the flanks and belly. The head is small and beakless. They are 6 to 8 feet long, weighing up to 400 pounds.
Distribution - They are commonly seen offshore and inshore from southern California to Alaska. Being a deepwater animal it comes close to shore where their are canyons or deep channels. Sightings are common in Hecate Strait, Queen Charlotte Strait, Juan de Fuca Strait, and exposed seaways like Queen Charlotte Sound, Dixon Entrance and Fitzhugh Sound.
Biology - This is the fastest swimmer of the cetacean reaching speeds of up to 35 mph. They kick up a rooster tail of spray when they surface and are enthusiastic bow riders on boats. Dall's Porpoise feeds on a wide variety of fish, squid and crustaceans. The killer whale is known to attack Dall's Porpoise; many die each year in fishing gear intended to catch fish and human hunters who relish porpoise meat are another enemy. They are not threatened in the west coast range.
I should note that the info above is from a tourism site for British Columbia. Dall's porpoise also lives in the waters off Japan and is regularly sighted in Monterey Bay, California. Their only competitors for the Holy !*)& That's Fast award are orca - an orca was clocked doing 34.5 miles per hour in 1958 and a lot of sources still cite that orca as the fastest cetacean ever. The Dall's porpoise wins hands down, though. THEY don't require my boy to come up with enough Life successes to grow to 27 feet long and 10 tons in body weight. Hell, the one time Ho turned into a dinosaur, he didn't even change to anything that big. (It was a Jurassic Park-sized velociraptor. He needed claws.) He'd have seen the porpoise somewhere, either while traveling in Japan or on some trip to Monterey back in the states, and that incredible spray they kick up behind them would have stuck in his memory.
Hm. Ho's shapechange roster so far stands at:
A Caucasian human of slightly greater height, paler skin, slenderer build, and different colouring altogether than himself
A Velociraptor
A Nyimi male
Patrick Stewart (he needed to look like a Roman and 'I Claudius' was in the back of his mind)
One of these guys
And he turned someone else, briefly, into Patricia Tallman, but I hardly think that counts.
That has to be an interesting story.
Date: 2002-10-24 08:20 am (UTC)Re: That has to be an interesting story.
Date: 2002-10-24 08:33 am (UTC)