Mon, 19 Jan 98:
With the assistance of "our friend," the following information is offered on the relative to the Loch Ness Monsters. These are "salt water" species. They were separated from their "fresh water relatives" when the level of the oceans receded.
Category: Prehistoric
Existence: 500,000 years
Cold/Warm Bloodied: Cold Bloodied
Number now living: 193
Average length of male: 87 feet
Average length of female: 79 feet
Average weight of male: 3,100 pounds
Average weight of female: 2,800 pounds
Average life span: 3,000 years
Female reproductive: Starts around 225 to 250 years old - Gestation period is 125 years - females still producing "mostly one, sometimes two live birth"
Habitat: They tend "to stay in packs" and live in the deepest depths of the oceans - Atlantic, Pacific, Japan/China Sea, some parts of the Indian Ocean
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