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Whales "Baleines" and Jewel of the Seas

Belle gueule

By Belle gueule,
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Ocean Boy

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I'm an animal lover, since we're simply at the top of their kingdom, and it distresses me to hear or read about a loss of life such as this.

We are only at the top of THEIR kingdom in OUR minds.... and maybe in the minds of dogs.

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nosnobunny

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They may not have "radar" but a healthy whale would certainly know that a cruise ship was in the vicinity. I've been out in a Zodiac (small rubber boat) in the Straits of Georgia between Vancouver and Vancouver Island with a pod of orcas and they were extremely sensitive to any sound we made. They were so aware of our location that they would come up 10 feet beside the boat. No one will ever convince me that the whale hit by the Jewel wasn't either gravely ill or already dead.

 

Beth

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brn2crz

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Popular Toothed Whales include:

 

 

 

 

 

  • Sperm Whale

    Pygmy Sperm Whale

    White Whale

    Killer Whale

    Beluga Whale

    Pilot Whale

    Narwhal

    Dolphins

Popular Baleen Whales Include:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Blue Whale

    Fin Whale

    Bowhead or Right Whale

    Sei Whale

    Humpback Whale

    Gray Whale

 

http://whale.wheelock.edu/archives/ask03/0020.html

 

From: core@coreresearch.org

Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 13:15:47 EST

 

 

<LI>Next message: Orca Network: "Do whales have hair?"

 

How does the sperm whale take the sun with it when it dives to feed?

Sincerely, Michael Furnish

 

 

Dear Michael,

 

 

The sperm whale dives to very deep depths, for sure. Obviously they do not

take the sun with them on their dives - in fact, they do not "see" their

prey as we think of it in a visual sense. Instead, sperm whales are

equipped with very sophisticated echolocation abilities, which allows the

whale to "visualize" their prey utilizing sound waves that are bounced off

of any object in the water column. Just like bats navigate at night, just

like a radar can detect boats and buoys, sperm whales have a very similar

"radar" system in their heads!

Thank you for your question.

 

 

 

 

Echo Location:

 

Have you ever noticed as you study pictures of whales that there are no visible ears? Yet all whales and dolphins are very sensitive to sound. They do have ears with very small openings like birds. But unlike birds, they can gather sound from all around themselves due to living underwater. Very special inner ears detect all kinds of sound. The whale uses this sensitivity in a very special way. By making its own noise and then listening to its own echo he can tell what is around him. This underwater "radar" keeps the whale very alert to his surroundings.

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Ocean Boy

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Sorry, but using sound for echo location is sonar not radar.

 

As for the header that whales are not animals that is also incorrect. We have two major kingdoms. Namely they are animals and plants. Some will argue that certain one cell protozoa are in a third kingdom of their own. If a whale is not an animal just what plant might it be??

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goodml

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My exwife didn't have sonar, and she qualified as a whale.

:D

:D That is too funny! Just about spewed my coffee all over my desk (boss frowns on that). I think, stretch, that you may have forgotten the gravity of the original post again. Behave yourself.

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Ocean Boy

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Now if you take that thought one step further..... it's a good thing that it didn't mistake the asipods for the prow. Yeouch! :o

 

Beth

 

And I bet that in languages where everything is given a gender azipods would be feminine!!! :D

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