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Has a whale got teeth

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It depends, there are two types of whales, baleen whales and toothed whales, toothed whales as you would expect have teeth for chewing or tearing into food, examples are dolphins and killer whales. But baleen whales like the humpback do not have teeth at all instead they have a plate of bone like material made up of the same material as finger nails, which they use to filter feed.

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No, they have baleen.
No; the humpback whale has about 330 pairs of dark gray baleen plates with coarse gray bristles hanging from the jaws. They are about 25 inches (0.6 m) long and 13.5 inches (34 cm) wide.

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There are many different species of whales but one of the biggest differences in these whales are that some have teeth and others have baleens.

the sperm whale is a thoothed whale and the killer whale too.

The teeth of the toothed whales are a use of eating and the probability of fighting.Some people use these teeth to make drawings or carve them.

The baleen is located in the mouth of a baleen whale. The baleen is used for eating, the whales takes a big gulp of fish or krill( a type of food that the baleen whale enjoys) and with its tung it pushes out all the excess water to eat the fish.

The Baleen is a series of a straw like lines.

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Some do, some don't. The toothed whales have teeth (whoda thunk it?). The baleen whales don't, except briefly during the embryonic stage.

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Some whales have teeth: beluga whales have small white teeth.
Those that do are called toothed whales or Odontocetes.
no they don't

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not all whales have teeth, but some whales do.

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They dont have teeth they have baleen so they can filter their small food (like krill and small fish)

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No, they have baleen instead.

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Yes.

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