Whale Shark
Rhincodon typus
The whale shark is both the biggest shark and the biggest fish. Like all sharks, it has a skeleton made of cartilage and very rough skin. The skin of the whale shark can be 4 inches thick.
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What is a Whale?
LIVING IN THE OCEAN
Whales are large, intelligent, aquatic mammals. They breathe air through blowhole(s) into lungs (unlike fish who breathe using gills).
Whale Shark
Among the often-fearsome sharks, the whale shark is comparatively benign.
Whale (Killer)
Killer Whale: Orcinus orca
Distribution: in every ocean as far as the ice packs of the Arctic and Antarctic
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Whales
Whales are mammals like us, not fish.
They swim to warm seas to have their babies.
Whales belong to the order Cetacea which has 79 species, including Dolphins, Porpoises and Killer Whales (orcas).
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Whale Shark Facts
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Fin Whale Survives Boat Propeller
This Fin Whale clearly shows healed scars from boat propellers. This was probably accidental when the whale surfaced under the boat. Fortunately this guy survived.
Whales have one or two nostril openings, called blowholes, located far back on the top of the head; the nostril valves close and the lungs compress when the whale dives.
Whale Shark
The Whale Shark is not a whale at all--it is a fish! Actually, it is the largest known fish and the largest known shark in the world. It can grow to be 45 feet long and weighs as much as 15 tons.
Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus (Smith, 1828), are the biggest sharks and the biggest fishes in the ocean. They are NOT whales nor are they dangerous to humans (like nearly all sharks).
Whale sharks are the largest fish in the world. Adults can be as long as 18 meters and weigh up to 20 tons. The mouth of a whale shark is positioned at the end of its snout.
Whale Shark Range
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Type: Fish Diet: Carnivore Size: 18 to 32.8 ft (5.5 to 10 m) Weight: Average, 20.6 tons (18.7 tonnes) Group name: School Protection status: Threatened Did you know?
Whale shark, Rhincodon typus
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Where are they found? Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean ...
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The whale shark is dark gray or greenish gray from its back to the middle of its sides. Its belly is off-white.
White or light yellow spots and lines are also distinguishing features of the whale shark.
The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a distinctively-marked member of the subclass Elasmobranchii of the class Chondrichthyes. It is the largest shark and also the largest living fish.
Many whales, especially baleen whales, tend to migrate long distances from their cold-water feeding grounds to warm-water breeding grounds each year. They travel alone or in groups, or pods, on their annual migrations.
Whalers targeted the great whales.
Most species of baleen whales (suborder Mysticeti) have been severely depleted. Their current status is due largely to commercial whaling, which took place during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Whale shark
The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is a gentle and slow filter feeding shark that is the largest living fish species.
Whale Shark
The sole living member of its family, the whale shark is the world's largest living fish. Its massive, fusiform body reaches lengths in excess of 46' (14m).
Whale:
Record Keeper
When Native Americans speak of Whale as record keepers they are referring to the kind of knowledge which the psychoanalyst Carl Jung called the collective unconscious.
Whales, dolphins, and porpoises
There are over 80 species of cetaceans, a group made up of whales, dolphins and porpoises.
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Whale shark feeding
Planet Earth
The world's largest fish survives on the smallest organism... or does it?
SEI WHALE FACTS
Description
Sei whales are dark gray with irregular white markings across the back. The body is relatively slender with short pectoral fins and sickle shaped dorsal fin. The snout is pointed.
Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
Texas Status Endangered U.S. Status Endangered, Listed 6/02/1970
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Refer to the online version of The Mammals of Texas for additional details on the Blue Whale.
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Scientific name: Balaenoptera musculus
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
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Minke Whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)
There are two species of Minke Whale and this is also known as the Northern Minke Whale since it is found from the pole to the equator in the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Blue Whale Wildlife Viewing
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How do Whales Breathe?
Whales have lungs they use to get the oxygen they need by breathing air (like humans). But instead of breathing through their mouth, they breathe through their nostrils, called blowholes, located on top of their heads.
