Biology 2485B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Baleen Whale, Bait Ball, Proprioception
17 Dec 2015
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Not a good krogh organism at all. If you want to know about proprioception you choose something that you can work with in the lab, not the case with whales. Whales are one of the largest animals on this planet, too hard to study. Eating small fish and plankton some of the largest animals that have ever lived eat some of the smallest things (blue whale lives on zooplankton and small fish) Food gets filtered out as it passes through the gills. Baleen in mysticeti whales have this very long growth of keratin from the upper jaw and they use this to filter out food take in water, squirt the water out and eat the remains) Discovery of a sensory organ that coordinates lunge feeding in the rorqual whales . Have something that is clearly nervous tissue, clearly fed with blood and clearly.
