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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 the name of the whale product used in the perfume industry?
Ambergris is the name of a whale excretion that is produced by the irritation caused by squid's beaks inside the stomach of the sperm whale. This excretion takes a rocklike form and is regarded as a very valuable commodity, since it's used for medicinal purposes, in the perfume industry as fixative and even as aphrodisiac. It's so rare and expensive, there are people who dedicate part of their life to search for this weird treasure along the beach lines.
Does captain kirk like whales?
Captain Kirk from Star Trek likes whales because one of the movies he is in involves him saving them from extinction. This was the major plot in the movie which would potentially spell the end of Earth.
Is a whale classified as a fish or mammal?
Plankton are an aquatic organism. There are three classifications of plankton and it is based upon their phylogeny. There are the phytoplankton which are photosynthetic organisms and microscopic algae; there are zooplankton which are invertebrate animals; and there are ichthyoplankton which consist of the larval fish components.
some whales eat salmon and some don't. well some don't eat salmon because some whales don't like it the ones who do eat salmon do like it.
Harpoons vary in length. Some can be from 2 to 3 feet, while others can be up to 5 to 8, even 10 feet in length.
What facts are whales and sharks alike?
they are alike in different ways they both live in the ocean and they are both hunters
What is a male cow's offspring called?
There is no such thing as a male cow. A cow is a mature female bovine that had had a calf, and a bull is an intact male bovine. So the young offspring of a bull and cow is a calf.
Is there whale sperm in the ocean?
Yes. Whale sperm is 89% Salt, each time a whale ejaculates they produce around 500 gallons of sperm. This is what is harvested to make salt, salt IS whale sperm. Although at McDonald's, the salt used on their fries is dolphin sperm, a waste product. There is no other way to produce salt apart from ejaculation, salt rocks have been ejaculated on by animals over thousands of years, it is the only solution.
Can you show me some bullet points why we should hunt whales?
* most species of whales have not yet recovered from commercial whaling
making their numbers too low for hunting
* hunting whales will upset ecosystem and leaving an imbalance
* marine mammals have a high mercury content making them toxic for consumption
* killing and eating of whales is cruel and barbaric
* whalers often kill the calves (babies) so mothers will not leave making them an easy kill
There are too many arguments to list.
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What is the reason for whale hunting?
Countries don't hunt whales. Companies hunt whales and they do it for the same reasons they always do things, to make money.
For food, although in earlier times before the discovery of drilling for crude oil, their blubber was by far the main source of oil and tallow (a key ingredient in soap, wax, and many other things) for the entire world.
A blue whale is a mammal and needs to come to the surface and breath air. They do not have gills.
Can a whale swallow a puffle fish?
Just the opposite. Puffins eats fish. Adult puffins mostly eat small fish, such as sand eels, herring, hake and capelin. Puffin diets vary from colony to colony because of the variety of fish around the breeding islands. During winter puffins may also eat crustaceans, but their preferred food is fish. The young puffins are usually fed fish by their parents.
What is the largest whale and what is the smallest whale?
The world's largest dolphin is the Orca Whale which grows to be 20-26 feet long. The world's smallest dolphin is called the Hector's Dolphin which can grow up to only 152 centimeters or smaller.
What colour tongue do a whales have?
A blue whale is dark blue on it's upper half, with a white belly and underjaw.
How long is the biggest whale?
A whale is the size of six elephant ANSWER:The Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is considered the largest whale. It can reach an astounding 33.59 metres (110 ft 2.5 in) and weigh approx. 181 tonnes (200 short tons). It is still considered the largest mammal in the animal kingdom. A larger specimen has been sighted that was longer than the observation vessel, (125 feet) but was not actually measured.
What is a family of whales called?
cetacea
A group of whales is called a Pod
In older times, a group of dolphins was called a school.
Do whales live off the coast of Maine?
There are various dolphins that you can see living off the coast of Maine. For example, there is the white-sided dolphins.
Can a person survive after being swallowed by a whale?
its possible,
stay tight try to survive and wait until it comes up for air and you MIGHT have a chance
Living in a WhaleUnworthy human who wrote this perplexing question, I'm here to reveal what I know about the survival inside a whale. I'm glad to say, it's completely possible.
For some whales.
The sperm whale is rather big HUGE! It's been known to eat sharks and giant squid, so it's possible that approximately 1000 humans can be swallowed by this huge creature.
There is a story of a man named James Bartley who, in the 1800s, was presumed to have been swallowed by a sperm whale, with the only damage being bleached skin, partial(?) blindness, and being knocked into a coma.
It is recorded that killer whales, or as I prefer to call them, orcas, can reach lengths over 30 feet. That's pretty big for a dolphin.
That's right. Orcas are dolphins, not exactly whales. But that's off-topic. Moving on.
Orcas have been known to swallow whole seals, sharks, and chunks of other whales.
I'm unsure of whether or not baleen whals such as the humpback or the ever-large-and-in-charge blue whale CAN swallow humans alive. Baleen whales are filter-feeders, meaning although they consume large quantities of food, it mainly consists of very small creatures, such as plankton, krill, and small fish.
You don't need to worry about choking a whale. The esophagus is stretchy, but it isn't completely stretchy, just to warn you. Also, the lungs and esophagus are in no way connected. Well, except for through the circulatory system, but I doubt you want to go down THAT route...
The average every-day whale or dolphin has three stomach CHAMBERS. Not "stomachs", "stomach CHAMBERS". The first chamber, called the forestomach, is the only stomach chamber you'll end up living in. It's a mechanical stomach, sort of an "extension" of the esophagus. The whales and dolphins are able to use this stomach to store food for later. Then, when the time comes, they use the stomach to crush the food in a form of "chewing their food". Sometimes they barf up the food to lure in more food, a.k.a. sea gulls.
Annoying pests... Those bird-brained birds stealing all the food they can... I say they get what they deserve!!!!!
Ahem... Anyway, the second chamber, the main stomach, is where TRUE chemical digestion takes place. The opening is said to be miniscule, so in order to get to that stomach chamber, you'd have to be crushed in the first one. Not too pleasant...
The third, the pyloric stomach, neutralizes any stomach acid travelling with the food remains so that it makes a safe trip through the intestines.
That is all for now. I shall return for updates.
What is another example of commensalism besides the whale and barnacles?
Crabs and Shrimps often form commensalistic symbiotic relationships with anemones in tropical waters, again for the purposes of protection from predation. For instance the Anemone crab, Neopetrolisthes oshimai, which is a filter feeding Porcelain crab, lives and captures its food from within the tentacles of giant anemones.
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What is the whales real name in free willy 4?
its not keko. its keiko. KEIKO wrong keiko died in 2003 in december, Bindi worked with an animatronic whale. fake whale