Whales have been hunted by humans for hundreds or years. In 1854 hunts began taking gray whales of the lower coast of California. The hunt didn't boom until 1858, at which time began a rapid decline of gray whales in North America.
WHALE & MAN
The sperm whale has been ruthlessly hunted by man for centuries, and continues to be persecuted.
Whales are mammals. They bear live young and feed them milk and they have lungs. They breathe air through a blow hole at the top of their heads. Whales often travel in groups or pods. They can be found in all the world's oceans! Open Wide ...
Whale sharks are of limited value to fishermen, although they are harpooned in countries such as Pakistan, India, China, and Senegal. Whale sharks are eaten by these people or used to treat boat hulls in Pakistan.
WHALES & DOLPHINS
PLANT SPECIES
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Whales mate during their winter migration to warm waters and the gestation period is eleven to twelve months after. The baby calf is usually two tons in weight and measures up to thirteen feet in length.
Fin Whale
: Family Balaenopteridae : Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus)
Description.
Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
The Fin Whale.
The Fin Whale is found in oceans all over the world, from the tropics to the polar areas. They are known as a pelagic species, often occuring in shallow waters close to the shore.
The whale is the loudest animal in the world. Blue whale's can be as loud as a jet plane, they make a long low sound and slap there tails on the water to communicate.
Blue whales are found throughout the world's oceans. These gentle giants have grayish-blue skin with light spots.
Blue whales feed almost exclusively on shrimplike crustaceans known as "krill". A blue whale may consume up to 5.5 - 6.4 metric tons (6 - 7 tons) of food per day during the summer feeding season.
Sperm whales are found in mixed groups of 20 to 40 individuals including adult females, calves and juveniles. After weaned from their mother, juveniles leave their group to form juvenile schools.
Right whales lack a dorsal fin; therefore, they have a large, flat back. They are dark gray or black and have "bumps" called callosities, on their head.
Early whalers called the gray whale the devilfish because females strongly defended their young against all enemies, including orcas, sharks, and humans.
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These whales are mainly known from stranded dead animals. They are rarely seen at sea due to their deep-ocean distribution, elusive behaviour, and possible low numbers, ...
Beluga Whales are white in colour and are best known for their friendly-looking smile (which is actually the natural shape of their mouth). Baby beluga calves are born a grayish brown colour and turn white as they reach about 5 years of age.
Humpback whales migrate seasonally and feed on krill and small schooling fishes. Humpbacks catch the small fish be herding them into "bubble nets," which the whales create by swimming in a circle under the water's surface and releasing air bubbles.
SPERM -Whale, or Cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus), the largest representative of the toothed whales, its length and bulk being about equal to, or somewhat exceeding those of the Arctic right-whale, from which, however, ...
The Killer Whale or "Orca" is also known as the "Blackfish", "Grampus", and because large males display a tall dorsal fin, the "Sword Fish".
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Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)
Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus)
Ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
Orca (Orcinus orca)
Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus)
Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) ...
The Northern right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is the rarest of all large whale species, as well as one of the rarest of all marine mammals. What is the right whales population? It currently stands at between 300 and 350 individuals.
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The even-toed ungulates are the most successful group of large herbivores on earth today, having outpaced the formerly widespread perissodactyls in the Oligocene.
Countering the assumption that hippos and pigs are cousins-which was based largely on similarities between their molars-molecular studies in recent years indicated that hippos have more in common with cetaceans (whales, porpoises, and dolphins).
Shoebills, also known as Whaleheads
The Shoebill, Balaeniceps rex, also known as Whalehead, is a very large stork-like bird.
Whales and Dolphins
The Cetacea are one of the most distinctive and highly specialized orders of mammals.
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Sei Whale
Order: Cetacea
Family: Balaenopteridae
Balaenoptera borealis - insets: view of head from top, spray pattern
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Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
The fin whale is classified as a member of the order Cetacea (Whales) and is a member of the family Balaenopteridae. It grows up to eighty feet long.
 See also: Dolphin, Shark, Squid, Right Whale, Diver
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