Whale

Whales are mammals that appear in The Lion Guard.
== Information ==
Humpback whales are known to breach, an action where they leap out of the water, making them popular with whale watchers. Males can produce songs that can last from a few minutes to hours in length. Humpbacks are commonly found in oceans and seas all across the world and migrate thousands of miles in a year, feeding in polar waters and migrating to tropical waters to mate and give birth. Their diet consists of mostly fish and krill, and they use a special technique known as bubble-net feeding to catch prey. Both sexes are known to have multiple partners. The humpback whale's main predator is the orca, though it is also victim to false killer whales and sharks.
Originally, humans nearly hunted the humpback whale to extinction due to whaling, leaving the population above a few thousand members in the 1960s. While numbers have since risen to above one hundred thirty five thousand, the humpback whale is still victim to entanglement in fishing nets, ship collisions, and noise pollution.
Adult humpback whales are fourteen to fifteen meters long while females are usually one to one and a half inches longer than the males. They can reach weights of up to forty tons. Calves are usually fourteen feet long and weigh six-hundred eighty pounds. The body of a humpback is bulky with a thin rostrum and long flippers one-third of their body length. Their dorsal fins are short, either non-existent or long and curvy. As they are rorqual whales, they have grooves between the navel and the tip of the lower jaw. Humpback whales have mouths lined with baleen plates.
Unique to the humpback, they wield bumps or tubercules on their heads and front edges of their flippers. The tail fluke has a jagged trailing edge. Tubercules on the head measure five to ten centimeters thick at the base and poke up to nearly seven inches. They are hollow in the center and have a fragile hair erupting one to three centimeters from the skin. It is suggested that the tubercoles are used for sensory functions, as they are rich in nerves.
The dorsal and upper side of humpback whales are generally black while the ventral and underside has various levels of black and white coloring. White pigmentation can be found on whales that live in the southern hemisphere. Varying color patterns and scars can distinguish humpback whales apart from one another. The genital slit on a female is marked by a rounded lobe, which helps to define which whale is a male or female.
== Appearances in Fanfiction ==
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*Legends of the Lion Guard
==Whales on the Wiki==
All whales on the wiki can be found here.
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