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The most inhospitable element of the oceans is the extreme cold. Little sunlight penetrates the water's surface, and the temperature can drop below freezing even at relatively shallow depths. To deal with this biting cold, whales have developed a thick layer of blubber all around their bodies.
Blubber, a layer of stored-up fat beneath the skin and above the muscles, acts as a blanket to hold in the whale's body heat. In colder seasons, this insulating layer is the only thing keeping whales from freezing to death. Whales also use their blubber to store up energy for future use. Some species will feed heavily for half the year, when food is plentiful, and fast the rest of the year, living off their built-up blubber layer.
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What do you call the fat of whales?
blubber blubber
Do blue whales have skin or blubber?
They are covered in Blubber.
What is blubber and why do Whales need it?
Blubber is whale fat.
Do beluga whales have blubber?
Yes. They do. Most of their blubber is in their melon.
Who needs blubber?
Whales
Are blubber from whales?
yup ;)
Do whales have meat or blubber?
Killer Whales (Orca orca) have a thick layer of blubber to keep them warm. Killer whales are a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family.
Is blubber of whales nonrenewable or renewable?
Well you can use blubber for oillamps
What are Orca whales covered by?
Blubber
What is a whales covering?
skin and blubber
Why were seals and whales hunted?
for their blubber
How can you use blubber in a sentence?
The blubber of marine mammals like whales helps to insulate them and regulate their body temperature in cold ocean waters.
