NOUN
- whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
How To Use baleen whale In A Sentence
- Right whales are large baleen whales, meaning that instead of teeth they have bonelike plates, which they use to strain food from large gulps of water.
- Kazue Ohishi of the University of Tokyo and his colleagues discovered pathological and seriological evidence of Brucella infection in baleen whales taken in the Northwestern Pacific. Hardy Jones: What Next for Japanese Whaling?
- The bowhead is a single species - closely related to the right whale - and is remarkable for being the only baleen whale to spend all its time in Arctic waters. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
- Krill are the principal food of the baleen whales, such as the blue whale and minke.
- But it is easier to hear the baleen whale, with its lower-frequency call, than the beaked whales, says Theriault.
- Evoking the poster for the original summer blockbuster, a new species of killer sperm whale attacks a baleen whale in an illustration.
- Baleen whales like bowhead (Balaena mysticetus), minke, fin, grey (Eschrichtius robustus), pilot (Globicephala melaena), and other larger whales are also a valued source of food. Indigenous peoples, animals, and climate in the Arctic
- The baleen whales feed on swarms of shrimp-like crustaceans called krill, by straining the sea water through long, fringed baleen plates that hang down from the roof of a cavernous mouth.
- Baleen whales often appear in this region. Be careful!
- When we saw its huge teeth, we knew it couldn't be a baleen whale.
