Humpback whales don’t eat for up to six months of the year?

Blue whales are the biggest animal that has ever existed? (Yes, even bigger than any dinosaur!)

Finback whales are the 2^nd largest whale in the world?

Harbor porpoises are the smallest in the whale family? (Whales, dolphins and porpoises are closely related, and belong to a group of animals called Cetaceans)

Northern right whales are the most endangered large whale?

The most common species of dolphin in New England is the Atlantic white-sided dolphin?

Albino whales and partial albino whales really exist?

Whales and dolphins only have one calf at a time?

Sperm whales can stay underwater for up to an hour and a half?

There are two types of whales? Baleen whales – who filter their prey from the water, and Toothed whales – who use their teeth to capture their prey.

That all whales are carnivores? Though some whales eat just plankton, it’s animal plankton called zooplankton.

Some whales live their whole lives 200 miles away from shore (or more)?

The songs of the humpback whale are only sung by the males?

A baby whale can gain up to 100 pounds (or more) a day by feeding on its mother’s milk?

Whales and dolphins have hair?

Humpback whales have the longest flippers of any species of whale? On an adult, the flippers can get up to 12 to 15 feet in length and can weigh 2,000 pounds or more!

That in the baleen whale species (blue whales, fin whales, humpback whales, etc.), the females are bigger than the males?

One of the favorite prey for humpback whales off New England is a fish called sand eels or sand lance?

A single whale might consume 2,000-4,000 pounds of these fish every day? That equals roughly a million or two calories every day!