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What are the plates called in a whales mouth?
Baleen plates are used by baleen whales to filter krill out of a mouthful of sea water.
How many baleen plates are in a gray whale?
Baleen whales have a series of 130-180 fringed, overlapping baleen plates hanging like curtains from each side of the upper jaw. Baleen is made of a fingernail-like material called keratin. The plates are off-white and about 2-10 inch long. Baleen plates filter water out and trap food in, the baleen is replaced about every 5 years.
What plate do whales use to collect food?
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.
What animal eats Baleen whales?
The orca is the only animal that dares to try to eat the baleen whale.
Do porpoises have comblike plates for capturing food?
No. The animal being referred to are the baleen whales, such as the bowhead or the gray whale, which subsist on krill strained from seawater.
What is a sentence with the word baleen?
What does baleen mean? This could be a sentence. Baleen = the horny, elastic plates that hang down in fringed, parallel columns from the upper jaw or palate of baleen whales and serve as a strainer that catches plankton while a whale is feeding The baleen plates of a blue whale may be up to 1 meter long
What group of whales eats krill?
Baleen whales eat krill (by filtering it through their baleen plates; hence the name).
What do some whales have instead of teeth?
Baleen plates for filtering food
1.What special feature does a baleen whale have to let it eat the food it eat the food it wants?
Baleen Whales filter their food. They are filter feeders. They take in a lot of water and their baleen plates filter the food from the water.
Is a baleen whale a producer canivore herbivore or omnivore?
A baleen whale is not a producer; it is a herbivore. Baleen whales primarily feed on plankton and small fish by filter feeding using baleen plates in their mouths to trap food particles.
Is a bow head whale baleen or toothed?
The Bowhead Whale is a baleen whale. A quick way to tell is to check the scientific name, Balaena mysticetus. Balaena indicates that it is considered a baleen whale. Baleen whales have a number of identifying characteristics but the key is baleen plates instead of teeth. Bowheads use their baleen to filter their food.
An animal that has no front incisors?
A whale that has baleen instead of teeth. The baleen is used to filter plankton from the sea water.
