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Newborb Baby Whale

Averaging 25 feet (7.6 meters) long at birth, blue whale babies nurse for about seven months until they double in size. Gaining about 200 pounds (90 kilograms) a day, they are the biggest babies ever known to have roamed the Earth

Salt water is bad for whales as it is for us, so when they eat they push the water out through their baleen and swallow the fish. Baleen is the Humpback whales teeth. Baleen looks like a bunch of hairs woven tightly.

Male and female whales can produce sounds, but only the male can produce organized songs with distinct themes. The male may repeat the same song dozens of times. Songs can be heard from over 20 miles away and may last for 20 minutes.

Only male whales sing. When a whale breaches, it could still be singing, but you can't hear it because the song won't have anything to vibrate off of in the air. When a new whale comes to join a pod it brings it's own song, and instead of changing its song, the rest of the pod changes their song to the new whales song! The only natural (non-human) predator that has ever been recorded attacking a blue whaleis packs of killer whale, or Orcas. It is highly unlikely that they would ever attempt to take down an adult blue whale, do to the sheer difference of scale between the two whales. But Groups of orcas have been known to attack and kill young blue whales, even with the mother Blue whale present and trying to defend it.

1~ Why Do Whales Sing

Humpback whales may sing not to court mates but to help explore the seas around them. When a male humpback moves someplace new, he changes his songs to match those coming from other nearby whales The traditional explanation for why whales do this is that male whales are singing to seduce female whales, and that females get really turned on by songs that are currently in style

2~Why Do Whales Jump Out Of The Water

The impact of the water when they fall back in helps to dislodge parasites such as barnacles from their skins. Breaching is when their body actually leaves the water. Some may say that young whales breach as a form of play or to develop their muscles. Adults breach for various reasons. It has been thought that it may be to transmit a message to members of their group and seeing as breaching requires a significant amount of energy, a whale may breach to demonstrate its physical abilities. It could be a technique to help them feed by stunning or scaring prey. Also, it has been thought that this speeds them up because there is less resistance when they are in the air than in the water.

Tarin Hill (20) Introduction Mrs. Mckee/Mrs. Poole prd. 4 (40) Body English 11, 4.0 (20) Conclusion 11 December 2009 (20) Research (Title) What is like to be the biggest mammal on the planet? What is the feeling of seeing one up close and personal? What does it feel like to see one jump into the air without using legs or wings? This mammal we know today is the whale. I chose to research all about baby whales. I was most interested to find out how they lived, how much they weigh at birth, how they sleep and how they defend themselves when they grow up. I found many websites with useful information, but the most useful was

My first question asks about how baby whales live. Newborns come in many different shapes and sizes. From color, size, shape, jaw shape, the way they eat. When newborns are born they are born in pods

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