baleen

Near the arctic is where the food is, all baleen whales migrate there for that reason.

In exchange for helping the whalers hunt baleen whales, the whalers would leave the tongue of the whale to the orcas.

I saw "branch of baleen family" and was blinded by my own joke w/o reading the whole paragraph.

Perhaps some quirk led to development of baleen, which the proto-whales discovered was useful in the sea. So they stayed there.

The eventual loss of unneeded teeth and the later development of baleen seems much easier.

* A period of overlap, during which baleen and teeth would have functioned alongside each other.

> everybody knew the whales did not have baleen when they were land-dwelling, I mean, how would that workAnd what if everybody were wrong?

The amount of water you need to pump through the baleen to get a meal has to be enormous and foreign key relationships will be some substring match.

The fact that only one branch of cetaceans has baleen suggests that it came about after the cetaceans' common ancestor went in the water.

When I eat Jello I press my tongue against the roof of my mouth and squeeze the Jello through my teeth and imagine I am a whale filtering krill against my baleen.

One former employee likened them to a humpback whale, feeding on 'krill headcount' from acquired companies while squeezing the excess out through their baleen filters.

In pre-school the teacher told a story about some nasty blue whale that was about to eat some poor castaway with "its big teeth" and I said "but Teacher, blue whales have no teeth, they have baleen hair".

* Archaic whales first turned from raptorial into suction feeders, which then triggered tooth loss and, eventually, facilitated the emergence of baleen.

I imagine a fleet of self-replicating wave glider / baleen barges that slowly, relentlessly ply the oceans, gathering the bulk materials to make their offspring.

Unfortunately, I couldn't use in real env because my tests are dependent on Oracle database and running oracle database in each container are slow which defeats the first goal of baleen.

I am just assuming if his signature is that of a baleen whale just at a higher frequency, wouldn't others still recognize that IF they were close?If anything, following the human interpretation of this as the "poor lonely-heart whale", he just has to get out of his comfort zone and explore the waters more... this too "could be viewed as inspiration to anyone with a lonely heart"!