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Whales
The largest animals on earth, whales include a number of diverse species of aquatic mammals. Living their entire lives in the water, they have been a source of wonder to mankind.
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What is its called when a whales jump high out of the water?
Dolphins actually do not "jump" out of the water but more propel themselves towards the top of the water at a rate such that the dolphin appears to be jumping. This is a common misconception.
Yes, whales have ears, but they are embedded in the head. Whales to not have the large fleshy appendeges that land mammals use to capture sound and that are called the "outer ear." but whales have all the rest of the structure we call "ears" and they hear very well.
The heaviest killer whale weighed around 9-10 tons. The length was around 32-33 feet. This was from the wild.
Fin whales are usually dark gray dorsally and white ventrally, although they can appear brown when covered in a sheen of diatoms. They are dark gray on the left side of the head and white on the right. They also have a chevron on the back, between the pectoral fins.
What whale has one horn stinking out of the top of its head?
NARWHAL = The males of this species, and an occasional female, bear a single, tightly spiraled tusk that measures up to 9 ft (2.7 m) in length. This tusk is an overgrown upper central incisor tooth, generally the one on the left. It is found in the Arctic and N Atlantic oceans, occasionally as far south as Britain; narwhals usually travel in groups of 15 to 20 animals. The diet of narwhals consists chiefly of cuttlefish and cod. Mating occurs in the summer, and after a gestation of 14 months the female gives birth to a single blue-gray calf measuring up to 5 ft (1.5 m). The calves are weaned at six months. Formerly hunted for its tusk, which was believed to have magical properties, the narwhal is now hunted primarily for oil.
First of all, a Killer Whale is a dolphin. But if you question was rephrased to something like, "Could a Killer Whale out swim any other member of it's species?" then it would be valid.
Anyway, it depends on which type of dolphin is trying to out swim the Killer Whale. The Common dolphin is the fastest, and thus could out swim a Killer Whale. When it comes to smaller types of dolphin, they are about evenly matched.
How is a bird similar to a fish?
A bird is similar to a fish in that they both make eggs. They are also from the same kingdom chordates and are both vertebrates.
Do baleen whales live in the arctic?
Minke Whales don't live in the Arctic (near North Pole), they more go towards the Antarctic (near South Pole).
What is the word called when a fish jumps out of water?
A fish out of water?
technically you could call it breaching the surface i guess, but I would call it attempted suicide.
They are the largest living animals on earth. They are spectacular to watch. They can splash a large volume of water with their tails or by jumping out of the water and crashing back down on to the surface. They travel in family groups called pods. They exhale water and breath in air through a blow hole on the top of their head. They communicate through sounds that resemble songs. They can dive great distances by holding their breath.
What are the breed of whales the Japanese kill?
The Japanese more or less kill every breed of whale that they can get their hands on. They are, in most countries, especially Australia, considered common criminals because they slaughter whales in Australian waters without the government's permission or consent. Also, the whalers have destroyed many protesters' boats (including the $2m Ady Gil) and damaged many more. It has since been proved that they have used spy planes launched in Albany and Adelaide to evade the protesters' boats. Australia is trying to find a diplomatic solution, but says that if one cannot be reached by November 2010, they will take the Japanese Government to court. The battle continues...
If this offended any Japanese, I'm sorry. It's not meant to be rude in any way.
Do chestnuts come from under water?
No, i think you might be thinking of the chestnut barnacle which comes aboard to use the whale as a feeding station, it waves a whip like plum in the water to feed. It attaches to the whale but dies not hurt it. if you are interested i other barnacles checkout pics on google.
Yes a blue whale is an organism. Anything living is an organism, or a collection of organisms.
I defenitly hope that there will be but I really don't know
if there is it's gotta have bindi in it too who thinks so please discuss
What is the greatest depth a whale can dive to?
A Sperm Whale Can Dive Up To 9,800 Feet Deep. (Rounding Up To 10,000 Feet)
Do beluga whales have lungs or gills?
All whales have lungs. No whale has gills.
The whale Shark has gills, but that name comes from it being a Shark - a fish - the size of a whale.
What whale can hold breath for hour?
sperm whales have been known to hold their breath for more than an hour.
Is there any realtion between dogs and whales you mean in evolution chain...3?
[Edit by Melissa Gordon]
Dogs and whales have descended from the same common ancestor. "The dolphins (and whales) belong to the cetacea (a phylogenic classification) and dogs belong to the carnivora. Both of these have evolved from a group called the mesonychidae." Reposted from a post by derrick kolling, Grad student, biophysics, university of Illinois urbana champaign.
To clarify, they are two different sets of species that are the great-grandchildren of a creature that had BOTH dog and whale characteristics. They just took different evolutionary paths to become the modern creatures we see today. So yes, they are distant cousins, but one did not descend from the other.
Dis advantages of whale hunting?
Like all animals, they have a vital role to maintain not only the oceans ecosystem but as well for humans. If the whales die then there would be too much krill in the ocean which could effect biodiversity of the oceans. As well whale poo helps underwater plants to photosynthesis CO2 into Oxygen. If the whales die then the oceans will die and if the oceans die then we will die as we cannot live with a dead ocean.
As well there are moral and ethical reasons for not to kill whales.
How many hearts do a whale have?
You may be confusing "heart" with "stomach." No mammal has more than one heart. Several animals have more than one stomach, or multi-chambered stomachs. These are called ruminants. a Ruminants are mammals in the order Artiodactyla. They predigest their food in the first stomach, regurgitate it, re-chew it (it is called cud now) and re-swallow it.
