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Whale Trivia Quiz

Baleen whales are generally bigger and Earth's largest animal, the blue whale, is baleen.

Baleen whales are larger.

Which type of cetacean (aka whale) is larger: toothed or baleen?

This prevents decompression sickness and it makes them less buoyant.

Sperm whales exhale 90% of the air in their lungs.

How are sperm whales able to dive so easily?

Vessels can cause sound pollution, interfering with the orcas ability to communicate and echolocate. Additionally, due to ocean pollution and an increase of contaminates, their population of prey has decreased and lessened in quality.

All of these are risk factors for orcas.

Which factor is a risk for the orca species?

Transients eat no fish!

Which members of the orca species eat no fish?

The subject is still heavily debated. Some scientists believe it may be used as a kind of sensor because of all the nerves it contains and others believe that it may be used in mating since it's more often seen on males than females.

We don't know what it's used for!

True or false: Narwhals' tusks are used for hunting.

The toothed whales have only one blow hole, typically do not have set migratory patterns, chase and capture their prey, use echolocation, and are social, being found in groups and families

The gray whale is a baleen whale!

This means that they swim slowly with their mouths open to filter food.

Right whales are skimmers!

Whale lice are colonies of crustaceans that live on dead skin and algae and they cause very little harm to the whales. The patches vary from whale to whale.

The white patches are called whale lice.

What are the white patches on right whales?

Baleen whales used to be hunted for their baleen because it was used in women's fashion.

Baleen is made out of keratin.

Baleen is a filtering system of plates in whales' mouths to strain food. What is this made out of?

Bubble net feeding is when a group of whales uses bubbles to bring fish to the surface of the water to trap them. Then, they swim up to the surface with their mouths opened.

Humpback whales use bubble net feeding.

Which baleen whale uses bubble net feeding?

Sorry, but it appears you're more like whale prey than an actual whale.

Krill, Euphausia superba, is an important food source to animals living in the Antarctic.

You're krilling me, Smalls!

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) feeding

Whale done!

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An Over~whale~ming Majority Can't Pass My Trivia Quiz, Can You?

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