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Whales are intelligent aquatic mammals.
Whale Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cetacea
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Other Names:
Whale in Foreign Languages:
Afrikaans: walvis
Ainu: humpe)
Albanian: balenë
Arabic: hut
Armenian: ket
Azeri: balina
Belarusian: kit
Bengali: timi
Bulgarian: kit
Catalan: balena
Chinese Mandarin: jingyú
Min Nan: hái-ang
Czech: velryba
Danish: hval
Dutch: walvis
Esperanto: baleno
Estonian: vaal
Faroese: hvalur
Tagalog: balyena
Finnish: valas
French: baleine
Old French: balaine / baleine
Galician: balea
Georgian: vešapi
German: Wal
Greek: fálaina
Greenlandic: arfeq
Gujarati: vhel machli
Haitian Creole: balèn
Hebrew: livyatán
Hindi: vhel / hvel machli
Hungarian: bálna / cet
Icelandic: hvalur
Ido: baleno
Indonesian: ikan paus
Javanese: iwak paus
Inuktitut: arvik
Inupiak: agviq
Italian: balena
Japanese: kujira / kujira / isana
Korean: gorae
Latin: balaena
Latvian: valis
Lithuanian: banginis
Macedonian: kit
Malay: ikan paus
Maltese: balena
Nahuatl: hueyimichin
Navajo: lóó'tsoh
Ngarrindjeri: kondoli
Norwegian: Bokmål: hval / kval
Nynorsk: kval
Occitan: balena
Okinawan: guzira
Old English: hwæl / hronfisc
Persian: nahang / vâl
Polish: wieloryb / walen
Portuguese: baleia
Romanian: balena
Russian: kit
Scottish Gaelic: muc-mhara
Roman: kit / velriba
Slovak: velryba
Slovene: kit
Spanish: ballena
Swahili: nyangumi
Swedish: val
Thai: waan
Tswana: leruarua
Turkish: balina
Ukrainian: kyt
Urdu: vhel
Uyghur: kit
Uzbek: kit
Vietnamese: cá voi / cá ông / cá
ông voi / kình ngu
Welsh: morfil / morfilod
Yiddish: val-fish
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Size: Whales vary great in size. Large whales
can measure up to 110 feet and weigh up to 180 tons.The
largest whale is the blue whale. The smallest whale
is the dwarf sperm whale which measures only 8.5 feet
long.
Habitat: Whales collectively inhabit all of
the world's oceans.
Description: Whales have streamlined bodies.
All whales also have flippers, tail flukes and blow
holes.
Diet: Baleen whales eat plankton, while toothed
whales eat fish and other marine mammals like seals,
dolphins or other smaller whales.
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Communication: Whales communicate using
sounds and through body language. Communication
and sounds created by whales differ from one whale
species to another.
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Did You Know?
Whales and manatees are the only mammals
that spend their entire life in the
water.
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Gestation: Whales carry their young from 9 to
18 months, depending on the species.
Birth: Whales give live birth. The size of the
calf will vary by species.
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Life Span: Whales typically live 20 to
40 years, but some species can live as long as
80 years.
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Did You Know?
A blue whale calf drinks about 130
gallons of milk per day, and gains up
to 200 pounds per day during periods
of its nursing period.
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Social Structure: Whales typically have very
strong social ties. The strongest social ties is typically
between mother whale and her calf. Whales often congregate
in social groups referred to as a pod.
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