Assertion: blue whale's plate | /r/HasProperty | baleen
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text: Because the blue whale is a baleen whale it does not have any teeth, but instead relies on its baleen plates to capture its prey.
text: Instead of teeth, they have keratinous (human nails and hair are made of the same material) plates, called "baleen", which act like a comb, which releases swallowed water and keeps the krill inside the mouth.
text: Unlike other whales that have teeth, blue whales have baleen plates to eat the small crustaceans in a method called filter feeding.
text: Blue whales filter their food through their baleen plates.
text: Because the blue whale is a baleen whale it does not have any teeth, but instead relies on its baleen plates to capture its prey.
text: To enable them to gulp the krill, they have to let out water by squeezing it through their baleen plates.
text: They feed almost exclusively on krill, straining huge volumes of ocean water through their baleen plates (which hang from the roof of the mouth and work like a sieve).
text: Blue whales filter their food through their baleen plates.
text: The blue whale eats mostly krill (small shrimp-like crustaceans) by using its baleen plates lining its mouth to sieve krill from the water.
text: In order to eat, the blue whale expands its throat plates and takes in both water and krill, then it pushes the water out through its baleen plates, swallowing the krill that has stayed inside its mouth.
text: The blue whale eats mostly krill (small shrimp-like crustaceans) by using its baleen plates lining its mouth to sieve krill from the water.
text: The blue whale eats mostly krill (small shrimp-like crustaceans) by using its baleen plates lining its mouth to sieve krill from the water.
text: The front part of the mouth is thick and has fringed plates of fingernail-like material, called baleen.
text: They have fringed plates of material similar to that of fingernail, called baleen.
text: Rather, its mouth is fitted with large plates called baleen.
text: These plates are called baleen.
text: they have comb like plates called “baleen”, which releases the swallowed water and keep the krill inside the mouth.