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Sentence Examples To the left is an upside down picture of a beached right whale showing the long baleen plates that hang from the upper jaw. The water is strained through a series of bony plates that trap the small creatures making up the baleen whale's main diet. Its front edge was bordered by a sort of storage box of stone, which contained a small vessel made of sewn baleen and wood. And the behemoths contain tremendous amounts of oil and baleen, once commercially lucrative products. In its mouth, this whale has unusually few of the baleen plates that such whales use to filter food from the water. The lower jaw of this form may have been edentulous and supported a gular sac, like that of a giant pelican or baleen whale. But in Antarctic waters, E supurba so abounds that the baleen whales feed on it almost exclusively. Their baleen consists of 260-400 black, coarse, broad, overlapping plates hanging from each side of the upper jaw. Although baleen is commonly called whalebone, it is not bone but keratin, the same material as your nails and hair. Through the comb-like bristles of its baleen filters, it squirts out the seawater, entrapping krill by the bushel. Unlike the baseball-sized throat of baleen whales, this toothed whale's throat is large enough to swallow small seals whole. Minkes are baleen whales that grow up to seven metres and are known to spend time around South African shores. Different species have different density and coarseness of baleen due to their different food sources. Toothed whales do not have a sense of smell, but baleen whales do have some olfactory nerves. Mirrored projections face each other, pulsing like an underwater shot of baleen, white tissue-like net moving in and out. Their baleen plates have bristly inner edges that intertwine to form a strainer or filter. Laboratory tests suggest that gray whale baleen, and possibly skin, may be resistant to damage by oil. Their cavernous mouths are used to gather up small fish and plankton in the same manner as baleen whales, hence the name. They are the most selective feeders of the baleen whales, consuming only certain species of krill and not others. These whales are distinguished from the toothed whales by having baleen, or whalebone, as part of the mouth structure. Show More Sentences Recent evidence has suggested that the Physeteridae family might be more closely related to the baleen whales than to the toothed whales. These whales force seawater through baleen plates to filter out the tiny sea creatures. Its snouty head, patchy grey body and small pedal fins make the dwarf look more like a large dolphin than a baleen whale. One species of whales developed baleen, rows of keratin plates similar to hair that filter out food from the sea. The krill then squirt the seawater sideways through their setal filters, entrapping algae in a feeding pattern much like the baleen whales. The microstructure of these long filaments of papillary horn is very similar in its dermal-epidermal interdigitation to that of baleen in whales. Like a vacuum cleaner, it often scrapes along the ocean bottom, sucking up sand and mud and filtering out tiny marine animals through its baleen. Water and plankton pass along the sides of the tongue and the water comes back out through the baleen which traps the food organisms. Witnesses got an eyeful: gaping mouth, baleen plates, pectoral fins, distended belly... A truly humbling experience. No sauropod ever equalled in size the greatest of the baleen whales. The right and left baleen rows are separated in the front of the mouth. It is a baleen whale, having a row of fingernail-like strands hanging from its upper jaw to filter food from the water. Each baleen plate is composed of a number of rigid hairs sandwiched between two plates made of a hard, yet flexible material. This whale feeds by scooping the matter from the sea floor into its mouth and filtering out the bottom-dwelling organisms with its baleen. Its calls do not match those of any known species, although they are clearly those of a baleen whale, a group that includes blue, fin and humpback whales. Bowheads, also known as Greenland right whales, are baleen whales, meaning that instead of teeth they have bonelike plates that they use to strain food from gulps of water. Since then it has been shown that whales, including baleen species, exhibit exceptional acumen. A baleen plate could be likened to two enormous fingernails stuck together with cat's whiskers in between. Point out that the blue whale is a baleen whale rather than a toothed whale like a killer whale. Killer whales in other parts of the world also use shallow water to trap and even beach baleen whales, just as the killer whales seem to have used Twofold Bay. Show More Sentences As early as the 17th century, European whaling ships travelled Arctic waters in search of whales to supply the markets for oil and baleen. For some species of baleen whales, responses have been claimed for very low sound levels. Behavioural effects, at least for baleen whales, may occur at acoustic levels down to 160 dB or lower. They feed by straining small marine organisms out of the water using plates of baleen, a hornlike substance that forms filaments that hang down from the roof of the mouth. Norway argues that minke whales, the largest of the baleen whales at up to nine metres, are plentiful off its coast and can sustain a controlled hunt. Humpbacks, like other baleen whales, eat large amounts of small prey. Similar findings have been reported for several baleen whale species. Right whales are large baleen whales, meaning that instead of teeth they have bonelike plates, which they use to strain food from large gulps of water. Only one meat sample from a baleen whale exceeded the allowable mercury concentration, the researchers report in the June 15 Environmental Science and Technology. The previously unknown species lived about 25 million years ago and was an early ancestor of modern baleen whales, which feed by filtering plankton from seawater. In the north Pacific, they were heavily hunted by whalers for their oil and baleen. In the one species of Balaenoptera edeni, a medium-sized baleen great whale, there appear to be two forms. At the mole, we found osteological remains of a juvenile baleen whale, which were shown to us by a young fisherman. All whales, dolphins and porpoises can be divided into two main types: toothed whales or baleen whales. They do so by taking large quantities of water into their mouths and then forcing it back out through their baleen. Large baleen whales such as the blue whale, fin whale and the minke whale come to replenish their fat reserves before winter. With none of the versatile plastics to work with in those days, he collected materials as diverse as elephant skin, whale baleen and hippo tooth. In the case of baleen whales, only the fin whale and the blue