On Sunday, January 26, 2014, a lucky group of whale watchers got to witness gray whales mating just off the backside of Catalina Island. This exciting encounter included a great flash of a gray whale’s penis.
Today I found out “Killer Whales”, or Orcas, are actually dolphins. In fact, they are the largest member of the dolphin family, Delphinidae. Now strictly speaking, whales are marine s of the order of Cetacea and occasionally Cetacea is used to refer to not just whales, but also porpoises
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Eubalena Australis Some Weighty Matters. The Southern Right Whale is a truly gargantuan creature of the seas. Frequently female Southern Right Whales weigh in at 85 tonnes when mature.
Unfortunately there is no clear answer to this question in terms of the entire species as some species are harder to research and gather data from than others, but researchers have been able to give us a pretty good idea of how long some species of whales …
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Factors affecting a whales weight and size. When it comes to a whales overall weight there are a number of factors that help determine how much a whale will weigh.
The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale.One of the larger rorqual species, adults range in length from 12–16 m (39–52 ft) and weigh about 36,000 kg (79,000 lb). The humpback has a distinctive body shape, with long pectoral fins and a knobbly head. It is known for breaching and other distinctive surface behaviors, …
The blue whale has a long tapering body that appears stretched in comparison with the stockier build of other whales. The head is flat, U-shaped and has a prominent ridge running from the blowhole to the top of the upper lip. The front part of the mouth is thick with baleen plates; around 300 plates, each around one metre (3.3 feet) long, hang …