whale 52 bts | whale in mauritius

whale 52 bts | whale in mauritius Whale Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully marine placental marine mammals. They may be an informal grouping within the infraorder Cetacea, usually excluding dolphins and porpoises. Whales, dolphins and porpoises belong to the order Cetartiodactyla with even-toed ungulates and their closest living relatives are the hippopotamuses, having diverged about 40 million years ago. The two parvorders of whales, baleen whales (Mysticeti) and toothed whales (Odontoceti), are thought to have split away from each other around 34 million in years past. The whales comprise 8 extant families: Balaenopteridae (the rorquals), Balaenidae (right whales), Cetotheriidae (the pygmy correct whale), Eschrichtiidae (the dull whale), Monodontidae (belugas and narwhals), Physeteridae (the ejaculation whale), Kogiidae (the dwarf and pygmy sperm whale), and Ziphiidae (the beaked whales). Wh...