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Asked by Nick bright twitchstar to Caroline, Derrick, Mark, Marta, Sammy on 10 Jul 2017.
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Mark Otiende answered on 10 Jul 2017:
A whale is a mammal. Here is something I got from the internet:
Just like land mammals whales possess a number of characteristics that are necessities among the many different mammalian species.
Some of these factors include:
*Breathing air
*Producing milk
*Being warm-blooded
*Giving birth – they carry their young internally and provide their child with nutrients through an umbilical cord until the child is born. Most non mammalian species lay eggs rather than giving birth.
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Caroline Ogwang answered on 10 Jul 2017:
Hi Nick,
Whales are mammals and not fish because :
• they are warm-blooded (they can make their own body heat even when it is cold outside.)
• they give birth to live young
• they have fur
• they have lungs and breath air
• the secretion of milk by females for the nourishment of the young -
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