North Atlantic Right Whales
The Eubalaena glacialis
By Victoria Wu
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An Endangered Species
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Habitats
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Physical Adaptations
North Atlantic Right Whales have baleen plates, which filter to strain and separate food from a mouthful of water. To make sure this helpful doesn't stop, we just kept water and food, so they could keep on using this adaptation and we wouldn't interfere with it. These Right Whales also have lots of blubber, which helps keep the whales insulated, while giving the whales a streamline shape and stores energy for the whale. To keep this blubber in use, we put in a lot of prey, so they could keep on storing energy, stay insulated, and keep the streamline shape they need.
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Behavioral Adaptations
North Atlantic Right Whales are skimmers; using their baleen plates, they feed by removing prey from the water while moving with their mouth open. This keeps the water they don't need out, but gives them the food they need. To keep this adaptation, we just kept the water in kept the prey in, so they could keep the adaptation without us interfering with it. The whales also migrate. The whales migrate between feeding grounds in the Gulf of Maine And their winter calving areas in Georgia and Florida. To make sure it felt like they were still in the wild while being in the zoo, we made sure that we made the temperature the same for the places they migrate to. This helps keep the babies alive and make them feel like they're in the wild.