Assertion: whale's plate | /r/HasProperty | baleen
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text: Baleen whales extract their prey from seawater as it flows through, or is forced through their baleen plates using their tongues and sometimes their throat muscles.
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: These plates are the baleen that gives the group its name.
text: Rather than teeth, they have 270 to 400 fringed overlapping plates hanging down from each side of the upper jaw, called baleen plates.
text: Baleen whales extract their prey from seawater as it flows through, or is forced through their baleen plates using their tongues and sometimes their throat muscles.
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: 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: 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: Simply put, baleen whales have baleen plates instead of teeth that collect plankton, and toothed whales have teeth that allow them to eat larger fish and marine life.
text: Minke whales have baleen plates instead of teeth and capture their prey trapping them in its baleen bristles while allowing water and other debris to pass through.
text: The whale then expels the water, using its baleen plates to retain the prey.
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: These plates are called baleen.
text: Rather, its mouth is fitted with large plates called baleen.
text: They then strain the water out through large plates called baleen, which allow the water to flow out and the krill (tiny organisms) to be digested.