Whale Reports
Students in Mrs. Burns second grade class wrote reports about a whale.

Bottlenose Dolphin
By Maverick
Bottlenose Dolphins are cool toothed animals. Their size is 12 feet long and their weight is over 1,400 pounds. Their color is gray on top and white on the bottom. They are found in coastal areas from southern Florida to northern Cape Hatteras. They are fast swimmers. They come up to the surface every two minutes. They eat fish and squid. Their enemies are orcas, tiger sharks, dusky sharks, and fish nets. They can dive and jump out of water to 20 feet. They do bow riding. Thats why the Bottlenose Dolphins are cool.

Minke Whale
By Jordan
The Minke whale has baleen. Thats why its cool to learn about the Minke Whale. It eats cod, plankton, krill, small fish, herring, sardines, capelin and anchovies. The color is dark gray with a white belly. It is found on the surface of the ocean. The speed is 18-21 miles per hour. It weighs 6 to7.5 tons. Its length is 35 feet. Finally it has 2 blowholes. It dives 20-25 minutes under the water. They also are very loud. Thats why its cool to learn about the Minke whale.

Dalls Porpoise
By Daniel
The Dalls Porpoise is an awesome toothed porpoise. It is 5.75 to 7.25 feet long. It weighs 270 pounds. It eats fish, squid and crustaceans. Its black and white. It swims fast. Its enemy is the Japanese fishermans fishing nets. Some interesting facts are that it has spade shape teeth and a rounded head. Thats why the Dalls porpoise is awesome.

Spotted Dolphin
By Becky
The spotted Dolphin is an interesting toothed mammal! Its weight is 255 pounds. It is pale gray. It is found in Atlantic seas. It has sharp teeth. It does high jumps. It eats fish and squid. Its enemies are sharks. His tricky body moves are lob tailing and high jumps in the air. That is why it is interesting.

Spotted Dolphin
By Isabella
I think the spotted dolphin is a neat toothed animal to learn about. The spotted dolphin weighs 200 to 250 pounds. Its length is about eight feet. It has white spots. It eats fish, squid, and crustaceans. Its enemies are the bull shark and the tiger shark. It does high jumps and forward flips. It is in danger because it gets caught in nets. It lives in groups called pods. It moves its flukes up and down. It has sharp teeth. Thats why I think the spotted dolphin is a neat thing to learn about.

Blue Whale
By Jeff
The blue whale is an incredible baleen animal. The blue whales length is up to 115 feet. The blue whale is the loudest animal. It can stay under the water for an hour. Its predators are man and the orca whale. It eats krill, small fish, copepods, and plankton. It swims 24 to 30 miles per hour. Its color is usually blue gray with white spots and its belly is yellow. Its found in all oceans of the world. Thats why its incredible.

Humpback Whale
By Faith
A humpback whale has baleen instead of teeth. These mammals are truly amazing! Humpback whales are about 52 feet long. They can weigh from 30-50 tons. Humpback whales are found in the North Pacific Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, and Southern Hemisphere. A humpback whale eats plankton, and small fish. Humpback whales swim 3-9 mph. They live 45-50 years. They sing amazing songs. They turn around breaching. They are gray. Humpbacks are amazing.

Bottlenose Dolphin
By Jon W.
The bottlenose dolphin is a cool toothed dolphin. It is very fast. It eats squid and fish. It is 12 feet long. Its color is gray on the top and white on the bottom. It weighs 1,400 pounds. It can live until its 25 years old. It can stay under water for two minutes. Its enemies are orcas, tiger sharks, and dusky sharks. It is a bow-rider. That is why it is cool.

Sperm Whale
By Chris
A sperm whale is a very interesting toothed whale. The calves can gain 45 pounds a day. The adults can swim 27 mph. They eat squid, octopus, fish, and sharks. They are light gray. They can be found in all oceans. They can be 60 feet long and weigh 50 tons. They can dive 10,500 feet deep. They can go logging and lob-tailing. The blow can be 50 feet high, maybe that's why its noisy. Thats why the sperm whale is interesting.

The Fin whale
By Elizabeth
The Fin whale is an interesting baleen whale! The females are slightly larger than the male. Sometimes they call them greyhounds. Their size is 59 to 79 feet. They weigh about 30 to 80 tons. Their speed is 23 mph. Their color is black on the left and white on the right. They are found worldwide. They eat plankton, pteropods, small fish and copepods. That is why it is very interesting to me!

Minke Whale
By Lexi
The minke whales have baleen. It eats schools of anchovies and sardines. The minke whale is 25-30 feet long. Their weight is 6-7.5 tons. Their color is dark gray and light on the bottom. It is found near the surface. Its speed is 3-16 miles per hour. Some interesting facts are they are very loud and they have two blowholes. The Minke whale is a very interesting baleen whale.

Orca Whale
By Abbie
The Orca whale is a neat toothed whale. It can dive, spy-hop, slap, and, breach. They live with dolphins. Their length is 27-33 feet long and their weight is 8,000-12,000 pounds. They have only one blowhole. Their speed is 30 miles per hour. Their enemies are only humans. They eat fish, sharks, and squid. Thats why the orca is so neat.

