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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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Are gorillas largest arboreal animal?
Yes, Gorillas are the largest living primate and ape. If you are looking for the largest monkey that would be the Baboon.
Where do big blue whales come from?
Blue Whales can be found in almost every sea and ocean in the world. They were the most widely spread whale species until Man started hunting them down. They were once in numbers of around 200,000 or more and now there are only 20,000 or so animals left in the wild.
They can be found in areas that are abundant in "Krill" their favorite prey species.
They don't live in family groups. They are solitary animals. They are known to be along one or two individuals at most and that too only for short periods of time.
What do you call the tail fin on a fish?
The tail fin acts as a rudder on a ship would.
Turning the fish in whichever direction it wants to go in.
What did the oldest ancestor of modern whales look like?
I'd imagine, it looks a bit like a whale. LOL
Are Baleen whales and Blue whales the same?
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.
How many blue whale pods are left?
You mean how many blue whales are left? Between 10,000 and 25,000.
What is whale blubber used for?
Whale blubber is a traditionally important food for Inuit people.
Whale blubber is something everyone might be used to in daily life but often fail to recognize it. Whale blubber is pure fat that is used for almost all cosmetics, soaps, leather etc. It was also used as candle wax and fuel in lamps. Whale blubber is also used in diet due to its resources of vitamin D and carbohydrates.
What is the back fin of a whale called?
The tail fins are 'flukes'. Otherwise the fin on any marine animal is "... fin" where "..,." is the adjective denoting its position on the body.
Is a whale an endotherm or exotherm?
Yes. A dolphin is endothermic, able to maintain its own body temperature. It is a mammal, and mammals and birds are endothermic. The term 'endothermic' is the biological term for an animal that is warm-blooded.
How many different species of whales are endangered?
scientists say there are more than 4,000 so far discovered.
Adult humpbacks have no natural predators. Man has severely affected humpback whale populations by killing them for years. By the 19th century, many nations (USA in particular), were hunting the animal heavily in the Atlantic Ocean, and to a lesser extent in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This widespread hunting sharply reduced whale populations.
It is estimated that during the 20th century, at least 200,000 humpbacks were taken, reducing the global population by over 90%, with North Atlantic populations estimated to have dropped to as low as 700 individuals. To prevent extinction, the International Whaling Commission banned commercial humpback whaling in 1966. By that time the population had been reduced to around 5,000. That ban is still in force
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Why don't the blue whale have teeth?
Blue Whales and Humpback Whales, (and a few other less known species) don't have teeth because they don't "chew" anything. They are "filter feeders". Whales, the largest creatures on earth, subsist on a diet of one of the smallest creatures in the ocean, Krill.
Krill, are small shrimp-like invertebrates, are found in all oceans of the world. They gather in "Swarms" that can have a biomass of several thousand tons. Whales feed on these swarms by opening their huge mouths, swimming into the swarm, scooping up huge mouth-fulls of Krill and water. Then the the water is pushed out through the baleen, (an upper jaw bone that has filter combs) and the the Krill remain as food source for the whale
How long was Jonah in the belly of the fish?
3 days and nights. Do note however that the use of days and nights in that manner is Hebraically idiomatic. 3 days and nights does not have to mean 72 hours, and can be any part of 3 days and nights.
Seals dive for fish underwater, some might sleep underwater. But 6 types of seals live in antarctica!
Seals breath air but do spend a lot of time underwater holding their breath. Sometime seals prefer to breath the air trapped under the ice then come to the surface.
They would live mostly in the cold area because they have blubber fur.
Do whales live at the bottom of the ocean?
many dolphin species are marine, but not all of them. for instance, dolphins live in the amazon, and there's also the possibly extinct yangtse river dolphin. aquatic mammals are very versatile, and just about anywhere they can survive, you'll find them.
What do whales cattle and elephants have in common?
They are all mammals and their babies are called calfs.
When is the whale going to be extinct?
Blue Whale populations have declined significantly due to extensive and uncontrolled hunting. Blue whale hunting was banned in 1966 by the International Whaling Commission. But, by 1970 330,000 blue whales had been caught & killed in the Antarctic, 33,000 in the rest of the Southern Hemisphere, 8,200 in the North Pacific, and 7,000 in the North Atlantic. The largest original population, in the Antarctic, had been reduced to 0.15% its original count.
Now that the hunting of these giant animals is banned, their numbers has started to increase and I don't think they will go extinct.
Why do the Japanese continue to hunt whales?
The Japanese have been whaling since as early as the 12 century, it is supposed. But, they have continued since the commercial bans in 1986 and they continue to whale for scientific purposes.
The meat from these scientific expeditions is then sold in stores, and this is not breaching the laws laid down by the IWC. (International Whaling Cooperation). The Japanese maintain this is a necessary study and will keep down whale populations (otherwise known as culling).
However it is heavily debated as to whether their true intentions lie in scientific research, or in the commercial sale of whale meat and products that are considered a true delicacy in their country.
