Japanese Wild Animals(8)

JAPANESE WILD ANIMALS (8)

(Human size)

BALAENIDAE Bowhead whales

Body length 14-15m, Weight 50-60t.
It is the whale finished in the Arctic Ocean.

BALAENIDAE North Pacific right whale

Body length 11-18m, Weight 30-80t.
The whale made the target of the whaling in the 19th century.

ESCHRICHTIDAE Gray whale

Body length 13-14m, Weight 15-35t.
The whale which lives near the seashore.

BALAENOPTERIDAE Blue whale

Body length 21-27m, Weight 95-120t.
The biggest creature on the earth. A life is 100 years.

BALAENOPTERIDAE Fin whale

Body length 18-22m, Weight 40-60t.
Next to Blue whale, a big whale. The physical color isn't symmetrical.

BALAENOPTERIDAE Sei whale

Body length 12-16m, Weight 18-30t.
It is being called the whale of the sardine in Japan. Because, when this whale appears, a sardine can take it.

BALAENOPTERIDAE Bryde's whale

Body length 11.5-14.5m, Weight 12-20t.
Though it looks like a sei whale, the another kind of whale.

BALAENOPTERIDAE
Common minke whale

Body length 7-10m, Weight 5-10t.
In Rorqual whales, the smallest whale.

BALAENOPTERIDAE Omura's whale

Body length 11m, Weight unknown.
In 1998, the new species of the Rorqual whales discovered in Japanese Tsunoshima Is.

BALAENOPTERIDAE Humpback whale

Body length 11.5-15m, Weight 25-30t.
This whale has big breast fin. A pattern behind the caudal fin is difference by each one.

PHYSERIDAE Sperm whale

Body length 11-18m, Weight 20-50t.
The biggest whale in tooth-whale family.

KOGIIDAE Pygmy sperm whale

Body length 2.7-3.4m, Weight 315-400kg.
It is a little whale looks like a shark.

KOGIIDAE Dwarf sperm whale

Body length 2.1-2.7m, Weight 135-275kg.
It is the smallest whale in the Whales.

The size comparison
of the Sperm whales

Sperm / Pygmy sperm / Dwarf sperm

ZIPHIIDAE Cuvier's beaked whale

Body length 5.5-7.0m, Weight 2.0-3.0t.
This whale takes a squid in the deep sea, and it is eating.

ZIPHIIDAE
Longman's beaked whale

Body length 6.5m, Weight unknown.
The specimen of the whole body was collected in Japanese Kagoshima in 2002.

ZIPHIIDAE
Stejneger's beaked whale

Body length 5.0-5.3m, Weight 1.0-1.5t.
The whale which has a big tooth on the bottom jaw.

ZIPHIIDAE
Hubb's beaked whale

Body length 5.0-5.3m, Weight 1.0-1.5t.
This whale was listed as a new species in 1963.

ZIPHIIDAE
Blainville's beaked whale

Body length 4.7-4.9m, Weight 1.0t.
The scar bitten by Cookie-cutter Shark in the body sticks to this whale.

ZIPHIIDAE
Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale

Body length 4.7-5.2m, Weight 1.5-2.0t.
This whale was listed as a new species in 1958.

ZIPHIIDAE Bairds beaked whale

Body length 10.7-12.8m, Weight 11-15t.
It is said that this whale is eating a squid in the deep sea.