Whale Chart

Baleen
	Blue	Fin	Bryde's	Sei	Minke
length (feet)	90 ave.	70	45	60	25
weight (tons)	180	50	13	17	8
color	mottled blue- gray underside is lighter	back: brownish black underside: white	dark gray		back: black to dark gray underside: white
flippers	small	small	slender and pointed	short	long and slim
flukes	slightly notched twenty feet across	broad 1/4 length of body			notched 1/4 length of body
dorsal fin	tiny	hooked 2 feet tall	hooked ragged edge	hooked small	hooked tall
spout	height:30 feet shape: cone	height:20 feet shape: cone	height:13feet	height:10 feet shape: cone	low shape: like plume
pleats	60-90	80	40-50	60	70
plates	800	700	740	760	720

Baleen
	Humpback	Gray	Bowhead
length (feet)	50	50	55
weight (tons)	45	45	110
color	back: black/gray underside: white	mottled gray underside is lighter	dark gray
flippers	scalloped shaped long	long	6 feet long
flukes	Butterfly shaped broad deeply notched	12 feet across	notched
dorsal fin	hooked	none	none
spout	height:10 feet shape: upside down pear	height:10-15 feet shape: geyser like	height: 23 feet shape: V like
pleats		2-4	none
plates	800	360	700

Toothed
	Orca	Norwhal	Beluga	Sperm
length (feet)	30	15	18	60
weight (tons)	8	1.8	1	60
color	black with white		white
flippers	paddle shaped broad	short	paddle shaped broad and short	short and stubby
flukes	notched	deeply notched	notched broad	deeply notched broad - 16 feet across
dorsal fin	hooked 6 feet (m)	none	none	none
spout		height : low indistinct		height: 16 feet shape:bushy
teeth	48	2		bottom jaw: 50 upper jaw: toothless