- The
toothed whales (also
called odontocetes,
systematic name Odontoceti) are a
parvorder of
cetaceans that
includes dolphins, porpoises, and all other...
-
Cetotheriidae (the
pygmy right whale), and
Eschrichtiidae (the grey whale).
Odontocetes include the
Monodontidae (belugas and narwhals),
Physeteridae (the sperm...
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Early mysticetes (baleen whales) and
odontocetes appeared in the
middle Oligocene in New Zealand.
Extant odontocetes are
monophyletic (a
single evolutionary...
- New Zealand.
Although at
times classified as
basal mysticetes or
basal odontocetes,
recent cladistic analyses demonstrate that
kekenodontids are phylogenetically...
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Porpoises feed
largely on fish and squid, much like the rest of the
odontocetes.
Little is
known about reproductive behaviour.
Females may have one calf...
-
listening to a
school of
odontocetes is like
listening to a
group of
children at a
school playground. The
multiple sounds odontocetes make are
produced by...
- can
range from 32 to 100 kHz. This is
similar to the
range of
other odontocetes such as the
bottlenose dolphin but is
slightly higher than
false killer...
-
hunts prey by echolocation.
Sound produced for
echolocation by many
odontocetes come in the form of high-frequency clicks. The
frequencies it uses are...
- for
several months,
relying on
their fat reserves. The
parvorder of
Odontocetes – the
toothed whales –
include sperm whales,
beaked whales, orcas, dolphins...
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Neoceti (neocetes).
Neocetes consist of two subgroups, the
toothed whales (
odontocetes) and the
baleen whales (mysticetes).
First identified as
cetaceans by...
