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2. Cetomimiformes - Wikipedia

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   Named after their whale-shaped body (from the Greek ketos meaning "whale" or "sea monster", mimos meaning "imitative" and the Latin forma meaning "form"), the Cetomimiformes have extremely large mouths and highly distensible stomachs.

3. List of cetaceans - Wikipedia

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   The family Balaenidae, the right whales, contains two genera and four species. All right whales have no ventral grooves; a distinctive head shape with a strongly arched, narrow rostrum, bowed lower jaw; lower lips that enfold the sides and front of the rostrum; and long, narrow, elastic baleen plates (up to nine times longer than wide) with fine baleen fringes.

4. Cetology of Moby-Dick - Wikipedia

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   Right whale (several species of the genus Eubalaena of the family Balaenidae), also known simply as the Whale, the Greenland Whale, the Black Whale, the Great Whale. Melville claims this whale was the first to be regularly hunted by human beings and is famously known for providing baleen, which was also known as "whalebone" at the time.

5. Melon (cetacean) - Wikipedia

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   The melon is structurally part of the nasal apparatus and comprises most of the mass tissue between the blowhole and the tip of the snout. The function of the melon is not completely understood, but scientists believe it is a bioacoustic component, providing a means of focusing sounds used in echolocation and creating a similarity between characteristics of its tissue and the surrounding water ...

6. List of Whaling Walls - Wikipedia

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   The Windy Whales: Chicago, Illinois: September 22, 1997: New construction has covered all but a sliver of wall. Signature still visible but not much else. 74: Orcas Passage: Indianapolis, Indiana: September 29, 1997 75: Song of the Whales: Cleveland, Ohio: October 6, 1997. Restoration completed and wall rededicated October 4, 2019 [14] 76 ...

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9. Baleen whale - Wikipedia

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   Baleen whales can have streamlined or large bodies, depending on the feeding behavior, and two limbs that are modified into flippers. The fin whale is the fastest baleen whale, recorded swimming at 10 m/s (36 km/h; 22 mph). Baleen whales use their baleen plates to filter out food from the water by either lunge-feeding or skim-feeding