Narwhal
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NARWHAL, the Scandinavian name of a cetacean (Monodon inonoceros), characterized by the presence in the male of a long horn-like tusk.
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Adult Narwhals are brown or dark gray above with whitish underside. The body has mottled pattern of spots. The head is small with blunt snout. The flippers are short and rounded and there is no dorsal fin.
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Narwhal
Narwhals are social whales that live in frigid Arctic waters.
Family Narwhal: Male narwhals weigh up to 1,450 kilograms, the female around 900 kilograms. Most of the body is pale with brown speckles in color, though the neck, head and edges of the flippers and fluke are nearly black.
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(när´wl), a small arctic whale, Monodon monoceros. The males of this species, and an occasional female, bear a single, tightly spiraled tusk that measures up to 9 ft (2.7 m) in length.
Narwhals have 2 teeth located in the upper jaw; in males, the left tooth will grow to form a long straight tusk, hence the nickname "unicorn of the sea." The length of the tusk is between 1/3-1/2 as long as the length of the body.
Narwhals are related to bottlenose dolphins, belugas, harbor porpoises, and orcas. Like some other porpoises, they travel in groups and feed on fish, shrimp, squid, and other aquatic fare.
Narwhal
Monodon monoceros
The narwhal's washed up horn found on beaches were thought to have given rise to the myth of unicorns.
Subspecies
None.
Narwhals are perhaps best known for their tusks-they are the only whales that have them. The tusk is an extremely elongated, hollow tooth, which always spirals counter-clockwise from the left side of the skull. It can measure 2.5-2.7 m long (8-9 ft.).
Narwhals live in groups of two to ten individuals which may congregate with other groups to form herds of hundreds of individuals (3).
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The narwhal, Monodon monoceros, and the beluga are the only species in the Monodontidae ...
The Narwhal means "corpse whale" in Old Norse.
Description
Distinguishing Features - Length: up to 4.9 m; weight: up to 1600 kg.
The narwhal is found around Baffin Island and the Arctic ice edge. It can be seen eastwards from the Canadian Arctic through much of Russia. It is rare in Siberia and Alaska.
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Order: Cetacea
Family: Monodontidae
Monodon monocerus - female, upper; males fighting, lower
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Narwhal (Monodon monoceros)
Population: Over 80,000 worldwide. Status: Near-Threatened Species.
Trends: Decreasing due to hunting, climate change and industrial activities.
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The narwhal is an Arctic whale; the male has one huge tooth.
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The Narwhal has the longest tooth which measures up to 7 - 10 feet (2 - 3 metres) long.
Whale with the longest baleen ...
and porpoises are examples of odontocetes, as are belugas, narwhals, killer whales, sperm whales, and beaked whales. Baleen whales lack teeth completely as adults (although teeth are present in fetal baleen whales).
Belugas have a very short, broad snout, while narwhales have a square head and appear to lack a snout altogether. The forehead in both species is high and globose.
Toothed whales include dolphins, porpoises, belugas, narwhals, sperm whales, river dolphins, and beaked whales. Baleen whales are represented by 11 species, including the right whale, gray whale, blue whale, and humpback whale.
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CETACEA: Monodontidae (Belugas and Narwhals)
Common Name Scientific Name Distribution
Beluga
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Polar bears also prey upon harp seals, as well as young walruses and beluga whales, narwhal, fish, and the remains of stranded whales and adult walrus.
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Beluga (Occasionally seen, primarily further north) and Narwhal (further north)
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They are also known to prey on young walruses and occasionally even capture narwhals and belugas. In summer, if they are along the coast, they may eat some grass, kelp, or berries, and scavenge on the carcasses of terrestrial or marine mammals.
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Toothed whales belong to a group of mammals known as the cetaceans. There are 71 species of toothed whales divided into about 6 subgroups: oceanic dolphins, river dolphins, porpoises, beluga and narwhal, beaked whales and sperm whales.
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5 metres long when fully grown, to the mammoth 18 metre male sperm whale. Some other examples are the two species of pilot whale, beluga whale, narwhal, finless porpoise, and the rather large family of beaked whales.
Sperm whales, narwhals and beluga whales are toothed whales. Dolphins and porpoises are also toothed whales. The largest whale is the blue whale. It can grow to be more than 100 feet long! Thar She Blows! ...
 See also: Whale, Beluga, Sperm Whale, Dolphin, Squid
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