1. Spend entire lives at sea Stream-lined bodies

2. Breathe air through blowhole

3. Front flippers; tail = “fluke”

4. Blubber for insulation Slow reproductive rate; 1 calf / 2-3 years Beluga & Calf

5. “Moustached” – baleen plates hang from upper lip Flexible, fibrous plates of keratin to strain water

6. Baleen

7. Eat krill, small fish, crustaceans Krill

8. 2 Blowhole openings

9. Rorquals – grooves along throat/chest to expand Ex: humpback, finback

10. Humpbacks Feeding

11. Humpbacks Size: 40-50 ft

12. Body black, often w/barnacles (gooseneck barnacles) Flippers to 15 ft; white underneath; used to ID

13. Behaviors: Breaching

14. Feeding with Bubble Net Whales swim in circle blowing bubbles trapping fish inside “net”, then swim up center

15. Lunge Feeding Swim through school & engulf food & water

17. “Greyhounds of the Sea” – to 20mph Lifespan 90-100yrs 2 nd Largest animal on Earth – to 85 ft

18. Known for elaborate songs

19. Blue Whale Largest animal; 100 ft

20. Person standing between blue whale jaw bones

21. Blue Whale

22. Right Whale Carcasses float; slow “Upside-down smile” Most endangered Size: to 30-50 ft

24. Teeth to catch & hold prey; swallowed whole Eat fish, squid, seals

25. Single blowhole opening

26. Often travel in pods

27. Ex: SPERM WHALE Largest toothed whale (40-60ft); feed on Giant Squid; dive deep

29. Orca or Killer Whale Spyhopping

33. Dolphins: beak & conical teeth Porpoises: blunt head & flat teeth

34. Echolocation Sounds sent from sacs in head (melon) Received through jaw to inner ear (like SONAR) Used for navigation, socialization, predation