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What characterisics would be used to classify whales as mammals?
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Do mammals have different skin types?
Yes, mammals have different skin types. To cite one example, whales, which are mammals, live their entire lives in salt water. What happens to your hands after you've been in the water for a few hours? Whales don't have this problem because their skin is different than ours. The number of different skin types in mammals would depend on how you chose to classify skin types, and there are different ways of classifying skin. yes
How do rabbits evolve into whales?
I would never have thought that rabbits had anything to do with whales let alone evolve into them. The only similarity that they share is that they are both mammals.
What are the physical similarities between elephants and whales?
Well, elephants and whales are both water drinking, mammals that live in the wild. My answer would be: Like all mammals, whales & elephants breathe air, are warm blooded, nurse their young with milk from mammary glands (boobs), and have body hair. Both are large in size.
Are killer whales like whales?
You would have to define how you are comparing them. Whales are mammals and sharks are fish. They are both top predators, they both swim in the ocean, have fins and share a lot of other things, but have a lot of differences also.
Is there any difference between gray whale's migration and hibernation?
Whales do not hibernate- they would drown. They are mammals, and breathe air.
Do whales breath air?
Whales started out as land living mammals - some still have remains of hind legs in their bodies - which eventually somehow turned into sea-living mammals. And while many parts of their bodies changed to fit a swimming lifestyle, they still breathe air, with lungs. If whales and dolphins did not come up to the surface to breathe, they would drown and there would not be any dolphins or whales!!
Is a whale the biggest relative to a dinosaur?
No. Whales are not relatives of dinosaurs; they are mammals. The largest living relative of dinosaurs would be the saltwater crocodile.
Are wolverines mammals?
Well....i think he would be a mammal but is he even real????? Wolverines are mammals.
Why must whales have blood that is tolerant of CO2?
The length of their dives causes a buildup of carbon dioxide which would be harmful to most other mammals.
Where do whales have hair?
answ2. Some defining characteristics of mammals are :- that they have hair; that they have 3-boned ears; that they have a 1-boned jaw, Warm-blooded, and so on. So Whales DO have hair - not much for it would impede their motion.
What is interesting about orcas?
Orcas are not whales. They are the only marine mammals that would eat another whale. Orcas are the fastest of marine mammals. Shamu (at sea world oralado) is the most famous marine mammal! ( He is an orca )
Do blue whales breath under water?
Mammals don't breathe under water. They hold their breath like you or I would...except their lungs are gigantic and they can hold their breath for hours. No they don't. Whales are mammals and thus need to breathe like most mammals do. In order to breathe, whales have blow holes on their heads. They come up to the surface of the water, bring their blow hole out of the water, open it and take in air, and then go back under water again. No basically.
