• Question: is whale a mammal or a fish

    Asked by Nick bright twitchstar to Caroline, Derrick, Mark, Marta, Sammy on 10 Jul 2017.
    • Photo: Mark Otiende

      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.

    • Photo: Caroline Ogwang

      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

    • Photo: Sammy Wambua

      Sammy Wambua answered on 11 Jul 2017:


      Hi Nick,

      Whale is a mammal!

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