Before diving, whales fill their lungs with air and close their blow holes, then they collapse their lungs. The sperm whale can dive to depths of over 7,000 feet and can stay underwater for close to two hours. Scientists think whales use breaching to communicate with others in their pod because the sound or the vibrations that they make when they crash into the water can travel for miles under the water! Many species of whales leap out of the water and land on their sides or backs. Whales can often be identified by their spouts! When a whale comes up for air, it opens its blowhole and blows out old moist air in a spout of air and water. Whales have to come up to the surface of the water to breathe. It can grow to be more than 100 feet long! Dolphins and porpoises are also toothed whales. Sperm whales, narwhals and beluga whales are toothed whales. The odontocetous, or toothed whales, have one blow hole and teeth that can cut up food. The humpback takes great swallows of water and then filters out the food. The right whale skims the water with its mouth open to draw in water and food. It skims the ocean floor and stirs up mud and silt, draws it in and then filters out its food. Most baleen whales feed near the water's surface, but the gray whale is a bottom feeder. Humpback whales, right whales, blue whales and gray whales are all mysticetous or baleen whales. The baleen filters out krill and other plankton that the whale scrapes up with its tongue. The whale draws water into its mouth and then pushes it out through the baleen with its tongue. The plates have bristles on them, like a brush. The mysticeti have baleen instead of teeth and they have two blow holes.īaleen is as fringe of horny, blade-shaped plates that hang down from the whales upper jaw. The Mysticeti, or baleen whales and the Odontoceti, or toothed whales.
They can be found in all the world's oceans! They breathe air through a blow hole at the top of their heads. They bear live young and feed them milk and they have lungs.
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