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Rorqual Whale, 20th Century
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Title: Rorqual Whale, 20th Century
Caption: Rorquals (family Balaenopteridae) are the largest group of baleen whales, with nine extant species in two genera. Whale is the common name for various marine mammals of the order Cetacea. The Cetacean suborder, Mysticeti (baleen whales), comprises filter feeders who eat small organisms caught by straining seawater through a comblike structure found in the mouth called baleen. This suborder includes the blue whale, the humpback whale, the bowhead whale and the minke whale. All cetaceans have forelimbs modified as fins, a tail with horizontal flukes, and nasal openings (blowholes) on top of the head. Whales inhabit all the world's oceans and number in the millions. Human hunting of whales from the seventeenth century until 1986 radically reduced the populations of some whale species. They are long-lived, humpback whales living for up to 77 years, while bowhead whales may live for more than a century. British Mammals by Sir Harry Johnston, 1903.
Category: ILLUSTRATION • Historical & Fine Arts • Animals
Credit: Album / Science Source / Biodiversity Heritage Library
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Image size: 4200 × 2998 px | 36.0 MB
Print size: 35.6 × 25.4 cm | 1653.5 × 1180.3 in (300 dpi)
Keywords: 20 20TH XX XXTH TWENTIETH CENTURY • 20 XX TWENTIETH CENTURY • 20TH CENTURY • 20TH • ANIMAL • ANIMALS • AQUATIC MAMMAL • ART • ARTWORK • BALAENA • BALAENIDAE • BALEEN WHALE • BEACHED • CETACEA • CETACEAN • CHORDATA • CHORDATE • DRAWING • EDENTULOUS WHALE • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL & FINE ARTS • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • ILUSTRATION • MAMMAL • MAMMALIA • MAMMALIAN • MAMMALS • MARINE MAMMAL • MYSTICETI • OCEAN DWELLING • OCEAN-DWELLING • RORQUAL WHALE • RORQUAL • SEA CREATURE • SEA DWELLING • SEA MAMMAL • SEA-DWELLING • TWENTIETH CENTURY • VERTEBRATE • WHALE • WHALEBONE WHALE
