Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass

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The genus name, Balaenoptera, means winged whale [5] while the species name, musculus, could mean "muscle" or a diminutive form of "mouse", possibly a pun by Carl Linnaeus [6] [5] when he named the species in Systema Naturae.

Metabolic Expenditures of Lunge Feeding Rorquals Across Scale: Implications for the Evolution of Filter Feeding and the Limits to Maximum Body Size".

However, because blue whales feed low on the food chain, there is a lesser chance for bioaccumulation of organic chemical contaminants. Because their heads are enormous—making up as much as 40% of their total body mass—and they have throat pleats that enable them to expand their mouths, they are able to take huge quantities of water into their mouth at a time.

Records of 'blackfish' (killer, false killer, pilot, pygmy killer, and melon-headed whales) in the Indian Ocean Sanctuary, 1772-1986". What defines an archaeocete is the presence of anatomical features exclusive to cetaceans, alongside other primitive features not found in modern cetaceans, such as visible legs or asymmetrical teeth. In fact, it is rumored that humans can turn in to landwhales if they do not follow a healthy diet and excersize regularly; this statement has yet to be confirmed by science. They are generally solitary or gather in small groups, and have no well-defined social structure other than mother-calf bonds.Walt Disney's film Pinocchio features a showdown with a giant whale named Monstro at the end of the film. Whale ribs loosely articulate with their thoracic vertebrae at the proximal end, but do not form a rigid rib cage.