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Baleen

Baleens or baleen plates are triangular sheets of keratin that make up a filter-feeding system (the "Baleen rack") inside the mouth of baleen whales. The feeding process starts as the animal opens its mouth to take in water. The whale then pushes the water out through a rack of baleen plates, so as to retain (filter) what will serve as food for the…

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Baleen

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Baleen

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related to Further reading · 26
Baleen → Archived, Aspects, Aubin, Biological Sciences, Canadian Journal, Cheng, Gatesy, Geraci, How, John, Joyce, Mark, Meredith, MMP20, PDF, PMC, PMID, Proceedings, Pseudogenization, Robert
related to Evolution · 15
Baleen → Aetiocetus, Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Antarctica, Dall's, Early Oligocene, Further, Gondwana, However, If, It, Oligocene, The, Therefore, This, Using
related to Human uses · 7
Baleen → Dutch, In, It, Marine Mammal Protection Act, People, Synthetic, United States
related to Mechanical properties · 6
Baleen → Baleen's, Human, MPa, The, This, Whale
related to Etymology · 3
Baleen → Greek, Latin, The
related to Filter feeding · 2
Baleen → It, To
is a · 1
Baleen → mostly mineralized keratin-based bio-material consisting of parallel plates suspended down the mouth of the whale

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whales plates whale also jaw mysticetes feeding mouth used water filter human occurred teeth upper whalebone called evolution uses keratin

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Baleenis amostly mineralized keratin-based bio-material consisting of parallel plates suspended down the mouth of the whale0.90text
Baleenrelated to EtymologyThe0.60section
Baleenrelated to EtymologyLatin0.60section
Baleenrelated to EtymologyGreek0.60section
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Baleenrelated to EvolutionThis0.60section
Baleenrelated to EvolutionDall's0.60section
Baleenrelated to EvolutionEarly Oligocene0.60section
Baleenrelated to EvolutionAntarctica0.60section
Baleenrelated to EvolutionGondwana0.60section
Baleenrelated to EvolutionAntarctic Circumpolar Current0.60section
Baleenrelated to EvolutionIt0.60section

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