whale cross the species barrier and can give birth to hybrids. Like many baleen whales, they are migrants, and follow predictable routes according to the season. This group of whales are characterized by long baleen and no ventral pleats. Show More Sentences Clothes moths and dermestids. horn, and baleen quillwork, and natural history specimens. The speedsters of the baleen whales are the Balaenopteridae, also known as rorquals. It has a single ridge extending from the tip of the rostrum to the paired blowholes that are a distinctive characteristic of baleen whales. The baskets made by Alaska Natives are commonly constructed of birchbark or cedar, beach grass, dried grass, spruce or willow root and baleen. After looking at the baleen cells through transmission electron and light microscopes, Szewciw and Fudge discovered that the calcium salts reinforce the keratin and transform it into something stiffer. Mysticetes evolved baleen around 25 million years ago and lost their teeth. The Norse crafted ornamented plates from baleen, sometimes interpreted as ironing boards. They have large reserves of blubber, more so for toothed whales as they are higher up the food chain than baleen whales. Hundreds of long, stiff strips of baleen hang down from their upper jaws. Moving through the water by means of paddle-like appendages, they ravenously hunt down tinier organisms such as bacteria and algae, and are in turn food for organisms as diverse as fish fry and baleen whales. In gulp feeding, the whale opens its mouth to take in a huge mouthful of water, closes its mouth, strains the water out through the baleen apparatus along the sides of the mouth, and swallows its prey. Humpback whales are baleen whales: they don't have teeth, but baleen plates in their mouth, to eat plankton and small fishes by filtering the water. The whale's baleen were used to lash together sleds and kayak frames. The toothed whales and dolphins of the Gully feed on abundant squid and fishes such as lanternfish, while baleen whales like the blue whale are feeding on shrimp-like animals called krill. The fossil bones belong to ancestors of our modern baleen whales and their age was determined using so-called co-occurring index fossils. Lunge feeding by rorquals, a family of huge baleen whales that includes the blue whale, is said to be the largest biomechanical event on Earth. They have also been observed bow riding on baleen whales, and they also bow ride on boats. Minke whales have between 240 and 360 baleen plates on each side of their mouths. The fin whale is a large baleen whale that belongs to the Cetacean order, which includes all species of whale, dolphin and porpoise. It then closes its jaws and pushes the water back out of its mouth through its baleen, which allows the water to leave while trapping the prey. Show More Sentences Right whales are baleen whales, and in the winter spend a lot of time diving for food deep in the water column. Humpbacks have 270 to 400 darkly colored baleen plates on each side of their mouths. They are also known to interact with other baleen whales especially with Humpback whales or Bottlenose dolphins. Basque whalers would have given it such name after observing pods of orcas hunting baleen whales. Whales have an elongated head, especially baleen whales, due to the wide overhanging jaw. Males in some baleen species communicate via whale song, sequences of high pitched sounds. At the end of the Middle Ages, early whaling fleets aimed at baleen whales, such as bowheads. This increased to over 40,000 animals per year up to the 1960s, when stocks of large baleen whales collapsed. In contrast, baleen whales have evolved baleen plates to filter feed plankton and small fish from the water. The meat, blubber and baleen of whales have traditionally been used by indigenous peoples of the Arctic. Reaching up to 65 feet in length and up to 100 tons in weight, the bowhead whale is a baleen whale that lives in Arctic and sub-Arctic waters. He also warns that a reduced availability of plankton could directly affect some baleen whale species that feed on zooplankton. Fitzgerald said the fossil had features that marked it as a member of the baleen whale group, which includes blue whales. Growing up to 10 meters long, these deep sea marine mammals might sound massive but they are said to be the smallest baleen whale found in UK waters. A long record of carbon isotopes, which is reflective of primary production trends of the Bering Sea, exists from historical samples of bowhead whale baleen. They feed by turning on their sides and taking in water mixed with sediment, which is then expelled through the baleen, leaving their prey trapped inside. The baleen of baleen whales consists of long, fibrous strands of keratin. The teeth or baleen in the upper jaw sit exclusively on the maxilla. The humpback has the most diverse hunting repertoire of all baleen whales. Other barnacles found on fin whales include the acorn barnacle Coronula reginae and the stalked barnacle Conchoderma auritum, which attaches to Coronula or the baleen. Show More Sentences Compare the diet of a toothed whale with that of a baleen whale. The agency said there were many sulphur-bottom whales and fin whales detected off Kamchatka, and speculated that baleen whale populations are also recovering. There have been attempts to keep baleen whales in captivity. The sei whale, for example, which feeds on tiny plankton, needs more calcium because its baleen has to be finer and stiffer than that of whales that feed on larger prey. Examples from Classical Literature In these several respects they resemble the plates of baleen in the mouth of a whale. Logs and skulls of baleen whales had been set on end for walls, and mandibles and ribs of whales had been used as rafters. This is precisely how the plates of baleen are disposed in the mouth of a Whale. Furthermore, the right lower lip and the right front baleen of the fin whale are white. Another Arctic titbit is that fleshy cushion of the jaw of the whale which in life holds the baleen. The baleen of whales also belongs to the epidermal exoskeleton. These are known as the baleen plates and form the whalebone of commerce. The Toothed Whales are not furnished with baleen, but with teeth only. The number of baleen plates is about 330 on each side of the jaw. The baleen plates are all black with black or olive-black bristles. Yet we have seen that by his baleen it is impossible correctly to classify the Greenland whale. He has enormous teeth or tushes in the lower jaw, but has no baleen. In the length he attains, and in his baleen, the Fin-back resembles the right whale, but is of a less portly girth, and a lighter color, approaching to olive. Each mouthful of beach sediment yields roughly 11 pounds of the small ghost shrimp, which the whales sift from the sand with their baleen filters. Find more words! 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