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Baleen Whales

One of two suborders of Cetacea (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), Baleen whales, also called whalebone whales, have baleen plates rather than teeth for filtering food from water. They are divided into four recognized families based on their internal and external characteristics.

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Are right whales baleen whale?

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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.

Do baleen whales eat shrimp?

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Baleen whales eat a diet of small fish and zooplankton. Their diet changes depending on where they are. In the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, they live on krill, a small shrimp-like zooplankton. In the waters of the Arctic, however, the same species of whale will eat small fish instead. These whales are filter feeders. They take a great mouth full of water and then close their mouths and squirt the water back out through the baleen which acts like a sieve, letting out the water but trapping any fish or plankton in the baleen. Often the whales feed cooperatively. 'Bubble-netting' is a good example of this where several whales swim in ever smaller circles around a school of fish or krill blowing bubbles as they go, herding their prey into a tight mass, then swimming up through the concentrated school of prey with their mouths open. Some migrating whales, like the humpback, may not feed for several months while they are migrating and in the tropics, feeding again only on their return to colder waters during the summer.

What are three groups of Baleen whales?

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What are the adaptations of the baleen whale?

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The Blue Whale is part of Balaenoptera musculus family, Chordata phylum, Vertebrata subphylum, Mammalia class, Cetacea order. It is the largest animal that has ever lived. Blue whales can reach a length of 100 ft and weigh 120 tons. It is bluish grey in color and has a dorsal fin. It is toothless and has fringed baleen, or whalebone, plates in its mouth, which act as a food strainer. Blue whales may live 100 years or more.

Are whales primates?

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No.

How big is a baleen whale?

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There are several species of baleen whales, and the're different in size.

Baleen whales include some of the largest suborders of whales, the blue whales, humpback whales, gray whales and right whales. The blue whale is the largest. It can grow to 33 meters or 110 feet. The blue whale can also weigh as much as 280 metric tons or 200 short tons.

Is the orca a baleen whale or a toothed whale?

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The orca or killer whale is a toothed whales belonging to the oceanic dolphin family Delphinidae. They need their teeth as they are apex predators who have even been seen trying to kill blue whales!

What is the baleen of whales made of?

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Baleens are made of Keratin, the same stuff as nails and hair.

What is the largest baleen whale?

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the minke whale or the southern right but that's a right whale

What kind of food baleen whales eat?

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Baleen whales use their baleen plates to filter feed. They eat small fish, krill and plankton.

How many baleen whales are there in the world?

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baleen is a family name of 14 whales. The total population of all 14 is between 1.41 Million and 2.451 Million. However, this doesn't include Omura Whales as there is no known population of them.

What ocean zone baleen whales live?

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Whales migrate all over the ocean at certain times of the seasons.

What are any of the several baleen whales?

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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.

Do whale have blowholes?

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No whale sharks don't have blow holes they have gills like other sharks

Is a narwhal a baleen whale?

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No, a narwhal isn't a baleen whale. Whales belong to the cetaceous mammalian order that also includes walruses, porpoises, and dolphins. The cetaceous mammalian order is divided into two suborders. One is called Odontoceti, which includes the toothed whales such as narwhals. The other suborder is called Mysticeti, which includes the baleen whales which use plates to filter food from water.

Do baleen whales eat phytoplankton?

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Yes. The blue water takes in large amounts of water and krill into it's mouth and pushes out the water through filters, also called baleen, in it's mouth, leaving the krill, or plankton behind, which the whale then swallows. It's easier for the whale to swallow the krill, if it does not have to swallow a lot of water with it.

Are Baleen whales and Blue whales the same?

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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.

What are 2 other types of baleen whales?

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•Bowhead Whale, Northern and Southern Right Whale, Pygmy Right, Gray Whale, Humpback Whale, Blue Whale, Fin Whale, Sei Whale, Bryde's Whale,and the Minke Whale.

Is whale a predator?

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All whales use predation, just not in how we commonly think of it, such as with the great Blue Whales, which eat Krill or Sperm Whales, which hunt Giant and Colossal Squid. All whales eat some form of animal, thus making them predators.

Do sharks eat baleen whales?

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Baleen whales are filter feeders. They can't swallow anything larger than a grapefruit. And they don't have any teeth to take a shark apart with. So no.

How do baleen whales and toothed whales obtain food?

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Baleen whales just "smile" and swim. While they do that, tiny organisms called krill will get caught in the whale's baleen. Free food whenever needed!

Toothed whales have to hunt for their food. Some whales go in groups while others don't. They just hunt down the prey, eat what they want, then leave before the sharks smell the blood and go into a frenzy.

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