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.
=Also called whalebone, Baleen is on the upper jaw of a whale's mouth. Baleen filters small partials and food like plankton and small fish.=
Baleen whales,and Humpback whales.these are just some I know
Some kinds of baleen whales are grey whales, right whales, humpback whales, and blue whales.
A type of whale tooth
Yes, but they can also eat small fish
rorqual
Baleen whales belong in the whale family called the rorqual.
rorqual
Baleen whales have a baleen instead of teeth. They are like toothbrushes, bristly on the inside, and can be several feet long. Baleen whales use their baleen to eat food.
Definition for Baleen Whale: Any whale that has baleen or is a odontocetes whale.So, they are not technically same thing, but a blue whale is a type of baleen or odontocetes whale. This is because other whales have baleen, such as the Right Whale.
Bowhead whales are baleen whales.
Baleen plates - which are made out of a protein called keratin. Baleen whales have several hundred baleen plates that they use to filter their food from the sea water.
Baleen
Baleen Whales.
There are two groups of whales: baleen and toothed. Baleen whales consist mostly of roquals who have streamlined bodies and are capable of fast speeds for short bursts. Gray and Right whales are baleen but in a separate family of their own. There are several groups of toothed whales: ocean dolphins, river dolphins, belguas and narwhals, beaked whales, sperm whales, and porpoises.
baleen whales are much larger than toothed whales
All whales incl baleen whales are warm blooded.
Yes, right whales are baleen whales. They have no teeth. They have baleen, whalebone, to strain out water and keep in plankton, krill and shrimp to swallow and eat.