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What do baleen whales do after filtering small animals from the water?
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Swallow them. That is how that type of whale gets its food.
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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.
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.
Why do non toohted blue whales have two blowholes?
Toothes whales eat other animals such as seals, fish and squid. Baleen whales have thick brush like baleen and eat by straining sea water through the baleen to filter out microscopic plants and animals.The toothed whale have teeth but, the baleen whale have baleen. The toothed whale have jaws lined with sharp teeth but, the baleen whales have baleen hung from upper jaw. The toothed whale feed on fish, squid, etc. but, baleen whales feed on small sea life.Baleen whales, or odontocetes whales, have baleen.Toothed whales, or mysticetes whales, have teeth.
WHAT DO BALEEN WHALES LEARN?
Baleen whales eat krill, zooplankton and small fish swarming in large schools. Because baleen whales have no teeth, they are believed to uses their enormous tongue to move food trapped inside the baleen, to squeeze water out of the mouth, and to assist the action of swallowing.
Are baleen whales more social then toothed whales?
Baleen whales are less social than toothed whales baleen whales are normally found in small groups or alone where as the killer whale a species of toothed whale is noted to be very playful and inquisitive of humans and are very social creatures who live in large pods.
Are killer whales teeth sharp?
No. There are toothed whales and baleen whales. Baleen whales do not have teeth; the baleen is like a strainer that hangs down from the upper part of the mouth and lets the whale catch plankton, shrimp, small squid, and other small sea creatures. ([P.S] Hope I helped you)
What is the main food of the baleen whales?
Human body parts
Is a baleen whale a toothed whale?
Baleen whales and toothed whales are two DIFFERENT kinds of whales. A whale can only be either-or. Baleen whales are filter feeders, they eat a "soup" of small stuff they filter out from the sea. Toothed whales eat things big enough to catch one by one, or to bite chunks out of.
Why dont blue whales eat sharks and other whales even if they are so big that they could eat a bus?
Because they have baleen, not teeth. Baleen are long strips of a material that is similar to fingernails, which are in their mouth. Through the baleen they strain the water of the ocean, to get food of small marine animals. They also only have a throat big enough to fit a book
What is the main difference of the two kinds of whales please answer my question little boy's happiness?
baleen whales are larger than toothed whales. Baleen whales have two blowholes on the top of there heads.Baleen whales are solitary most of the time and they eat small fish and plankton.
What did whales hunt?
Baleen whales feed on krill and small fish. Sperm Whales feed on squid. Killer whales feed on rays, seals and other whales.
Do humpback whales eat other whales?
No. Humpback whales only eat krill, small fish, etc. Basically, they only eat animals that are much smaller than they are.Humpbacks are baleen whales, filter feeders. They don't have the teeth to eat anything that big.
