Whale

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by the commercial whaling industry. rs eliminated or greatly reduced the numbers of some species of baleen s in certain oceanic regions where s once frolicked in abundance. This is particularly true in parts of the Arctic Ocean and the eastern North Atlantic Ocean, where the blue was almost completely exterminated in the early 1900s. Some species of s, however, are numerous today in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.
The skin of s is usually black, gray, black and white, or all white. Some, such as the blue , have skin that is bluish-gray. The surface of the skin is smooth, but like other mammals, s have hair. Hair first appears while the fetal is still developing inside its mother's womb. In adult s, hair is confined primarily to a few bristles in the head region and is largely absent over most of the body. s that live in polar regions are insulated from the extreme cold by a layer of blubber, or fat, enveloping their bodies.
Baleen s
The baleen s include the family of right ...

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