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When do people hunt whales?

For the bone of the whale


How many bone are there in a whale's body?

There are 356 in a blue whales body


What is the leg bone called in a whale?

Sorry, whales don't have leg bones.


What did whale inherite from hummans?

scientist have found out that whales have hip bone just like humans


Why is a whales neck shortened to a single bone mass?

Try to picture a whale with a long neck!


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.


Is the entire whale used in whale hunting?

Not always. The blubber is used for oil, and the whale bone can be used for carvings and other things. The rest of the whales body is thrown overboard.


Does the killer whale have a back bone?

Yes. Whales are in Class Placenta, Subphylum Vertebrata, Phylum Chordata.


Why do people hunt whales and what are they used for?

Peolpe hunt whales for many reasons. The whale meat is eaten by humans. The fat gives the oil used in the treatment of skin and also used for food inhomes of the Eskimos. The teeth of the whale (whale bone) used in the manufacture of buttons and various other objects, while the bones are very good fertilizer for plants.


What are the people who catch whales?

People hunt whales for meat, bone and all other parts of the body to make all sorts of everyday things, such as oil and make-up


How do whales knit?

About the only way a whale can knit is to knit two broken bone ends together. This is the normal healing process of a fractured bone. Whales do not have the manual dexterity to knit in terms of forming stretchy stitches out of loops of yarn.


Why does a whale have a pelvis bone even though its not used?

''it is because whales evolved over time during a point around 48 million years ago they were land animals so they needed their pelvic bone but as the whale evolved it kept that trait just as humans evolved and kept some unnecessary traits like wisdom teeth or an extra kidney''