Humpback Whale
By Catherine
The humpback whale is an amazing baleen whale! They weigh 30-50 tons. Their length is about 52 feet. They can be white to gray to black to mottled. They mate in tropical waters and they go to polar waters in the summer. They can swim 3-9 mph. They eat sand eel, capelin, herring, krill and plankton. Other interesting facts are they breach, spyhop, and lobtail. They sing, but they are endangered. That is why theyre so amazing.

Narwhal
By Will
The narwhal is cool. It is a toothed whale. It has many enemies like the orcas, sharks and walruses. It eats fish, squid and shrimp. Its weight is 1.8 tons. It is 16 feet long. It lives in Arctic seas. An adult is spotted with blue and gray. It has a tooth that is 7-10 feet long. Only the boys have them. Thats why the narwal is cool.

Beluga Whales
By Alyya
The beluga whale is an amazing whale. The beluga whales are toothed whales. Their size is 15 feet long. Their weight is 3,300 pounds. Their length is 4-6 feet long. They only have one blowhole. They have 34 teeth in all. They have a small blunt head. They have a small beak, and tiny eyes. They have a small stout body. Its cool trick is diving. Their enemies are killer whales and polar bears. They eat fish, squid, crustaceans, octopi, and worms. Their speed is slow. Their color is white. Theyre found in the snowy Arctic ocean. Thats why I like beluga whales.

Beluga Whale
By Claire
The Beluga is a really cute toothed whale. It weighs 3,300 pounds and is 15 feet long. It eats crustaceans, octopi, worms, squid, and fish. It is white as an adult. It is found in Arctic waters in the winter and warm, shallow waters in the summer. It has 34 teeth. It can dive for from 3-15 minutes. Its spout is 3 feet high. Its enemies are the killer whale and the polar bear. Thats why I think belugas are cute. Dont you?

The Killer Whale
By John B.
The killer whale is a cool toothed whale. Its length is 8-10 feet. Its weight is more than 8,000-12,000 pounds. Its color is black and white. It is found in the Arctic and in Tropical waters. It has 42 to 50 teeth. It eats fish. Its enemies are human beings. It is very fast. Its body movements are tail slaps, breaching, diving, and spyhopping. Thats why the killer whale is cool.

Sperm Whale
By Cristina
The sperm whale is cool to learn about. The sperm whale is a toothed whale. That means it has teeth not the little strings called baleen. The sperm whale eats skate, giant squid, and fish. Whale hunters are the enemies of sperm whales. They hunt whales for their meat. The length is 20 feet long. The sperm whale is the largest toothed whale. The sperm whale lives at the surface of the oceans. They can stick their tail up and spin it around and slap it on the surface. Thats why the sperm whale is cool to learn about.

Fin Whale
By Tyler
The fin whale is cool baleen whale. The fin whales weight is 30-80 tons. Is length 59-72 feet long. It is found worldwide except polar waters. Its color is black and gray. It has 350-400 baleen plates. It swims in pods. Its speed is fast. It eats krill and plankton. I like fin whales because they are cool.

Sei Whale
By Dwight
The Sei whale is a very cool baleen whale. It eats plankton, krill, copepods and small fish, too. It is 39 to 52 feet long and it weighs 1,600 pounds. Its speed is 23 mph. Its color is dark gray on top and white on the bottom. It is found in polar waters. That is why I like the Sei whale and think it is cool.

Narwhal
By Gillian
The narwhal is a cool toothed animal. The narwhals body weighs 1.8 tons. Its length is 16 feet. The narwhals colors are bluish-grayish with white blotches. The young narwhals color is brown. The narwhals diet is fish, squid, and shrimp. The narwhals enemies are sharks, polar bears, orcas, walrus, Inuit hunters, and other men. The narwhal can make a clicking sound and squealing sound. Narwhals can dive for 7 to 20 minutes. The narwhal is found in icy waters in the Arctic seas. Thats why the narwhal is cool.

Bowhead Whale
By John T.
Bowheads are cool and amazing. Bowheads have baleen. They live in the Arctic. The young bowheads speed is 2-7 mph. The grown ups go 10-12 Mph. They eat krill and plankton. They can dive to the depth of 500 feet. It can hold its breath for an hour long. It has vocalization to find a big amount of food and to talk to other whales. That is why bowheads are cool!

Sei Whale
By Sierra
Did you know that the Sei whale is also called the Sardine whale? The Sei whale eats plankton, krill, crustaceans, and small fish. It weighs 2O to 3O tons. Its 39 to 52 feet long. The Sei whale is very cool!

Blue Whale
By Austin
The blue whale is cool because it is a baleen whale. The blue whales weight is 120 tons. Its length is 80 feet. Blue whales live in a group. When blue whales feed they swim slow. It can dive about 350 feet. A blue whale is very loud. Its color is blue-gray with white-gray spots. It eats tiny crustaceans, krill and copepods. Its enemies are killer whales and man. This whale lives at the surface. It lives in all the oceans. This whale is a fast whale. That`s why the blue whale is cool.