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  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. List of individual cetaceans - Wikipedia

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    Ecco from the video game series Ecco the Dolphin; Fungie; Flipper from the 1963 film of the same name and later film and television series in the same franchise; Hiapo; Hope, featured in the film Dolphin Tale 2; Mitzie, who portrayed Flipper [7] Moko; Opo; Peter, used in experiments in human-dolphin communication by John C. Lilly and Margaret ...

  5. Category:Baleen whales - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Balaenidae - Wikipedia

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    Balaenidae (/ b ə ˈ l ɛ n ɪ d eɪ,-d iː /) is a family of whales of the parvorder Mysticeti (baleen whales) that contains mostly fossil taxa and two living genera: the right whale (genus Eubalaena), and the closely related bowhead whale (genus Balaena). [3] [4]

  7. Cetacea - Wikipedia

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    Whaling is the practice of hunting whales, mainly baleen and sperm whales. This activity has gone on since the Stone Age. [89] 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 ...

  8. Scientists might have finally figured out how whales sing - AOL

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    Coen Elemans, from the University of Southern Denmark, led a team that studied the carcasses of three whales that had died after being stranded, representing three different baleen whale species ...

  9. Portal:Cetaceans - Wikipedia

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    There are approximately 89 living species split into two parvorders: Odontoceti or toothed whales (containing porpoises, dolphins, other predatory whales like the beluga and the sperm whale, and the poorly understood beaked whales) and the filter feeding Mysticeti or baleen whales (which includes species like the blue whale, the humpback whale ...