Just the Basics whales are an endangered species are the
biggest animals on Earth average weight is 23-30 tons are in the
category of Cetaceans are hunted for meat, fat, oil, leather,
tools, and many other materials have been part of our lives for
thousands of years no 2 tail flukes (either half/whole of a whale's
tail) are alike to tell apart two whales you would look at their
tail flukes they stay in groups most popular types of whales are
humpback, finback, and minke humpback whales have the longest
flippers of all whales they all love to do many types of jumps
offspring is born alive
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Parts of a whale the underside of a whale is called Ventral
Grooves they can be a toothed whale or a baleen whale a baleen
whale has bristles that hang down from whales mouths that is used
for straining; kind of like a filter instead of teeth toothed
whales have one blowhole and baleen whales have two blowholes the
tail of a whale is called a tail fluke
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What does that mean? when they meet another whale they havent
seen in a long time they greet each other with sounds that are high
pitch short duration when they are searching for a mate they make
long low sounds that contribute to a song they also make a range of
other social sounds to communicate such as "grunts", "groans",
"thwops", "snorts" and "barks.
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Jumps, flips, hops, and more spy-hopping: a jump where the
whales head will pop out of the water at a vertical angle peduncle
slap: raises tail up out of the water and throws it sideways to hit
the water's surface breaching: jumps straight up almost out of the
water to look for another whale pec slap: slaps flipper several
times on surface head slap: slaps head several times on surface of
the water
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Have you ever heard of whale BFFLs? when they are searching for
a mate they make long low sounds in the form of a song whales are
very social animals and communicate with each other a lot they
recognize each other well, like if one shows another where food is
the whale will remember and greet them next time it sees him/her
whales also stay in pods or groups there is rarely a stray
whale
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What! Whales are endangered? they are becoming endangered
because of commercial whaling, fishing gear, ship collisions, and
habitat degradation they are being hunted by millions of people for
their meat and fat they use the whales to make oil, leather, tools,
and many other materials almost every species of whales is on the
endangered list one thing that is not helping is that there is
hundreds of whale stranding every year in the 2012 count only 6,000
whales are left in the world
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If whales do die out.So what!!!? we would lose a food source
overpopulation on fish and krill lose worlds largest animal thats
like killing a legend would be killing one of our resources for
leather, oil, tools, and other materials we use every day killing
off one of the most seen features in the world taking away the
knowledge of these types of animals for the kids in the future
whales would end up being a dubious legend
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What can WE do? The Simple things picking up trash off the
beach avoid leaks from your car onto the road it all goes to the
ocean dont discard fishing hooks and lines into the ocean the
animals will get tangled up in them or eat them The Extreme things
donate to the save the whales program Adopt-a-whale volunteer for
beach community service Adopt-a-beach and learn to keep it clean
and healthy for all animals
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Interesting facts.. to not drown but still get sleep they have
to have 1 brain cell at a time sleep humpback whales usually live
to be 77 years old they once found a whale that was 211 years old
orca can rise up 7 feet out of water when going its fastest speed
killer whales are colored in that special pattern because when you
look from the top you can't see them because they are black and the
sea is dark but when you look from the bottom you can't see them
because they are white and camouflage with the sun coming down on
the ocean this way it is easier to catch their prey
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Sources Primary http://whaleresearch.com/research.html
http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/nmml/ Secondary Watching Whales by John F.
Waters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale
www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/whales/protected.cf m
www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/whales/protected.cf m
http://www.savethewhales.org/donate.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_sounds
