Who's that Pokemon?
Living the aquatic life
Sound Station
Odontocetes vs Mysticetes
Puns and Jokes
100
What species is this?
Orca
100
This skeletal feature is one of many different adaptations that enable whales to survive extreme pressures from deep dives.
Noncompressible bones
100
The loudest animal on earth, the sperm whale, is capable of producing sounds of this dB - an intensity lethal to humans.
230
100
This 'fatty organ' helps odontocetes echolocate and communicate.
Melon
100
What species of whale can fly?
Pilot whales
200
The largest species ever known to exist.
Blue whale
200
Rete mirabile ("wonderful net") serves what purpose to cetaceans.
A heat exchanger.
200
Using this form of sound, mysticetes can communicate over vast distances, often exceeding hundreds of miles.
Infrasound
200
Mysticetes do not have teeth and still consume massive amounts of food thanks to this keratin structure.
Baleen
200
What nationality are cetaceans?
Fin-nish!
300
The unicorn of the sea.
Narwhal
300
Blubber is a key insulating component in cetaceans. In very high latitudes, it can account for this much of an individual's body mass.
70%
300
Odontocetes use this feature to produces sounds while the mysticetes rely on their larynx to produces sounds.
Phonic lips
300
"Bubble net feeding" is a unique phenomenon that is commonly associated with which species of cetacean?
Humpback whale
300
What do whales listen to on long migrations?
Pod-casts
400
What species is this?
Amazon river dolphin
400
Terrestrial mammals use only about 4% of the oxygen they breathe compared to this percent used by cetaceans.
12%
400
By having these bones unfused from the skull and isolated from each other, odontocetes can determine the source direction of sounds.
Tympanoperiotic bones
400
These cetaceans have asymmetrical skulls but are bilaterally symmetric in all other measures.
Odontocetes
400
What's a whales favorite movie?
The Humpback of Notre Dame
500
This species, the largest odontocete, feeds primarily on giant squid at depths of up to 3,200 m or more.
Sperm whale
500
This term is defined by the number of red blood cells per volume of blood.
Hematocrit
500
Of resident and transient orcas, this group preys on marine mammals, lives in smaller pods, and is much quieter.
Transient
500
The largest member of the dolphin family and the weaponized-sea-Oreo, the orca, have these three ecotypes.
Resident, transient, and offshore
500
What do you call a musical pod of dolphins?
An Orca-stra!