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This is a special video for kids, students, teachers and people keen about general knowledge and facts. It focusses on naming the types of whales.
Did you know there are More than 50 species of whales belonging to nine Extant families.


Whales are large-sized marine mammals belonging to the Cetacea infraorder just like porpoises and dolphins. Being in existence for more than 40 million years, they are the only mammals to survive underwater throughout their lives and cannot exist when brought to land.

The following are the species belonging to the different families.

Blue Whale
Sperm Whale
Humpback Whale
Beluga Whale
Narwhal
Gray Whale
Fin Whale
Bowhead Whale
North Atlantic Right Whale
North Pacific Right Whale
Livyatan
Amazon River Dolphin
Short-finned Pilot Whale
Bryde’s Whale
Southern Right Whale
Sei Whale
False Killer Whale
Baiji
Spade-toothed Whale
Common Minke Whale
Long-finned Pilot Whale
South Asian River Dolphin
Pygmy Sperm Whale
Omura’s Whale
Northern Bottlenose Whale
Dwarf Sperm Whale
La Plata Dolphin
Pygmy Right Whale
Blainville’s Beaked Whale
Southern Bottlenose Whale
Strap-toothed Whale
Sowerby’s Beaked Whale
Antarctic Minke Whale
Baird’s Beaked Whale
Tropical Bottlenose whale
Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale
True’s Beaked Whale
Gervais’ Beaked Whale
Pygmy Beaked Whale
Kogia Pusilla
Eubalaena shinshuensis
Andrews’ Beaked Whale
Perrin’s Beaked Whale
Gray’s Beaked Whale
Shepherd’s Beaked Whale
Hector’s Beaked Whale
Eubalaena Belgica
Akishima Whale

Appearance and Physical Description
Size: They have a wide range of sizes varying from 102.3 inches (2.6 meters) to 1177 inches (29.9 inches).

Weight: Their weight on an average varies between 298 lbs and 190 metric tonnes.

Color: The color of whales varies from different shades of gray, black, and blue that tend to get darker as they mature in age. Certain species are brown, while the beluga whale is white since birth.

Teeth: Some whale species have teeth while a few do not. The toothed whales have sharp conical teeth with the help of which they grab and catch their prey, before swallowing them. Some even make use of their teeth to tear and break their game.

Baleen whales are the toothless species that have baleen plates inside their mouth with the help of which they can expel the water but retain the plankton and krill that they feed.

Limbs: Their forelimbs have been modified into flippers and are similar to paddles. Though most whales lack hind legs, it is present in some of them, resembling a short stub.

Heart: They have a four-chambered heart, with thick arterial walls, the total weight being between 395 pounds and 440 pounds on an average.

Fin: They have four fins, two pectoral, a dorsal and a caudal. While the caudal fin help in to-and-fro movements the pectoral fins serve as stabilizers and rudders.

Tail: The whales have horizontal tails, with the tail fin located in the front.

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