How does the whale control the direction of its swim?

Answer 1

They float, even though though they are heavy on land, in water they move easily and gracefully. They move there muscular tails for propulsion, and may use flippers ans the angle of their body for direction.

Answer 2

A whale flaps its tail up, and down in the same way you would fan yourself on a hot summers day. * A whale moves it's fluke (correct terminology for its tail fins) in a vertical motion to thrust its body forward. Let me decipher what is already posted here. A whale's tail fins run sidewards, not up and down. Horizontal, not vertical. When they move their tails up and down, it sends the front end of the whale forward. Additional Info: The end of the whale's tail, holds the "fluke", or "tail fins". This provides propulsion by vertical movement, helping the whales swim through the water, and researchers identify individuals. *Note: The term "vertical" is roughly speaking something, in the up and down direction. While the term, "horizontal" is normally used in everyday life as, in the left to right direction. For more details, please see sites listed below.

Answer 3

A new study might be shedding some light on the way whales navigate. At any rate, it has shown that the whales travel in surprisingly precise paths.

Travis Horton and colleagues reported in the British JournalBiology Letters that whales tracked from Brazil to Antarctica travel 50-90 miles per day and "move in a straight line for hundreds of kilometers."

Horton suspects that the whales may be using a combination of the Earth's magnetic field and the position of the sun to navigate. Despite the potential for winds and currents to throw them off course, the whales stayed less than 1 degree off course. The whale that was tracked the longest - over 28 days and 1,386 miles - veered just 0.4 degrees off course.

Answer 4

They swim though the water, eating plankton.

Answer 5

with flippers

They move their tail fin up and down to swim, if that's what you mean.

Answer 6

they sort of squirm like worms kinda but they also use their fins and their tale to steer and they use ocen currents

Answer 7

whales swim because of the fins and tail the tail goes up and down and the fins go up and down which helps them swim

Answer 8

Its pectoral fins allow it to fly through the water and its tail is for propulsion and up and down movement.

Answer 9

Up and down.

Answer 10

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