Anything and everything you need/want to know about whales! :) And tons of cute pictures of them too <3
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Name: Monodon monoceros, or more commonly known as the Narwhal
Description: Mottled, black and white patterned pigmentation; only male narwhals have a tusk
Habitat: Mainly found in the Atlantic and Russian areas of the Arctic Ocean
Feeding: Greenland halibut, polar and Arctic cod, shrimp, and Gonatus squid
Name: Balaena mysticetus, commonly known as the Bowhead Whale
Description: Robust, dark colored body with no dorsal fin and a strongly bowed lower jaw and a narrow upper jaw.
Habitat: Spends its entire life in and around Arctic waters.
Feeding: Because of its baleen plates, it specializes in much smaller prey
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Name: Balaenoptera Borealis, or Sei Whale (pronounced “say”)
Habitat: Live in all oceans, although rarely in polar or tropical waters. In the North Atlantic, its range extends from southern Europe or northwestern Africa to Norway, and from the southern United States to Greenland. The southernmost confirmed records are strandings along the norther Gulf of Mexico and in the Greater Antilles.
Description: The whale’s body is typically a dark grey with irregular light grey to white markings on the ventral surface, or towards the front of the lower body. The whale has a series of 32-60 pleats or grooves along the bottom of the body that allow the throat area to expand greatly during feeding. The rostrum is pointed and the pectoral fins are relatively short. Feeding: Uses its baleen plates to obtain its food by opening its mouth, engulfing large amounts of water containing the food, then straining the water out through the baleen, trapping any food items inside its mouth. The see whale feeds near the surface of the ocean, swimming on its side through swarms of prey to obtain its average of about 900 kilograms (2,000 lb.) of food each say. For an animal of its size, for the most part its preferred foods lie unusually relatively low in the food chain, including zooplankton and small fish.
Name: Orcinus orca, commonly known as an Orca, or a Killer Whale
Description: Distinctively bear a black back, white chest and sides, and a white patch above and behind the eye
Habitat: They are found in all oceans, and most seas. The highest densities of Killer Whales are said to be in the Northeast Atlantic around the Norwegian coast, the Gulf of Alaska and in the Southern Ocean off much of the coast of Antarctica
Feeding: Some populations in the Norwegian and Greenland sea specialize in herring and follow that fish’s autumnal migration to the Norwegian coast. Other populations prey on seals. Salmon account for 96% of northeast Pacific residents’ diet. 65% of them are large, fatty Chinook.
