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Whale species

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Minke whale
  • 8 m, 6-8 tons.
  • Dark gray back
  • Pale underside and a bright white large diagonal band across the middle of the flippers
  • Diet: small fish and krill.

 

Fin whale-finback whale
  • 21-25 m, 40-50 tons.
  • Dark grey back and white underside
  • White side of the lower lip.
  • Diet: small fish and krill.

 

Humpback whale
  • 11-13 m, 25-30 tons.
  • Dark grey back and white underside
  • Pectoral flippers 4 m long and occasionally shows its tail when diving
  • Diet: small fish and krill.

 

Blue whale
  • 25-31 m, 80-130 tons.
  • Back and underside are blue-gray
  • The biggest mammal in the world
  • Diet: krill (up to 4 tons a day)

 

White or beluga whale
  • 3-4.5 m, 0.7-1.5 tons.
  • Light brown at birth, it turns bluish gray then white as an adult.
  • Diet: varied-mollusks, worms, fish, squid...

 

Other species

 

Grey seal

 

  • 2-2.25 m, 0.2-0.4 ton.
  • Also called horse head seal
  • Lives in groups along rocky coasts
  • Diet: fish, mollusks and crustaceans.

 

© Photos credits: UAQM, Wikipedia, GREMM, Renaud Pintiaux