14 Facts About Fin whale

Fin whale, known as finback whale or common rorqual and formerly known as herring whale or razorback whale, is a cetacean belonging to the parvorder of baleen whales.

Fin whale's body is long and slender, coloured brownish-grey with a paler underside.

Fin whale was first described by Friderich Martens in 1675 and by Paul Dudley in 1725.

Fin whale is brownish to dark or light gray dorsally and white ventrally.

Oral cavity of the fin whale has a very stretchy or extensible nerve system which aids them in feeding.

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When fin whale sounds were first recorded by US biologists, they did not realize that these unusually loud, long, pure and regular sounds were being made by whales.

North Atlantic fin whale has an extensive distribution, occurring from the Gulf of Mexico and Mediterranean Sea, northward to Baffin Bay and Spitsbergen.

Acoustic readings from passive-listening hydrophone arrays indicate a southward migration of the North Atlantic fin whale occurs in the autumn from the Labrador-Newfoundland region, south past Bermuda, and into the West Indies.

Only known predator of the fin whale is the killer whale, with at least 20 eyewitness and second-hand accounts of attack or harassment.

The whale bore numerous tooth rakes over its back and dorsal fin; several killer whales flanked it on either side, with one individual visible under water biting at its right lower jaw.

Fin whale is a filter-feeder, feeding on small schooling fish, squid and crustaceans including copepods and krill.

The fin whale was given full protection from commercial whaling by the IWC in the North Pacific in 1976, and in the North Atlantic in 1987, with small exceptions for aboriginal catches and catches for research purposes.

The Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest, Hungary, displays a fin whale skeleton hanging near its main entrance which had been caught in the Atlantic Ocean in 1896 and purchased from Vienna in 1900.

Fin whale is listed on both Appendix I and Appendix II of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals .