What is the family of a whale?

Asked by: Brenda Hunter

cetacean familycetacean family include whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

What family group does a whale belong to?

Their closest non-cetacean living relatives are the hippopotamuses, from which they and other cetaceans diverged about 54 million years ago.
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What animal kingdom are whales?

Order – Cetacea

Cetaceans include all whales, dolphins, and porpoises. The word “cetacean” is derived from the Greek word for whale, kētos. Biochemical and genetic studies suggest that even-toed ungulates, especially hippopotamuses (Family Hippopotamidae), are cetaceans’ closest living terrestrial relatives.

Is a whale in the fish family?

Whales are a member of the cetacean family, and as such, despite being wholly water-resident, whales are mammals, not fish.

Is whale a mammal or a fish?

mammals

Whales and porpoises are also mammals. There are 75 species of dolphins, whales, and porpoises living in the ocean.

Are whales part of the dolphin family?

Family Ties and Physiology

First thing’s first: all dolphins are whales, but not all whales are dolphins. That’s because the Cetacean order of sea animals encompasses dolphins, porpoises and what we think of as whales. And Cetacean is derived from the Greek word for whale, ketos.

What are whales and dolphins classified as?

Cetaceans. Dolphins, porpoises, and whales all belong to a group of marine animals known as cetaceans. Like all mammals, cetaceans are warm-blooded, breathe air, and suckle their young.

Why whale is not a fish?

Whales, along with dolphins and porpoises, are warm-blooded mammals and breathe air like humans do. There are some significant differences between whales and fish: Whales are warm blooded. Fish are cold blooded.

Why whale is a mammal?

Whales are mammals which means that, like humans and other land mammals, they have three inner ear bones and hair, they breathe air, and the females produce milk through mammary glands and suckle their young.

What animal is most closely related to whales?

hippos

According to molecular evidence, the closest living relatives of whales are, quite surprisingly, the artiodactyls, a group of hoofed mammals that includes deer, cows, sheep, pigs, giraffes, camels and hippos.

Why are dolphins and whales not considered fish?

Even though they live in the ocean all of the time, dolphins are mammals, not fish. Like every mammal, dolphins are warm blooded. Unlike fish, who breathe through gills, dolphins breathe air using lungs. Dolphins must make frequent trips to the surface of the water to catch a breath.

Do whales lay eggs?

Do whales lay eggs? The answer is no. Because whales are marine mammals, the females carry the offspring in their wombs and have live births! However, since whales are fully aquatic mammals, how whales give births is much different than the births of terrestrial and semi-aquatic animals.

Do whales get periods?

Other mammals, such as dogs, cows, horses, or whales don’t have periods. Instead, their reproductive hormones induce “the heat” (i.e. oestrous cycle) which results in bleeding only in dogs (this being the source of a common misconception about menstruating dogs).

What are the 3 mammals that lay eggs?

These three groups are monotremes, marsupials, and the largest group, placental mammals. Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs. The only monotremes that are alive today are the spiny anteater, or echidna, and the platypus. They live in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea.

Do whales give birth out of their mouth?

The mom produces milk using her mammary glands, which the baby whale can suck on for food. Male whales can not have babies for the same reasons your dad can not have babies. Answer 2: Baby whales (calves) are born underwater tail first.

Do whales sleep?

Observations of bottlenose dolphins in aquariums and zoos, and of whales and dolphins in the wild, show two basic methods of sleeping: they either rest quietly in the water, vertically or horizontally, or sleep while swimming slowly next to another animal.

What are baby whales called?

calves

Baby whales are often referred to as “calves”, whereas mothers are referred to as “cows”. Males are sometimes referred to as “bulls”.

Do whales have nipples?

Whales and dolphins do not have external nipples, instead their nipples are enclosed within mammary slits. Upon stimulation of the calves nudging, the nipple is exposed and the calf positions itself such that the nipple is at the gape of the calf’s jaw for feeding.

Can humans drink whale milk?

Whale’s milk, not used for human consumption, is one of the highest-fat milks. It contains, on average, 10.9% protein, 42.3% fat, and 2.0% lactose, and supplies 443 kcal of energy per 100 grams.

Which animal has the biggest breast?

A blue whale’s mammary glands are the largest in the world. A blue whale’s breast is only as big as a small person at 5 feet long, but it’s as heavy as a newborn elephant at 250 pounds… and that’s only for a single mammary gland! Underwater mammary glands don’t work like a human’s.

Do dolphins have Buttholes?

In male dolphins a long slit houses the genitals and a small slit behind it is the anus. In female dolphins the genitals and anus share one long slit with the anus located behind the genitals. Female dolphins also have two more slits, one to either side of the genital-anal slit, which house the mammary glands.

Do dolphins have pubic hair?

Unlike most mammals, dolphins do not have hair, except for a few hairs around the tip of their rostrum (beak) which they lose shortly before or after birth. The only exception to this is the Boto river dolphin, which has persistent small hairs on the rostrum.

How many racoons can fit in your bum?

The human anus can stretch up to 7 inches before taking damage. A raccoon can squeeze into holes as tight as 4 inches, Meaning you can take almost two full raccoons up your ass.