The common name of the whale comes from its coloration.

Anatomy The whale's body is typically a dark steel grey with irregular light grey to white markings on the ventral surface, or towards the front of the lower body.

The sei whale ( or ), Balaenoptera borealis, is a baleen whale, the fourth largest rorqual after the blue whale, the fin whale and the humpback whale.

Still, the day fell short of a Californian idyll.

L5 120 x 62 mm grey

Whale shark in Mozambique.

I've never seen a whale.

In Japanese, the whale was called iwashi kujira , or sardine whale, a name originally applied to Bryde's whales by early Japanese whalers.

The eyes are small and the ears short and tipped with white.

Description The sei whale is the fourth largest balaenopterid, after the blue whale (up to 180 tonnes, 200 tons) and the fin whale (up to 70 tonnes, 77 tons) and the humpback whale (upto 40 tonnes, 44.5 tons).

It's baleen. Moving on.

Is London a great big whale?

Have you ever seen a whale?

A whale is a mammal.

The whale is a mammal.

The animal's large size aids in identification, and it is usually only confused with the blue whale, the sei whale, or, in warmer waters, Bryde's whale.

This is a bowhead whale.

I've never seen a live whale.

Have you ever eaten whale meat?

Have you ever eaten whale meat?

Is eating whale meat wrong?

Two subspecies have been identified the northern sei whale ( Balaenoptera borealis borealis ) and southern sei whale ( Balaenoptera borealis schlegelii ).

But some of them were not whale meat at all.

The first such one is called The Whale Hunt.

Imagine that whale listening from 500 miles.

I've never seen such a large whale.

I've never seen such a large whale.

The bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus ) is a species of the right whale family Balaenidae, in suborder Mysticeti and genus Balaena .

This bird has an eagle like head with a hooked bill, but has rounded wings.

The best way to distinguish between it and Bryde's whale, apart from differences in baleen plates, is by the presence of lateral ridges on the dorsal surface of the Bryde's whale's rostrum.

These are Inuit children cutting whale blubber.

And you can see Rony cutting up the whale here.

Humpback whale has scalloped edges on its flippers.

The whale is the largest animal on the earth.

I've never seen such a large whale.

I've never seen such a large whale.

I saw a whale tail today.

The Euros 5 banknote is grey and the Euros 10 is red .

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There is this dome over the city, this grey dome, says local activist Tuguldur Chuluunbaatar.

It is mostly covered with long, reddish brown hair and grey black skin.

And some of those whale meat samples were whale meat.

The sei whale is among the fastest cetaceans.

There are nine species of baleen whale present, including the humpback whale.

Thirty species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises have been recorded in the Great Barrier Reef, including the dwarf minke whale, Indo Pacific humpback dolphin, and the humpback whale.