whales

     

Whales are cetaceans which are neither olphins (i.e. members of the families Delphinidae or Platanistoidae) nor porpoises. Orcas (Killer Whales) and Pilot whales have "whale" in their name, but they are dolphins for the purpose of classification.

Trivia about whales

  • Dr. Roger Payne & his wife released recordings they made of these animals "singing"
  • They include killers, humpbacks & sperms
  • The water mammals called cetaceans are divided into dolphins, porpoises & these
  • Gam or pod: a herd of these large mammals
  • Blue,Sperm,Right
  • At age 13, Keisha Castle-Hughes was nominated for an Oscar in 2004 for playing a Maori girl who "rode" these cetaceans
  • The loudest sound from a living source is produced by these sea creatures
  • 1987:"The ____ of August"
  • These creatures usually contributed the materials that early scrimshanders carved
  • These large mammals are divided into 2 main groups, toothed & baleen
  • The first ban on killing the "right" types of these creatures came into force in 1935