THE PHENOM

  Mother Nature is full of mystery, awes, phenoms and wonders alike. These can be in form of animals, places, people and things and on our Treatise today, we will be observing the important facts of one of mother nature fascinating phenomenon in form of an animal ; THE WHALE.

    FACTS ABOUT THE WHALE

1) Whales belong to a group of species called the CETACEANS.

2) The Cetacean species also consists of related animals such as dolphins, porpoise and orcas ( also known as Killer whale).

3)  Strangely enough, Whales do not belong to class of Pisces ( fishes)  but rather, they are mammals.

4) As mammals, they possess different features from normal fishes, I.e they breathe air rather than water, They are more intelligent and easily adaptive than normal fishes, they possess lungs rather than gills and they are one of mammals ( including seacows ) that can live their entire life and survive on water.

5) They are homiothermic ( Warmblooded ) ; for this reason, they are usually found in large oceans because of the normal temperature.

6) The young of  a Whale is called a calf.

7) The BLUE WHALE is the largest mammal in the world with a span of about 94 feet ( that is equivalent to a 9- storey building and taller than the famous Chinese bamboo tree ).

8) A group of whales is called a POD.

9) The only predator of whales is Man and this is because of it's abundance in proteins and rich organic chemicals/matter.

10) The Conservation status of Whales is at a  normal range. However, Orcas ( Killer Whales) species are already being threatened and endangered.