Indian Ocean Animals Facts

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Indian Ocean Animals Facts. The indian ocean is the warmest ocean basin on earth. Because of the high temperature of the indian ocean phytoplankton cannot grow properly and hence, the marine life diversity is very limited in the ocean.

Stock Photo morey eel, Sodwana Bay, South
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Interesting facts about the indian ocean. Amazon rainforest animals animals from africa animals from america animals from asia animals from central america animals from europe animals from north america animals from oceania animals from south america animals that live in grasslands arctic animals arctic ocean animals atlantic ocean animals aves bird caribbean animals carnivore. The pacific, atlantic, indian, arctic, and southern.

The indian ocean is known as ratnākara “the mine of gems” in ancient sanskrit literature, and as hind mahāsāgar “the great indian sea”, in hindi.

The warmth of the water inhibits the growth of phytoplankton and severely limits the amount of marine animals this area of the ocean can support. Read on to discover 10 interesting facts about the indian ocean. However, indian ocean has many other interesting facts and characteristic compares to other world’s ocean. Like other islands in the indian ocean, there are many endemic species, of which some have come very close to extinction.

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