Fin whales are warm blooded as they are mammals. All mammals share similar characxteristics and one of them is that they are warm blooded creatures.
In the summer fin whales migrate to cold waters and in the winter fin whales migrate to warm waters.
Generally they are cold blooded. However, some tuna, shark and swordfish have warm blooded features. The Blue Fin Tuna use various techniques to keep their muscles and system warm such as having swimming muscles near the center of their bodies instead of near the surface. They are also able to warm their entire bodies through a heat exchange mechanism called the rete-mirabile, which helps minimize the loss of heat through the gills. Blue Fin Tuna must eat more food than other tuna to help maintain their ability to produce heat.
Fin whales have two pectoral fins and a dorsal fin.
No. Whales are aquatic, meaning they live in water, preferably oceans. And tundra is land. Basically a cold prarie.
No. Blue whales have mated with fin whales.
They tend to live in the colder water regions. They are found in less commonly in the tropics. Fin whales are found in deep, offshore waters of all major oceans.
Yes, fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) are classified as Endangered.
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There are estimated to be 3,000 fin whales off California, Oregon and Washington.
Fin Whales are hunted in Greenland with a limit of 19 per year.Collisions with ships are an additional major cause of Fin Whale mortality.
Fin whales have been listed as endangered since the early 1970s. Fin whales populations in the North Atlantic, however, now number 53,000, close to its historic size.
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