WhalesDeveloped in consultation with world experts and illustrated with photographs, diagrams, and drawings, these books are excellent models of nonfiction writing of reports and explanations. Children's research skills will be extended as they read these titles full of interesting details about the animals. What is the largest animal that ever lived? What animal lives in the sea but is not a fish? What animal can sing a song? The answers to these questions and more are in this fascinating book about whales. |
Common terms and phrases
17 meters 98 feet animals or plants baleen whale blubber blue whale Bottlenose dolphins bowhead whale breathe air bristly calf called calves are born calves feed cetacean common dolphin cows dive dorsal fin Echo-location echoes Feeding grounds Feeding Habits feet 17 feet 30 meters female whale fin whales fish flipper flukes giant squid grey whales group of animals help the whale herd humpback whale hunted whales hydrophone Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin injured Killer whales feed Mammals migrating whales milk mother mouth nuzzle ocean plankton phin polar oceans porpoises prey rorqual single blowhole skin sound waves southern right whale species of toothed species of whale sperm whale stop whaling surface swim close toothed whales Tropic of Cancer twin blowholes usually live warm-blooded water a sound whale 56 feet whale calves take whale live whale meat whale oil whale side view whale swimming whale whale whalebone whales have teeth whales Migration routes