Oracle
Whales are fish. Answer true or false.
Answer
false
- fish
- An animal classified as a fish in ordinary zoological usage; whales are mammals (cetaceans), not fish.
- sources
- oceanservice.noaa.gov, britannica, 'whale' (mammal, order cetacea); noaa fisheries: whales are marine mammals, not fish, en.wikipedia.org, encyclopaedia britannica, "cetacean" (britannica.com/animal/cetacean): cetaceans, including whales, are classified as mammals (class mammalia), not fish, as they are warm-blooded, breathe air via lungs, nurse live young with milk, and share a common ancestry with land mammals rather than fish., encyclopaedia britannica, "cetacean" (britannica.com/animal/cetacean): whales are mammals of the order cetacea, characterized by live birth, lactation, lungs requiring surface breathing, and warm-bloodedness, placing them outside the taxonomic group fish., encyclopaedia britannica, "cetacean" (https://www.britannica.com/animal/cetacean) and world wide fund for nature (wwf) species profile on whales, both classifying whales as marine mammals (order cetacea), not fish., encyclopaedia britannica, "whale" (mammal order cetacea): https://www.britannica.com/animal/whale-mammal, encyclopaedia britannica, "whale" (mammal, order cetacea); noaa fisheries, "what is a whale?" (marine mammal, breathes air, warm-blooded, nurses young) — both classify whales as mammals, not fish, encyclopaedia britannica, "whale" (mammalia, order cetacea) and noaa fisheries "are whales fish?" (confirms whales are mammals, not fish), encyclopaedia britannica, "whale" (mammalia.com/britannica.com): whales are classified as cetaceans within the class mammalia, not fish — they are warm-blooded, nurse live young with mammary glands, and breathe air via lungs, unlike fish which are cold-blooded, gill-breathing vertebrates., encyclopaedia britannica, "whale" (mammalia.net/wikipedia.org cetacea): whales are classified in the order cetacea within class mammalia (air-breathing, warm-blooded, nurse live young with milk, have lungs not gills), not in any fish taxon (e.g., class actinopterygii or chondrichthyes). hence whales are mammals, not fish., encyclopaedia britannica, "whale" (mammalia.org/noaa fisheries corroborate): whales are members of the order cetacea within class mammalia — they are warm-blooded, breathe air via lungs, nurse live young with milk, and have hair, none of which are fish traits., encyclopaedia britannica, "whale" entry (britannica.com/animal/whale-mammal): whales are classified as mammals (order cetacea), not fish — they are warm-blooded, breathe air via lungs, nurse live-born young with milk, and lack gills, distinguishing them taxonomically from fish., encyclopaedia britannica, "whale" entry (https://www.britannica.com/animal/whale-mammal), and noaa fisheries, "what is a whale?" (https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/whale), both classifying whales as marine mammals (order cetacea) rather than fish., encyclopaedia britannica, "whale" entry: whales are mammals of the order cetacea, not fish, encyclopaedia britannica, 'cetacea' entry: whales are marine mammals (class mammalia), not fish; they are warm-blooded, breathe air via lungs, nurse live young, and lack gills., encyclopaedia britannica, 'whale' (cetacean mammal, class mammalia): https://www.britannica.com/animal/whale-mammal, encyclopaedia britannica, 'whale' (cetacean, class mammalia, order cetacea): whales are warm-blooded, air-breathing mammals that nurse their young with milk, not fish., encyclopaedia britannica, 'whale' (mammal order cetacea): whales are warm-blooded, air-breathing, live-bearing, milk-producing mammals, not fish, despite their aquatic, fish-like body shape., encyclopaedia britannica, 'whale' (mammalia.org / britannica.com/animal/whale) and noaa fisheries 'what is a whale?' — both state whales are aquatic mammals of the order cetacea, air-breathing and nursing live young, not fish., encyclopaedia britannica, 'whale' entry: whales are aquatic mammals of order cetacea, not fish, integrated taxonomic information system (itis), taxonomic serial number 180427, class mammalia, order cetacea (whales) — https://www.itis.gov/servlet/singlerpt/singlerpt?search_topic=tsn&search_value=180427; corroborated by noaa fisheries (https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/whale) which classifies whales as marine mammals, not fish., itis (integrated taxonomic information system), taxonomic serial number 180583 (cetacea), class mammalia, order