Southern+Right+Whale

Animal: Animal Group: Description of animal group || southern right whale baleen whales (whales without teeth) whales are some of the biggest animals in the word. they look like fish but are actually mammals so they have ware blood and must surface the ocean for air. || Observation Describe your animal (Colour, size, body parts) || A female southen right whale reaches 18 metres in length while the male reaches about 16.5 metres. they both weigh up to 100 tonns. It has an extremly large head which takes up over a 1/4 of there hole body length. It has lots of barnacols on it (manly on the head). it has a small blowhole which blows water up to 1.5 metres in length.It noarmally is a shade of blackish grey. It also has the largest testcals and penius of any living creature with it taking up about 15% of the normal body length.Southern Right Whales are some of fattest whales around with are large amount of blubber covering there bodies || Describe how your animal behaves (moves, flies, runs) || They may look bulky with the big head and smalish body but southern right whales are actually very ajile, active and fast. They do many tricks like flipper slaping and even head standing (where they form a single virtacal line sort of how we do a underwater handstand) but there favourite pastime is floating like logs on top of the water. They many travel in pairs (mother and calf) or sometimes in bigger groups of twenty. || Where it lives || the southern right whale lives in the northern waters of Antarctica. but they head a bit closer to the south of Australia in between June and October || What it eats How it eats || Southern right whales feed on krill and plankton. There are two reasons why, because they have baleen plates instead of teeth (baleen plates are like are finger nails except a lot bigger. they have small gaps so the water and dirt can get out but not big enougth for krill). and because they have such small throats that they couldn't swallow anything bigger then an orange! || How does it have babies? How does it care for its babies? How long do they live? || In summer the southern right whale likes to hang out in depper waters away from land but in winter (when they give birth) They prefere the waters closer to shore. They give birth to there young near the waves in sheltered bays. After birth the mother and calf go back out to sea as summer draws near. A new born baby weighs up to 2 tonns and is around 5.5 metres long. They stay with there mum for about a year or more then they depart. they live up to 70 years. t || What does it do during the day and night? || In the day whales swim,play and when they get tied they float on the surface like logs. when it gets to night time they go to sleep, but not like us. they sleep with part of their brain awake so they don't drown. they can sleep underwater for over 2 hours at a time, resurfacing when they need a breath of air. || How has it changed over time in Antarctica? || One main Adaptation the southern right whale has made is that their blubber has gotten thicker and produced more of a fatty covering so they can stay warm in the freezing artic waters. It is also a disagvantage becouse the whale hunters want their blubber and now there is more of it. || Type in the content of your page here.
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