The elastic, horn-like material forming the fringed plates that hang from the upper jaw of whales with no teeth. This also strains plankton from the water.
Baleen
Warm air being forecefully passed through a pair of blowholes on the top of a humpback whale's head
Blow
An opening for breathing, located on the top of a whale's head
blowhole
The thick layer of fat between the skin and the muscle layers of whales and other marine mammals
blubber
Small shrimp about the size of the tip of a finger that humpbacks love to eat
krill
The scientific genus and specie name, in Latin, for humpback whales. Means giant wing of New England
Megaptera noveaneglia
To change location periodically, especially by moving seasonally from one region to the next.
Migrate
Whales that have teeth
odontocetes
Humpback whales are known as _______ ________ because they eat both phytoplankton and zooplankton
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