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Definition of baleen whale in English: baleen whalenoun A whale that has plates of whalebone in the mouth for straining plankton from the water. Baleen whales include the rorqual, humpback, right whale, and grey whale. Suborder Mysticeti, order Cetacea: three families and ten species Also called whalebone whale Example sentencesExamples - Norway argues that minke whales, the largest of the baleen whales at up to nine metres, are plentiful off its coast and can sustain a controlled hunt.
- But in Antarctic waters, E supurba so abounds that the baleen whales feed on it almost exclusively.
- Humpbacks, like other baleen whales, eat large amounts of small prey.
- Unlike the baseball-sized throat of baleen whales, this toothed whale's throat is large enough to swallow small seals whole.
- Minkes are baleen whales that grow up to seven metres and are known to spend time around South African shores.
- Similar findings have been reported for several baleen whale species (family Balaenopteridae).
- Toothed whales do not have a sense of smell, but baleen whales do have some olfactory nerves.
- To say that baleen whales feed by passively filtering krill is almost to insult the mammals’ truly sophisticated behavior.
- For nearly 100 years a pod of around 30 killer whales systematically partnered their human counterparts in hunting the baleen whales that migrated along the East Coast of Australia.
- Right whales are large baleen whales, meaning that instead of teeth they have bonelike plates, which they use to strain food from large gulps of water.
- Only one meat sample from a baleen whale exceeded the allowable mercury concentration, the researchers report in the June 15 Environmental Science and Technology.
- The previously unknown species lived about 25 million years ago and was an early ancestor of modern baleen whales, which feed by filtering plankton from seawater.
- Their cavernous mouths are used to gather up small fish and plankton in the same manner as baleen whales, hence the name.
- Killer whales in other parts of the world also use shallow water to trap and even beach baleen whales, just as the killer whales seem to have used Twofold Bay.
- The lower jaw of this form may have been edentulous and supported a gular sac, like that of a giant pelican or baleen whale.
- Its calls do not match those of any known species, although they are clearly those of a baleen whale, a group that includes blue, fin and humpback whales.
- Its snouty head, patchy grey body and small pedal fins make the dwarf look more like a large dolphin than a baleen whale.
- Bowheads, also known as Greenland right whales, are baleen whales, meaning that instead of teeth they have bonelike plates that they use to strain food from gulps of water.
- They are the most selective feeders of the baleen whales, consuming only certain species of krill and not others.
- No sauropod ever equalled in size the greatest of the baleen whales.
Definition of baleen whale in US English: baleen whalenoun A whale that has plates of whalebone in the mouth for straining plankton from the water. Baleen whales include the rorquals, humpback, right whales, and gray whale. Suborder Mysticeti, order Cetacea: three families and ten species Also called whalebone whale Example sentencesExamples - Bowheads, also known as Greenland right whales, are baleen whales, meaning that instead of teeth they have bonelike plates that they use to strain food from gulps of water.
- Their cavernous mouths are used to gather up small fish and plankton in the same manner as baleen whales, hence the name.
- Only one meat sample from a baleen whale exceeded the allowable mercury concentration, the researchers report in the June 15 Environmental Science and Technology.
- But in Antarctic waters, E supurba so abounds that the baleen whales feed on it almost exclusively.
- Right whales are large baleen whales, meaning that instead of teeth they have bonelike plates, which they use to strain food from large gulps of water.
- Unlike the baseball-sized throat of baleen whales, this toothed whale's throat is large enough to swallow small seals whole.
- Its calls do not match those of any known species, although they are clearly those of a baleen whale, a group that includes blue, fin and humpback whales.
- The previously unknown species lived about 25 million years ago and was an early ancestor of modern baleen whales, which feed by filtering plankton from seawater.
- Minkes are baleen whales that grow up to seven metres and are known to spend time around South African shores.
- Similar findings have been reported for several baleen whale species (family Balaenopteridae).
- Toothed whales do not have a sense of smell, but baleen whales do have some olfactory nerves.
- They are the most selective feeders of the baleen whales, consuming only certain species of krill and not others.
- Humpbacks, like other baleen whales, eat large amounts of small prey.
- The lower jaw of this form may have been edentulous and supported a gular sac, like that of a giant pelican or baleen whale.
- For nearly 100 years a pod of around 30 killer whales systematically partnered their human counterparts in hunting the baleen whales that migrated along the East Coast of Australia.
- Norway argues that minke whales, the largest of the baleen whales at up to nine metres, are plentiful off its coast and can sustain a controlled hunt.
- No sauropod ever equalled in size the greatest of the baleen whales.
- To say that baleen whales feed by passively filtering krill is almost to insult the mammals’ truly sophisticated behavior.
- Its snouty head, patchy grey body and small pedal fins make the dwarf look more like a large dolphin than a baleen whale.
- Killer whales in other parts of the world also use shallow water to trap and even beach baleen whales, just as the killer whales seem to have used Twofold Bay.
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