Did you know that whales aren't fish, but mammals like us? In Whales for Kids, you'll learn that whales breathe air, have hair, are warm-blooded, give live births to their young, and feed their young milk. They are quite large—much bigger than humans. In fact, a whale's size can range from 9 to 98 feet! They can be as small as the 600-pound dwarf sperm whale or weigh more than 200 tons, like the colossal blue whale. Imagine the average house (approximately 2,000 square feet), and you have some idea how heavy 200 tons is.

There are two types of whales: toothed and baleen. Toothed whales use their teeth for hunting and eating. This group includes sperm whales and orcas, as well as dolphins, porpoises, and narwhals. Speaking of narwhals, a narwhal's horn is actually one long tooth protruding or sticking out through its lip! Baleen whales are larger than toothed whales and include blue whales, humpbacks, bowhead whales, and many others. They eat by straining creatures through the fringed plates of long, fingernail-like material called baleen.

For a long time, people hunted whales, and blue whales are now rare because of widespread
commercial hunting. Other whale populations have ended up on the verge of extinction. Scientists believe that ending the practice of whale hunting, improving commercial fishing practices, and making efforts to clean the environment have improved whales' chances of long-term survival.

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What you will learn in Whales for Kids:
0:00 Introduction
0:20 What is a whale?
1:20 The two types of whales
2:23 How toothed whales eat
3:19 Diet for baleen whales
4:28 Other interesting facts
5:35 Whale brains
6:36 Why they are important to the environment
8:06 Review of the facts

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