Balaenidae Essays

  • The Bowhead Whale

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    Many people can feel connected to the earth and their surroundings by observing and learning the way of the animals, including the whales. The Bowhead whale has been an important part in the Inuit-Inupiaq people of northern Alaska’s way of living. Native Americans have used animals like the whale in their stories to explain life and moral values. An American Indian author, Vine Deloria Jr., stated that, “Native Americans saw themselves as being related in some fundamental manner to every other living

  • Humpback Whale Essay

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    regular swimming. This is might be added to the essay if there is enough room if anything is deleted Humpback whales belong to the Mysticeti subphylum which is the baleen whales and consists of four families, the Balaenopteridae, Eschrichtiidae, Balaenidae, and Neobalaenidae (Milinkovitch and Lambert, 2006). The common morphological features of the Mysteceti jaw is that there is a loss of teeth, an extension of the maxillae where the baleen plates develop, the mandibular rami being attached to each

  • Whales

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    Whale weighs as much as 20 elephants but lives beneath the sea. The blue whale is Earth's largest animal. Larger than the largest of ancient dinosaurs, blue whales can grow to be more than 100 feet (30 meters) long and weigh nearly 150 tons. Not all whales are so large. The much smaller pilot whale grows to about 28 feet (8.5 meters) in length. And dolphins, which belong to the whale family, range only from 3 to 13 feet (1 to 4 meters). Although whales spend their lives in the sea, they are