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Does a humpback have teeth?
Humpback whales are a species of baleen whale, meaning that they do not have teeth; rather, they have baleen plates that they use to filter seawater and extract small prey animals.
What animal has baleen plates?
an animal that has baleen plates in the monkey is the most common for this rare decease and it cannot be cured.
What are the plates called in a whales mouth?
Baleen plates are used by baleen whales to filter krill out of a mouthful of sea water.
How many baleen plates are in a gray whale?
Baleen whales have a series of 130-180 fringed, overlapping baleen plates hanging like curtains from each side of the upper jaw. Baleen is made of a fingernail-like material called keratin. The plates are off-white and about 2-10 inch long. Baleen plates filter water out and trap food in, the baleen is replaced about every 5 years.
What plate do whales use to collect food?
Baleen plates - which are made out of a protein called keratin. Baleen whales have several hundred baleen plates that they use to filter their food from the sea water.
What is the difference between the blue whale and the killer whale?
There are two distinct groups of whales, toothed and baleen whales. The baleen whale is a baleen whale due to its baleen plates in the mouth instead of teeth. The killer whale has teeth which means it chews its food and eats larger animals. The blue whale eats krill and other little organisms floating in the water. The baleen plates allow the whale to take in water and the krill and pushes the water through the plates which hold back the krill and other larger organisms, it then swallows the food that was left behind. This is the main distinction between the two whales.
What is a sentence with the word baleen?
What does baleen mean? This could be a sentence. Baleen = the horny, elastic plates that hang down in fringed, parallel columns from the upper jaw or palate of baleen whales and serve as a strainer that catches plankton while a whale is feeding The baleen plates of a blue whale may be up to 1 meter long
What group of whales eats krill?
Baleen whales eat krill (by filtering it through their baleen plates; hence the name).
What do some whales have instead of teeth?
Baleen plates for filtering food
1.What special feature does a baleen whale have to let it eat the food it eat the food it wants?
Baleen Whales filter their food. They are filter feeders. They take in a lot of water and their baleen plates filter the food from the water.
What are any of the several baleen whales?
Baleen whales are characterized by having baleen plates for filtering food from water, rather than having teeth. Living Mysticeti species have teeth only during the embryonal phase. Fossil Mysticeti had teeth before baleen evolved. The suborder contains four families and fourteen species.
Is a bow head whale baleen or toothed?
The Bowhead Whale is a baleen whale. A quick way to tell is to check the scientific name, Balaena mysticetus. Balaena indicates that it is considered a baleen whale. Baleen whales have a number of identifying characteristics but the key is baleen plates instead of teeth. Bowheads use their baleen to filter their food.
