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| 5 characteristics of mammals |
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Definition
- breathe air with their lungs
- nurse young with mammary glands
- have hair at some point in life
- endothermic; warm blooded
- viviporous; have live-birth (except the platypus and spiney anteater)
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Term
| Feeding behaviours of baleen and toothed whales |
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Definition
| baleen are filter feeders and used their baleen plates, while toothed have teeth for tearing and grasping |
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Term
| number of blowholes; baleen and toothed whales |
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Definition
| baleen have 2 and toothed have 1 (the blowholes only connect to the lungs and nothing else) |
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Term
| sexual dimorphism; baleen and toothed whales |
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Definition
| baleen females are larger than the males, while toothed males are larger than the females |
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Term
| vocalization; baleen and toothed whales |
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Definition
| baleen are low frequency and toothed are high frequency |
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Term
| socialization; baleen and toothed whales |
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Definition
| baleen are solitary except while during mating season, while toothed are very social and live in pods and/or herds |
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Term
| explain the difference between baleen whales and toothed whales in regards to echolocation |
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Definition
| baleen whales cannot use echolocation while toothed whales can |
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