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Examples of baleen
baleen
Omura's whales have 180-210 baleen plates on each side and 80-90 ventral pleats.
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Nicol's team analysed 27 samples of faeces from four species of baleen whales.
From the newscientist.com
The baleen whales, which sieve krill from the ocean and have no teeth, do not.
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Humpbacks have 270 to 400 darkly coloured baleen plates on each side of the mouth.
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Right whales have between 200 and 300 baleen plates on each side of the mouth.
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Except for the Sperm Whale, most toothed whales are smaller than the baleen whales.
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There are nine species of baleen whale present, including the Humpback Whale.
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Mr Hocking said whales used their baleen to sieve krill from large volumes of water.
From the canberratimes.com.au
Baleen had a monkey theme and was decorated with all sorts of simian motifs.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- Whalebone: a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets
- Baleen or whalebone is a filtering structure in the mouth of most whales, which they use to feed by sieving small animals from large mouthfuls of seawater. ...
- The plates in the mouth of the baleen whale, Mystacoceti, which it uses to trap its food; formerly used in corsetry; a baleen whale
- Long, flat plates made of fingernail-like material called keratin that hang from a baleen whale's mouth in place of teeth.
- Plates of keratin (the same material that makes up fingernails) found on the upper jaws of gray whales; used for filter-feeding and trapping amphipods and other tiny foods
- A horny material consisting of numerous plates with fringed edges that grows down from th eupper jaw of plankton-feeding whales. Used to filter (strain) the plankton food from water.*
- [bay-leen]- baleen, historically sometimes referred to as whalebone, is a hard, horny, springy substance that grows in long plates in the mouths of toothless whales. Whales use it to filter out small food organisms and plankton from the ocean waters. ...
- The part of a whale's mouth that acts as teeth. It filters out the water leaving behind the food.
- Whalebone. The term is more commonly used to refer to the bony substance within the mouth of the whale which is used to strain food. it is widely used by Eskimos for making tools and ornaments.
