Four species of right and bowhead whales make up this family.

These are call the ‘tanks’ of the whale kingdom.

Individuals can grow up to 20m and weigh as much as 90,000kg.

With a strong and a large body, no dorsal fin or ridge, and with a head that measures at least a third of its total body length, members of this whale family can look terrify!

They are, however, slow animals feeding passively by skim-feeding, support by the longest whale bone with the best baleen sieves of all food. All species were once whaled and, to breed, have been very slow to recover.

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