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| Largest animal ever; eats 6 tons of krill a day; dont eat for 8 months |
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| 2nd largest; V shaped head; fastest of Baleen whales |
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| Long Pectoral Fins, acrobatic, Sings |
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| head is 1/3 of body length; stocky; skimmer |
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| Coastal whale; Narrow tapered head; Dorsal humps; Bottom feeder |
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| 3rd largest whale; fastest was at 31 mph; |
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| Head is 40% of body length; Bony skull used to break ice |
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| Largest of the dolphin family; forms lifelong bonds; social non-threatening; spyhopping |
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| Artic year round; white with age; tusk grow from it's left upper jaw |
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| Blunt head with rounded melon; uses scholocation; |
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| Jet Black; longer fin in cooler waters and shorter fin in coastal water; lob tailing |
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| Moby Dick; largest toothed whale; S shaped blow whole; deepest diving cetacean |
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| almost extinct; swims against the current near sand bar; rarest mammel |
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| Shy; lives in temperate waters; smallest cetacean |
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| Most common and is located in warmer portions of the ocean |
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| River Pig; no dorsal fin; pink eyes; carries yound on their back |
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| Noisy barker like the circus animal and are easily trained; dog faced; ear flap; |
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| 2nd largest seal; inflateable snout; molts their hair; nocturnal |
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| only on land during breeding season otherwise lives on pack of ice; eats penguins; fierce |
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| largest true seal; has whiskers; 4 mammery glands; hunted by polar bears |
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| smallest marine animal; webbed feet; eats bivalves |
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| sea cow; most threatened of all manatees; travels in late afternoons; lungs the length of the body |
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| no external ear; peglike teeth with an enlarged upper incisor; 6 inch thick blubber |
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| fluked tail; flashy upperlip; feeds on sea grass and lives in teh sea grass; spends half of its time in the water |
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| largest land predetor; white to yellowish fur; can run up to 25 miles per housr; primery prey is ring seal |
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