cetacea — whales are classified as mammals, not fish (pisces/actinopterygii/chondrichthyes)., itis (integrated taxonomic information system), taxonomic serial number for cetacea classifies whales under mammalia, not under fish classes (chondrichthyes/osteichthyes); consistent with standard zoology references (e.g. world register of marine species, worms), noaa fisheries (fisheries.noaa.gov) and encyclopaedia britannica: whales are classified as mammals (order cetacea) because they are warm-blooded, breathe air with lungs, and nurse live young with milk, unlike fish which are cold-blooded and breathe via gills., noaa fisheries whales page https://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/whales and noaa sanctuaries dolphin background https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/teachers/dolphins/background.html: cetaceans are mammals that breathe air through lungs, unlike fish which breathe through gills., noaa fisheries, "what is the difference between a whale and a fish?" (https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov) and encyclopaedia britannica entry on cetacea, both stating whales are mammals (class mammalia, order cetacea) that breathe air, are warm-blooded, nurse live young, and are not fish, noaa fisheries, 'are whales fish?' (https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/educational-resources/are-whales-fish) and encyclopaedia britannica, 'whale' (classifies cetacea under class mammalia, not pisces), noaa fisheries, 'whales' species overview (fisheries.noaa.gov): whales are marine mammals that breathe air through lungs, nurse their young with milk, and are classified in the order cetacea, not as fish., noaa fisheries, 'what is a whale?' (fisheries.noaa.gov) and encyclopaedia britannica, 'whale' (britannica.com/animal/whale) both state whales are marine mammals (order cetacea), not fish: they are warm-blooded, breathe air via lungs, and nurse live young, unlike fish which are cold-blooded and breathe via gills., noaa fisheries, 'what is a whale?' (fisheries.noaa.gov): whales are marine mammals, not fish — they are warm-blooded, breathe air via lungs, nurse live young, and belong to the order cetacea within class mammalia, noaa fisheries, 'what is a whale?' and encyclopaedia britannica 'whale' (cetacea, mammalia) — both state whales are mammals, not fish, noaa fisheries, fact sheet on whales: https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/33873/noaa_33873_ds1.pdf (states that whales are mammals that live a totally aquatic life)., noaa fisheries, whales, https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/whales; states whales belong to the marine mammal group cetaceans., noaa fisheries, whales: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/whales (identifies whales as marine mammals in the cetacean group), noaa fisheries, whales: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/whales (states that whales belong to a group of marine mammals called cetaceans)., noaa ocean service, are dolphins fish? (whales and porpoises are also mammals), https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/dolphin.html; smithsonian ocean, whales and dolphins, https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/marine-mammals/whales, noaa ocean service, are dolphins fish? https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/dolphin.html (states whales are mammals), noaa, are dolphins fish? https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/dolphin.html; noaa, marine mammal taxonomy https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/outreach-and-education/marine-mammal-taxonomy, noaa, fact sheet on whales: https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/33873/noaa_33873_ds1.pdf, ocean.si.edu, repository.library.noaa.gov, sanctuaries.noaa.gov, wikipedia, 'whale' (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/whale): 'whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.' and wikipedia, 'fish' (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fish): a fish is a gill-bearing vertebrate; modern phylogenetics places whales (mammals, tetrapods) outside fish., www.britannica.com, www.coris.noaa.gov, www.fisheries.noaa.gov, www.noaa.gov, www.worldatlas.com
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#200falsefrom oceanservice.noaa.gov
#52falsefrom en.wikipedia.org
#1566falsefrom www.fisheries.noaa.gov
#978falsefrom www.britannica.com
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