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	 fin whale at Georges Bank, August 14, 2006
|  | 질의: fin whale | 결과: 18번째/177 |  | 
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^o^| fin whale at Georges Bank, August 14, 2006 CRESLI's fin whale page
 
 Fin Whale
 
 (Balaenoptera physalus)
 Fin whales are the second largest species of whale and the second largest
 animal ever to have lived.  Fin whales (also know as finback whales) can
 reach lengths of over 80 feet and weights of more than 160,000 lbs in the
 northern hemisphere and over 85 feet and 170,000 lbs in the southern hemisphere
 and  are distributed around the world except for the tropics, i.e., they
 have an antitropical distribution.
 Fin whales feed on a wide array of prey species, depending upon availability,
 ranging from small schooling fish such as sand eels, herring and tinker
 mackerel, to crustaceans such as krill and copepods, to squid.  A variety
 of feeding techniques are employed in order to concentrate prey, essentially fin
 whales are "gulpers," taking in large quantities of food and water in each
 mouthful.
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