What is a whale?
A whale is a type of placental marine mammal who nurse their young. (2)
Cetacea are also known as whales. (1)
Cetacea is an infraorder of the Cetaceamorpha clade per Wikipedia. (3)
Cetacea is an order of the Whippomorpha per ChatGPT (4)
They are carnivore. (1)
They are warm-blooded. (1, 2)
Dolphins and porpoises may be considered whales from a formal, cladistic perspective. (3)
Where are whale located?
oceans
What do whales contain?
blubber – a thick layer of fat that insulates them from cold ocean waters (2)
What are types of whales?
gray whale (1,2)
A gray whale may migrate up to 10,000 miles a year, from the warm waters of Baja California to their feeding grounds in the Bering Sea. (1)
dwarf sperm whale (1)
blue whale (2)
baleen whales – include: blue whalesm, right whales, bowhead whales, sei whales, gray whales (2)
Baleen whales have special bristle-like structures in their mouths (called baleen) that strain food from the water. (2)
beluga whale – has teeth (2)
sperm whales – have teeth (2)
Resources
1. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/whale-facts
2. https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/whale
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale
4. ChatGPT 2/26/23
