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ELA 3: All About Fin Whales 6 Views

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This video covers all aspects of the fin whale, not to be confused with Finnish whales, which tend to be atheist whales who spend a lot of time in saunas.

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00:03
[Dino and Coop singing]
00:12
How did the fin whale get its name? [Fin whale appears]
00:16
And no, its parents didn’t just name it that because the name “Trevor” was going [Two whales with a smaller whale in a pram]
00:18
out of style…
00:19
A fin whale is called a fin whale because…it has a fin near its tail, making it easy to [Coop pointing at a blackboard]

00:24
see in the water. [Woman with a armbands and goggles in the sea]
00:25
Go figure.
00:26
A fin whale is the second largest whale on Earth, next to the blue whale. [Dino pointing at a blackboard]
00:30
And, like their enormous blue friends, they are also baleen whales.
00:33
No chompers on these guys. [The dentist looking annoyed]
00:35
They have long bodies, pointed heads, and thin flukes—making them super speedy swimmers.
00:40
In fact, they can swim up to 17 miles an hour…faster than any other whale.
00:45
Watch out, Michael Phelps. [Whale asking Phelps to race at a swimming pool]
00:46
The fin whale has grooves in its throat that expand when it’s feeding.
00:50
The whales that have these—the fin whale, minke whale, humpback whale, and blue whale—are [Pcitures of the whales]
00:55
also called rorquals.
00:56
That’s the Norwegian word for grooves.
01:00
And…you almost need grooves in your throat to be able to pronounce it… [Man trying to pronounce rorquals]
01:03
Fin whales work in pairs to eat schools of fish. [Whales sat at a table with a school bus full of fish]
01:07
Sounds barbaric, but…hey.
01:08
A whale’s gotta eat.
01:09
Fin whales grow to be about 70 to 90 feet long, and weigh 80 tons.
01:13
They are found in all oceans, but they tend to prefer colder and more temperate waters [Postcard with a fin whale on it]
01:18
to the tropics.
01:20
We are always catching them turning the thermostat down. [Hand bats away whale fin touching the thermostat]
01:23
Fin whales have been recorded more than most other whales because they live in pods and [Man on a boat with a microphone]
01:26
are easily located by their fins.
01:28
The males make the loudest sounds.
01:30
Especially when they drop a hammer on their fin… [Whale doing DIY has an injury from a hammer]
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