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The whale then pushes the water out, and animals such as krill are filtered by the baleen and remain as a food source for the whale. Baleen is similar to bristles and consists of keratin, the same substance found in human fingernails, skin and hair. Baleen is a skin derivative. Some whales, such as the bowhead whale, have
A blue whale with its bow wave, showing the blowhole. The blue whale is a slender-bodied cetacean with a broad U-shaped head; thin, elongated flippers; a small 33 centimeters (13 in) sickle-shaped dorsal fin located close to the tail, and a large tail stock at the root of the wide and thin flukes.
The femur is the longest bone in humans. The longest bone in the human body is the femur. [23] The largest artery is the aorta [24] and the largest vein is the inferior vena cava. [25] The largest internal organ (by mass) is the liver, with an average of 1.6 kilograms (3.5 pounds). [26]
Watch a blue whale blow water in the video below: The blue whale possesses a small dorsal fin near the rear of its body and pectoral flippers (up to 20 feet long) to aid its maneuvering.
The skim-feeders are right whales, gray whales, pygmy right whales, and sei whales (which also lunge feed). To feed, skim-feeders swim with an open mouth, filling it with water and prey. Prey must occur in sufficient numbers to trigger the whale's interest, be within a certain size range so that the baleen plates can filter it, and be slow ...
In 1827, a blue whale beached itself off the coast of Ostend. Whales were used as attractions in museums and traveling exhibitions. [citation needed] Depiction of baleen whaling, 1840 Stranded sperm whale engraving, 1598. Whalers from the 17th to 19th centuries depicted whales in drawings and recounted tales of their occupation.
KOBO (King of the Blue Ocean) is the skeleton of a 66-foot-long (20 m) juvenile blue whale on display at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The whale was accidentally struck and killed by a tanker and brought ashore in Rhode Island in March 1998. [ 1 ]
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