Statistics for Marine Mammals Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Odontocetes have	Teeth	90%
While mysticetes have	Baleen	74%
The number of blowholes an odontocete has is	One	65%
The number of blowholes a mysticete has is	Two	62%
The largest species of dolphin is the	Orca	61%
A narwhals' 'horn' is actually its	Tusk	61%
Sea-lions have these but seals don't	Ears	57%
The species with the largest flippers is the	Humpback whale	57%
The species with the largest brain is the	Cachalot	54%
You can tell a manatee and a dugong apart from the shapes of their	Tails	54%
This seal is the world's largest carnivore	Southern Elephant Seal	48%
The 'white whale' that had a plane named after it is the	Beluga	46%
The fastest great whale species is the	Fin whale	39%
This species is known for mass stranding	Pilot whale	32%
The longest lived whale species is the	Bowhead whale	29%
You can tell dolphins and porpoises apart from the shape of their	Teeth	25%
This species' name comes from the Norwegian word for Pollock	Sei whale	22%
A whale with an expandable throat is called a	Rorqual	14%
This "King Lizard" is the largest known ocean animal of the Eocene	Basilosaurus	13%
The southernmost native mammal species in the world is the	Weddell seal	13%
This species has the shortest nursing period of any mammal (4 days)	Hooded seal	9%