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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.
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 ...
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.
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).
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 ...
Omura’s whales are the most recently identified species of whales, experts from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation said. The creatures were first recognized in 2003 from dead corpses, and they ...
Per the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, North Atlantic right whales are one of the three species of large baleen whales. These whales can weigh up to 140,000 pounds and get up ...