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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.
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
Articles relating to baleen whales (parvorder Mysticeti, whalebone whales), marine mammals in the infraorder Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises), which use keratinaceous baleen plates (or "whalebone") in their mouths to sieve planktonic creatures from the water.
Whales are a part of the cetacean family, which is divided into two groups: baleen whales (which don't have teeth) and toothed whales. These animals are found in every ocean, but this doesn't mean ...
Whaling is the practice of hunting whales, mainly baleen and sperm whales. This activity has gone on since the Stone Age. [98] In the Middle Ages, reasons for whaling included their meat, oil usable as fuel and the jawbone, which was used in house construction. At the end of the Middle Ages, early whaling fleets aimed at baleen whales, such as ...
Sei whale Balaenoptera borealis [5] Blue whale (ᐊᕐᕕᖅ ᓂᐊᖁᕐᓗᖕᓂᖅᓴᖅ, ᐃᐸᒃ, arviq niaqurlungniqsaq, ipak) Balaenoptera musculus [3] [6] Common minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata [7] Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae [8] Delphinidae [1] Killer whale (ᐋᕐᓗ, ᐊᕐᓗᒃ, ᐋᕐᓗᒃ, aarlu, arluk, aarluk ...
The animals utilise these by ram feeding, swimming at or near the surface with their mouth open for minutes at a time, and straining food from the water, which they then scrape off the baleen with their tongues [11] – a feeding method that contrasts with those of the rorquals and the gray whale. [12]
The blue whale is a type of baleen whale that, depending on the time of year, is found in oceans worldwide. Its scientific name is Balaenoptera musculus . Translated, Balaenoptera means “winged ...