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  • What special ability, similar to sonar, do dolphins use to "see"?
    echolocation
  • Do whale populations always sing the same tune, or do they learn new songs?
    New songs are shared and learned across the ocean
  • How many songs do we recognize from whales?
    34-36
  • What is one of the three things that animals need to know?
    where their food is, where their family is, where there might be danger
  • In a whale, what helps to bring sound to their ear bones?
    long packets of fat along their jaws
  • Whale singing is a way for them to do what?
    Communicate
  • Can you see whale ears?
    no
  • Whales can hold their breath for how long?
    Over and hour
  • Whale ear bones are about the size of what on a human?
    human head
  • True or false - Whales can hear much better than we do.
    True
  • Which whales sing - males, females or both?
    only males
  • What is the biggest animal on earth?
    Whales
  • What do dolphins use to sense the shape and size of things around them in the dark?
    echolocation
  • True or false - the ocean is silent.
    False
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