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Yes. They are cetaceans and are not considered fish. They are warm-blooded, air breathing (through a blowhole), that give birth to live young that nurse from milk produced by the mother -- all characteristics that categorize them as mammals. And yes, they do have a bit of hair or fur, another thing that classifies them as mammals. Whales typically lose theirs after birth while most dolphins have a bit around their blowholes for life.
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Whales are Cold-Blooded Animals True Or False?
Whales are mammals. All mammals are warm blooded. The answer is therefore false.
What mammals are fish?
No true fish are mammals. There are marine mammals such as the dolphin, orca, and whales.
Are all whales vertebrates?
All true whales are mammals, therefore also vertebrates.
Why don't killer whales have gills?
All whales are mammals and need to breath air from the surface.
Are porpoises considered mammals?
TRUE
Is it true that whales and dolphins are all mammals that evolved in the oceans during the tertiary period?
yes they evolved from the trilobites
Why isn't the whale shark the biggest mammal in the world?
It is the biggest shark, but sharks are fish, not mammals. The largest mammals are the true whales, including the blue whale, the largest species.
Is it true whale is the largest fish?
Whales are mammals, not fish. The whale shark is the largest fish, growing to fifty feet or more.
Why is a killer whale endangered animal?
Not at the present.Killer whales are not true whales,but the largest species of dolphin.Killer whales are found in all seas,and at present their numbers seem to be stable,But as with most spectacular mammals,they must be monitered from time to time in case any problems arise.
Which is not a type of whale orca beluga or barracuda?
Trick question: the barracuda is obviously not a whale. What is not so obvious is that orcas, although called killer whales, are also not true whales. Orcas are members of the same family of mammals as porpoises and dolphins.
Cetateans whales and dolphins evolved from terrestrial air breating mammals true or false?
Actually, that is true. The fossil record shows that whales, dolphins and other air-breathing mammals that live in the sea did actually evolve from land mammals.Check any book on evolutionary biology for details.Answer:True as said above. Evolutionarily speaking all mammals evolved from the same land dwelling proto-mammal. Later the cetaceans moved back into water to fill up a niche in the aquatic system where they have survived ever since (rather successfully I might add).definitely true.
Is it true that all animals have lungs?
No, not all animals have lungs, fish and reptiles have gills, humans and mammals have lungs except whales and dolphin they have gills because they under water
