How to Use baleen whale in a Sentence

baleen whale

noun

• Their only food source would be the large baleen whales.
  — Jamie Seidel, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
• The biggest whales of all (blue, humpback and so on) are baleen whales.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019
• The minke whale is the smallest baleen whale in Alaska waters.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022
• Much of how baleen whales hear, compared to toothed whales, is still a mystery.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
• There are 14 types of baleen whales, including the humpback, blue, and fin whales.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• All are baleen whales, possessing a mouth full of comb-like plates, rather than teeth.
  — Kathryn Miles, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Among marine mammals, baleen whales account for more than half of the biomass.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 27 Feb. 2023
• The health of baleen whale populations supports the health of a host of other species.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• North Pacific right whales are baleen whales that can grow to be 64 feet long and 70 years old if left alone.
  — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
• Known as the largest animals in the world, blue whales are members of the baleen whale family.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2023
• The peculiar grin of the baleen whale is turning out to be full of surprises.
  — Jennifer S. Holland, Smithsonian, 1 Sep. 2017
• However, even in this case, the larynx of a large baleen whale is pretty wide.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2013
• There’s a Miocene era baleen whale skull on display that was found in the Calvert Cliffs in Maryland, for example.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2020
• Yet the baleen whale is obviously a far cry from any mammal on land.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2011
• Sea lions, Guadalupe fur seals and baleen whales died at higher rates than usual.
  — oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2020
• And the whale shark is a docile scoop feeder, honestly closer to a baleen whale than our mental image of a scary shark.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
• Most of the species that have benefited from the moratorium are baleen whales.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• The North Atlantic right whale is a baleen whale that uses a filter-feeder system to consume krill.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2018
• For years, scientists have disagreed about which species of baleen whale came first, and how the toothless species were related.
  — Author: Karen Weintraub, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2018
• Other filter-feeding baleen whales like blue, fin and minke whales produce much simpler songs that are more or less the same every year.
  — Will Dunham, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2018
• Only one baleen whale species, a humpback, was observed grieving.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 June 2018
• In 19th-century Australia, a pod of killer whales was known to herd baleen whales into a bay near a whalers’ settlement, then slap their tails to alert the humans to ready the harpoons.
  — Camille Bromley, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
• The team was testing a hypothesis about baleen whale foraging that grew out of research on seabirds.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• In the popular 2003 animated film Finding Nemo, two fish gulped down by a baleen whale escape when the whale shoots them out on a jet of water.
  — Claire Eamer, Smithsonian, 27 Mar. 2018
• This image shows the similarity between the way the pouch beneath the pelican’s bill functions and the throat of a feeding baleen whale.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• And there is fossil evidence megalodons used this tactic to stun their favorite meal — baleen whales.
  — Jamie Seidel, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
• Many researchers are investigating the question of how baleen whales got so big.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2018
• The lion’s share of this category is made up of baleen whales such as the fin whale, which has a biomass of eight million metric tons—around 60 percent of the aquatic mammals.
  — Jan Dönges, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
• Along with seals, seabirds and baleen whales, penguins gorge mainly on Antarctic krill, a shrimp-like crustacean that thrives on the kind of phytoplankton found under sea ice.
  — Bill Weir, CNN, 26 Mar. 2023
• Fourteen species of baleen whales are instrumental in moving carbon, nitrogen and iron through the ocean, a 2021 study in Nature found.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024