an animal that has baleen plates in the monkey is the most common for this rare decease and it cannot be cured.
Baleen plates are used by baleen whales to filter krill out of a mouthful of sea water.
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.
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.
No. The animal being referred to are the baleen whales, such as the bowhead or the gray whale, which subsist on krill strained from seawater.
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
The orca is the only animal that dares to try to eat the baleen whale.
Baleen whales eat krill (by filtering it through their baleen plates; hence the name).
Baleen plates for filtering food
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.
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.
The fin whale is a rorqual whale, the same family as the blue whale. It feeds by filtering krill trough huge plates of a horny substance called baleen. So yes, it is a baleen whale.
Baleen whales use their baleen plates to filter feed. They eat small fish, krill and plankton.