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Is the humpback whale an odontocete?
No, the humpback whale is not an odontocete; it is a member of the baleen whale suborder, Mysticeti. Odontocetes, or toothed whales, include species like dolphins, sperm whales, and orcas, which have teeth instead of baleen plates. Humpback whales filter-feed using baleen to consume small fish and krill.
What kind of whales have no teeth?
THE TOOTHLESS WHALES: blue whales, finback whales, right whales, sei whales, humpback whales, and gray whales. THE TOOTHED WHALES: white beluga whales, black beluga whales (pilot whales), orcas (killer whales), sperm whales.
Do sperm whales have teeth or baleen?
They have teeth because they are toothed whales.
Are pilot whale toothed or baleen?
they are teeth not Baleen whales
DO minke whales have teeth or do they have baleen?
Minke whales are baleen whales, not toothed ones. Hope this helped.
What are whales with teeth called?
The whales with teeth are called toothed whales. The ones that don't have teeth are called baleen whales. Baleen whales use filters to drain out water from plankton.
How much teeth does a humpback have?
How many teeth? None. Humpbacks are baleen whales.
What is the name of a whales teeth?
A toothed whale (dolphins, porpoises, killer whales, beluga whales, narwhals, sperm whales)'s teeth are just called teeth. A baleen whale (blue whale, right whale, gray whale, humpback whales)'s teeth are called baleen.
Has a whale got teeth?
It depends, there are two types of whales, baleen whales and toothed whales, toothed whales as you would expect have teeth for chewing or tearing into food, examples are dolphins and killer whales. But baleen whales like the humpback do not have teeth at all instead they have a plate of bone like material made up of the same material as finger nails, which they use to filter feed.
Does having no teeth cause a problem for the whales?
Many whales do have teeth; that is why they are called toothed whales. Baleen whales don't need teeth because their baleen plates filter out the plankton they eat.
How large are sperm whales teeth?
Sperm whales have 70 teeth, depending on their age.
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.
