Man-O-War vs. Saiga

Typhoid · 11-27-2009, 02:46 PM

Man-O-War:

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It is rare for only a single Portuguese Man O' War to be found; the discovery of one usually indicates the presence of many as they are usually congregated by currents and winds into groups of thousands.
The man-of-war design developed by Sir John Hawkins had three masts, could be up to 200 feet long and could have up to 124 guns: 4 at the front, 8 at the back, and 56 on each side.
The sail must stay wet to ensure survival and every so often the Portuguese Man O' War may roll slightly to wet the surface of the sail. To escape a surface attack, the sail can be deflated allowing the Man O' War to briefly submerge

Saiga:

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During the Ice Age the saiga ranged from the British Isles through Central Asia and the Bering Strait into Alaska and the Yukon. At the beginning of the 18th century it was still distributed from the shores of the Black Sea, the Carpathian foothills and the northern edge of the Caucasus into Dzungaria and Mongolia.
After a rapid decline they were nearly completely exterminated in the 1920s, but they were able to recover and by 1950 there were again two million of them in the steppes of the USSR. At one point, some conservation groups, such as the World Wildlife Fund, encouraged the hunting of this species as its horn was presented as an alternative to that of a rhinoceros.