Balaenidae

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Balaenidae is the Family name of the whales which includes the Right Whales and Bowhead Whales. They are part of the baleen whales which use a series of plates to strain their food out of the ocean water. The feed on copepods which are a tiny sort of zooplankton.[1]

Bowhead Whale head bones








References

  1. Balaenidae Cetacean Family New Bedford Whaling Museum. Accessed June 20,2018.