Minke+Whale

Animal: Animal Group: Description of animal group || **Minke Whale**
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Mammals These animals are warm blooded and give birth to live young. || Observation Describe your animal (Colour, size, body parts) || The Minke whale is the smallest baleen whale growing to a size of about 8m. My animal has a life span of about 20 years.(Although some web sites say it can be up to 50 years).The minke whale is either dark brown, grey or black || Describe how your animal behaves (moves, flies, runs) || The Minke whales usually swim singly but sometime swim in pods of 2-3. Minke whales dive for about 20-25 minutes and just before diving the curve there back, also there tail doesn't breach the water. || Where it lives || The Minke whale can be found in all oceans and sea's. || What it eats How it eats || Minke whales only eats small fish such as krill, herring, sprat and sometimes squid and sand eels. The way Minke whales eat are the most seen feeding behavior is called lunge feeding which is where the whale lunges at the prey often at high speeds with its mouth open. Then mouth is then closed taking the water out of the whales mouth through the baleen plates and then the trapped prey is swallowed. || How does it have babies? How does it care for its babies? How long do they live? || Minke whales give birth to live calves. They are pregnant for about 10-11 months.
 * Source 1: || http://www.hervey.com.au/Whales/humpback.htm ||
 * Source 2: || http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/whale-info1.htm ||
 * __**Description**__
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 * Source 2: || http://www.acsonline.org/factpack/MinkeWhale.htm ||
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 * Source 1: || http://www.uam.es/otros/cn-scar/zz/scar_pdf/SCARXXIX_0738.PDF ||
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 * **__Feeding Habits:__**
 * Source 1: || http://www.projectminke.com/feeding.htm ||
 * Source 2: || http://www.acsonline.org/factpack/MinkeWhale.htm ||
 * **__Breeding Habits:__**

Mothers feed their calves milk for about 6 months.

My animal has a life span of about 20 years.(Although some web sites say it can be up to 50 years). || What does it do during the day and night? || \What the minke whale does day and night is swim in a pod of 2-3 or just singley. Minkes are known as very inquisitive animals. They will often swim repeatedly around a small boat, and go out of their way to approach a moving boat, before turning away at high speed. || How has it changed over time in Antarctica? || These whales have put developed a 50cm thick layer of blubber so that they can go in much colder places. The whales use sonar (echo location) to form a mental picutre of their surroundings. Minkes are apparently the most ice adapted of the Antarctic baleen whales, they have been seen hundreds of kilometres into heavy pack ice in the middle of winter, and some of them obviously spend the winter there. In very thick ice, minkes breath by sticking their pointed heads vertically out through narrow cracks in the ice. How they can find their way from one open crack to another before they run out of breath is a very strange mystery. || Habitat destruction due to climate change, pollution (including marine debris), Over Fishing reducing food sources and disrupting ecosystems Shipstrike (where ships accidentally kill whales) Bycatch - where whales are accidentally caught by commercial fishing fleets Orca - killer whales || Type in the content of your page here.
 * Source 1: || http://www.acsonline.org/factpack/MinkeWhale.htm ||
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 * Source 1: || http://www.acsonline.org/factpack/MinkeWhale.htm ||
 * Source 2: || http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/whales/species/Minke.shtml ||
 * **Adaptations:**
 * Source 1: || http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/baleen/adaptations.htm ||
 * Source 2: || http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=2449 ||
 * **Threats:** || Whaling - Minke whales are the most widely hunted species of whale.
 * Source 1: || http://www.projectminke.com/marinedebris.htm ||
 * Source 2: || http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/whaling/whale-factsheets/minke-whale ||
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