Question

Why do whales belong to group mammals?

Answer 1

Whales are mammals because they give birth to live young, they have fur (although it is very sparse on their body), they have lungs and breath air and they provide milk for their young. Answer 3: You have a lot of interesting questions about marine mammals. Dolphins and other whales are all mammals called cetaceans.

Answer 2

Mammals warm-blooded animals breathe air through the lungs, they bear live young and feed them, they have mammary glands and regulate their own body temperature and heat. Similar characteristics are observed in whales.

• Mammals are not just land creatures they can be aquatic too.

• Even though whales and dolphins are aquatic they are still aquatic mammals, they are more closely related to humans than they are to fish.

• Collectively, whales, dolphins and porpoises are marine mammals that belong to the Cetacea class of mammals

• Cetaceans breathe in oxygen.

• Cetaceans are warm-blooded animals.

• Cetacean offspring are born live and are cared for.

• Cetaceans have vestigial hair on their bodies.

• Cetacean skeletons are built of bones.

• Cetaceans swim differently than fish.