Humpback Whale

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Humpback Whale
Marinna Stopa
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There are five different groups of animals with
vertebrates

• They are
• Mammals
• Fish
• Reptiles
• Birds
• Amphibians

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There are certain characteristics that make a
Humpback Whale a mammal.

• Theyre warm blooded, give birth to live
  humpback whales, and feed their babies using
  mothers milk. They breathe using lungs. They
  have to come to the surface to breathe. They
  also have small hairs on their body which is part
  of being a mammal.
  

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This is a diagram of a humpback whale.
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What Humpback Whales Eat

• Humpback whales eat
• Shrimp , krill , small fish , and babies drink
  moms milk.
• They have baleen teeth.
• Baleen teeth are soft, furry teeth. A
  humpback whale can open his mouth and shrimp,
  krill, and small fish can swim in.

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What Humpback Whales Look Like Their Size,
Shape, and Color.

• They can be as big as 52 feet long!
• Humpback whales can come in four different
  colors.
• Mottled
• White
• (White is very rare.)
• Black
• Gray

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Appearance

• Humpback whales have dark gray skin and bumpy
  tubercles on their head.
  
• Female humpback whale are slightly bigger then
  a male humpback whale.

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The Humpback Whales Social Habits

• The humpback whale helps other humpback
• whales.
• If a shark is trying to get the mothers calf,
  
• other humpback whales help the mother by
• scaring away the shark.
• If a humpback is trying to catch food, other
• humpback whales join in and make a net.

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• You can find humpback whales in Oceans around
  the world.
• Here are some locations
• Pacific Ocean near North America,
• South America ,
• Africa ,
• Asia ,
• Southern ,
• Arctic oceans .

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Interesting facts about Humpback Whales

• Humpback whales have ears but theyre inside
  their head!
• Humpback whales can blend into the sand on the
  ocean floor.
• Humpback whales dont have teeth, they have
  Baleen
• Humpback whales are very harmless.

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Interesting facts about humpback whales

• Humpback whales can eat up to 50,000 gallons
  of krill, plankton, shrimp, and fish a day !
• Humpback whales have a belly button !
• Back in the olden days people used to kill
  humpback whales for their blubber and oil.

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What should we do to protect humpback whales

• Dont kill them. good

bad
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Learning about Humpbacks
Learning about the humpback whales is awesome and
I recommend it!
One Its cool to read books about humpbacks .
Two Theyre beautiful animals.
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Breaching

• Humpback whales can dive down five hundred to
  seven hundred feet and stay under there for up to
  30 minutes.

• They can breach high out of the ocean then
  splash the water VERY hard !
• If you got slapped that hard, you would have a
  red mark for a week

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Pictures of humpback whales. tail and body
tail
body
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Facts on male and females

• A male Humpback whale can sing up to 15 to 30
  minutes.

• Humpback whales have lungs so they have to come
  up, breath fresh air, and go down into the ocean
  .

• Baby Humpbacks are six feet at birth.

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Different kinds of whales

• Blue whale ,
• Orca whale ,
• Gray whale ,
• Beluga whale ,
• Narwhales ,
• Sperm whales ,
• Humpback whale ,
• Bowhead whale ,
• Minke whale ,
• Trues beaked whale ,
• Sei whale ,
• Brydes whale,
• And more!

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Identifying humpback whales

• No two humpbacks have the same tail.
• The two sides of the tail are called Flukes.

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Population

• There are 20,000 to 30,000 Humpback Whales
  throughout the world.
• They are not an endangered animal.

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Life span
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Camouflage

• Humpback whales can camouflage into sand, coral,
  and the water. Its hard to see humpback whales
  in dark water because their color can get to be
  so dark. Sometimes its easy to spot one. Like
  if its white, water is not white it does not
  camouflage. But it camouflages into ice barges,
  snow, and ice.

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Eye Sight

• When they want to find food and they cant see,
  they send a noise out and it bounces off a fish
  or a rock. Their eye sight is not that good, so
  they use echolocation. If there is a rock, they
  can hear where it is!

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Where I got my information

• I got my information at
• Bing.com and enchanted learning .com .
• I hope you found out a lot. Thank you for
  watching