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The Gray Whale

The gray whale is a mammal. Like all mammals, it bears live young, breathes air, is warm blooded, and nurses its young. The gray whale is in the scientific order Cetacea (from the Latin "cetus"), and in the sub-order Mysticeti (from Latin for mustache). All Mysticeti whales have baleen fringes inside their mouths rather than teeth, and they have two blowholes.


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Definitions

  • Warm blooded - maintains a constant internal temperature
  • Mysticeti (\mis-ta-cets\) - The baleen whale
  • Cetacean (\si-ta-shan\) - marine mammals that include

    whales, dolphins, and porpoises.


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