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Where do whales live and other interesting facts.
Although whales migrate to warmer waters in the winter, they normally reside in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans. When it is time for them to leave when the weather begins getting cold it takes them about three months to reach their new homes near the Hawaiian Islands. Some whales go to Bermuda instead.
When you describe a whale as a mammal you would be correct; whales are not fish because they have lungs and breathe the air just as people do. Whales breathe through its blowhole, but when it sleeps the whale closes its blowhole very tightly; almost as if it is holding its breath. Whales also have hair on their bodies.
Sea mammals, as they are also called, live in the sea and give birth to babies. Their babies are called calves; females are called cows and males are called bulls. The calves do not have any blubber. Blubber is a thick layer of fat under the skin.
Did you know that dolphins are whales?
Whales are the biggest animals that have ever lived on the planet. The largest animal in the world is the blue whale. There are about 80 different kinds of whales. A large blue whale can eat more than 9,000 pounds of food everyday. They eat plankton. (Plankton is made up of animals and plants that either float passively in the water, or possess such limited powers of swimming that they are carried from place to place by the currents.)
Echolocation, as it is called, is the different way that whales see underwater. They send a sharp clicking noise that travels quickly through the water. Then the sound bounces off a fish, or another object that is in the water. This sound then travels back to the whale. Then the whale can figure out the size and shape of the object as well as how far away it is.
Whale Photo Album
Whale Preschool Activities and Crafts
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Before you leave our website why not take a look at our unique puzzle playsets. These children's wooden toys come in three different themes; Rainforest, Sealife and Dinosaurs. These wooden children's toys are a puzzle and a playset and each puzzle piece is an individual animal. Painted with lead-free paint these are safe toys for children 3 up.
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