WHALES

pod

a group of whales

blubber

a thick layer of fat that helps keep whales warm.

blowhole

a whales nostril

whales

are not fish. social, aquatic mammals that live in the ocean. they breathe air, give birth to young, nurse their babies(calves) and are warm blooded

baleen whales

have 2 nostrils, or blow holes, and have moustache like baleen plates in their mouths that they use to strain food from seawater.

toothed whales

have one nostril, or blowhole, and teeth to catch fish and other sea animals. includes porpoises and dolphins.

echolocation

how whales communicate and find food.

bull

male whale

cetaceans

scientific name of whales

krill

shrimplike animals that get eaten by baleen whales with their bristle like hair.

blue whale

the largest animal that has ever lived. There are ten living species of baleen whales.

blow or spout

the spray from a whales lungs

plankton

tiny sea creatures that baleen whales eat.

migrate

to move from one place to another. some whale migrate.

flukes

two flat lobes that make up a whale's tale

how whales sleep

whales float on the surface of the water and drift. This is called logging.

breaching

when whales jump out of the water

lobtailing

when whales lift their flukes above the surface and splash down hard.

spyhopping

when whales lift their heads vertically out of the water.

lungs and blowholes

What whales use to breathe.

calf

baby whale

types of whales

baleen and toothed

types of toothed whales

dolphins, orcas, sperms, porpoises

cow

female whale