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Why would a mysticetes be found on earth?
The marine plankton (krill) is one huge amount of biomass. It is inevitable that marine animals or all types will have evolutionary branches to access this food source. The Mysticetes or Baleen Whales are the Cetacean answer to feeding on this food source.
Does killer whale has teeth?
Most definately. Killer Whales -- odonticetes -- are pure carnivores and do in fact have teeth. Mysticetes or baleen whales do not.
What is the purpose of baleen that's found in a whales mouth?
Baleen whales, or Mysticetes, are filter feeders. They suck in water and strain it to get the tiny animals, which they then swallow. The baleen acts like a strainer or seize to trap these planktors.
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.
Do you have any information of different types of whales?
Currently taxonomists divide the mysticetes into the following four families although recently the fact that the Gray Whale stands alone in the family Eschrichtiidae has been challenged. * Balaenopteridae - Rorquals * Eschrichtiidae - Gray Whale * Balaenidae - Right Whales * Neobalaenidae - Pygmy Right Whale The suborder Odontoceti, the largest within the order Cetacea, comprises the toothed whales, which includes all dolphins and porpoises. Between them, the ten families contain 36 genera and 70 species, which include Sperm Whales, White Whales, the little known Beaked Whales and Pilot and Killer Whales. The largest Odontocete or toothed whale is the Sperm Whale reaching lengths of 20 metres. An animal of great extremes the Sperm Whale has the largest brain of any animal and probably makes the deepest dive of any whale, possibly up to 3000 metres deep that may last up to two hours in duration. The Sperm Whale is truly global in its coverage and may be found in all oceans of the world. * Physeteridae - Sperm Whales * Kogiidae - Dwarf and Pygmy Sperm Whales * Monodontidae - White Whales and Narwhal * Ziphiidae - Beaked Whales and Bottlenose Whales * Delphinidae - Dolphins, Humpbacked Dolphins, Pilot & Killer Whales * Plantanistidae, Iniidae, Lipotidae, Pontoporiidae - River Dolphins * Phocoenidae - Porpoises
What are the major differences between a whale shark and a blue whale?
whale sharks have distinctive white spots in their heads, and blue whale are considerably bigger then. And I think blue sharks are more aggresive than whale sharks . _ The blue whale is the largest mammal on Earth. The underside of its flippers are almost white, while the rest of its body is blue grey. The average blue whale is 75 to 80 feet long and weigh up to 110 tonnes. Females are larger and can weigh up to 150 tonnes.The whale shark can be grey, blue or brown with white dots and light vertical stripes over its entire body. Their mouths are located in a terminal postition and can be opened wide to filter water for small fish, squid, crustaceans, and other plankton organisms. The whale shark is related to the nurse shark, and therefore has relatively small eyes, spiracles and barbels.------- A: The Whale Shark (Rhincondon typus), the largest of the sharks, is a member of class chondrichthyes; cartilagenous fish. In most sharks, the only actual "bones" are the denticles on the shark's skin and, in toothed sharks (not the WHale Shark), the teeth. The endoskeleton is cartilege. Sharks aren't warm blooded. The Whale Shark, like the Blue Whale, are both filter feeders. Blue Whales (Balaenoptera musculus), on the other hand are class mammalia--- they're mammals, as we are. They are warm blooded, have hair, bear and nurse their young alive. As with all Mysticetes (the sub class), they are filter feeders. So, in summary, whales and shark, including the Whale Shark and Blue Whale are taxonomically radically different, starting and Class, and only come together under phylum which, for both, is Chordata. A: A whale and a shark can not come from the same family but they can be similar.they both eat meat, they both stay with there family, and they both hunt for food.
How do marine animals navigate the oceans?
All pinnipeds and cetaceans depend on sound to some degree to sense the ocean environment, and some are known to use echolocation. Echolocation allows these animals to determine the distance of objects (food, predators) and features of the underwater environment (seafloor depth, topography) for navigation purposes. They accomplish this by projecting sounds, called sonar clicks, that are reflected back when the sounds strike an object. The farther away an object is, the longer it takes for the echo to return, allowing the echlocating animal to tell the distance. Echolocation makes it possible to navigate and feed at night and in deep or murky water, or at great distances where visual sensing would be ineffective. For example, a dolphin can detect a target the size of a golf ball almost a football field away, much farther than the dolphin can see underwater. Marine mammals also use underwater vocalizations to communicate with each other. Because sound waves travel efficiently in water, some ocean-dwelling animals are able to communicate over great distances through sound. Based on the few marine mammal species for which hearing has been tested to date, it appears that a given species' hearing is tuned to a broad range of frequencies with the greatest sensitivity typically encompassing the range of vocalizations and echolocation (for echolocating species).
What are all the breeds of whales you can get?
There are over 80 species of whales and dolphins divided into two subspecies (suborder); Odontocetes ( toothed whales) and Mysticetes (baleen whales). Whales and dolphins are both part of the cetaceans order but are part of 2 different families. Orcas are counted in the dolphin family because their teeth are cone shaped like a dolphins. porpoises are counted as dolphins also. All the ones i can think of are: Whales - Orca (killer whale, which is actually part of the dolphin family) Beluga Humpback Blue whale Finwhale Minke whale Sei whale Sperm whale Right whale Bowhead Grey whale Narwaal long-finned pilot whale short-finned pilot whale false killerwhale bryde's whale Dolphins and porpoises: Pacific white sided dolphin saddleback dolphin bottlenose dolphin spinner dolphin river dolphin atlantic spotted dolphin commerson's dolphin chilean dolphin heaviside's dolphin hector's dolphin rough-toothed dolphin indo-pacific bottlenosed dolphin atlantic humpback dolphin indian humpback dolphin pacific humpback dolphin tucuxi clymene dolphin pantropical spotted dolphin striped dolphin arabian common dolphin long beaked common dolphin fraser's dolphin atlantic white-sided dolphin dusky dolphin hourglass dolphin peale's dolphin white-beaked dolphin northern right whale dolphin southern right whale dolphin risso's dolphin melon headed whale pygmy killerwhale pygmy right whale pygmy sperm whale australian subfin dolphin irrawaddy dolphin Dals porpoise harbour porpoise there is a ridiculous amount of dolphins and porpoises and there are a lot more than i listed but theres just an idea of how many there really are!
