How to use in-sentence of “baleen”:
– The minke whales are the second smallest baleen whale.
– Each side of the upper jaw has 270-470 baleen plates.
– The minke whale is the smallest of the baleen whales that lives in many places in the world.
– Compared to most baleen whales, gray whales are rather small, growing to be only about 45 feet long.
– Fossil adult baleen whales did have teeth, but modern adults have only baleen.
Example sentences of “baleen”:
– Many early baleen whales also had teeth, but these were probably used only peripherally, or perhaps not at all.
– The sei whale is a dark-gray, stream-lined baleen whale that is found worldwide except in polar waters.
– Baleen whales have baleen plates made of keratin.
– Humpback whales are known for their jumping skills, but other baleen whales also jump out from the water with their body or beat it loudly with their fins.
– A baleen whale uses its baleen to eat.
– Another example are the embryonic teeth of baleen whales.
– The right whales, also known as the black whales are baleen whales with bow-shaped lower jaw and a head that is up to one-quarter of the body length.
– As the name suggests, the suborder has teeth rather than the baleen of Mysticeti whales.
– Bryde’s whale is a baleen whale.
– The bowhead whale is an Arctic OceanArctic baleen whale, a right whale with a large, bow-shaped head that is up to 40% of its body length.
– The baleen filter is developed from different tissue tissue, called keratin.
– In order to feed, a baleen whale opens its mouth widely and scoops in dense shoals of plankton and other small prey, together with a large volume of water.
– Some animals that do this are clams, krill, sponges, baleen whales and many fish such as sharks.
– It is the only baleen whale that is still hunted for money.
– It has very fine grey-black baleen that traps very small particles of food.
– Although they are very heavy, baleen whales are able to jump completely out of the water.
– Early fossil baleen whales did actually have teeth as well as the baleen.
– The oldest true fossils of baleen are only 15 million years old, but baleen rarely fossilizes, and scientists believe it originated considerably earlier than that.
– A humpback whale is a large baleen whale with long flippers and a knobbly head.
– Rorquals are the largest group of baleen whales, with nine species in two genera.
- Many early baleen whales also had teeth, but these were probably used only peripherally, or perhaps not at all.
- The sei whale is a dark-gray, stream-lined baleen whale that is found worldwide except in polar waters.