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Narwhales are the awsomest thing alive do you agree? heres some facts:bet you didnt know these..link title                                     The Narwhal Whale The Whale With a “Horn” By: `Ember Hirsch The narwhal  is  a  large  whale  with  a  overgrown  tooth. The tooth  is  often  called  a  unicorn  horn for  that’s  what  it  was  thought  to  be  in  Middle Ages. The narwhal  is  one  of  the  most  interesting mammals  alive.

In medieval  times  the  narwhal  was  considered  to  be  a  unicorn, but  an  unicorn  was  really   half horse  half  goat. In tapestries  the  animal  had  a  goat  face  and  horse  body. When the  narwhal  was  found,  his  tooth  was  sold  as  a  unicorns  horn. Their kingdom  is  animalia,  their  phylum  is  chordata,  their  subphylum  is  errata,  and  their  class  is  mammalia. Their order  is  cetacea,  their suborder  is  odontoceti,  their  family  is  monodontae. The have  a  genus  of  monodon,  and  lastly  their  species  is  monodon  monoceros. They live  up  to  fifty years. There are  10,000 - 45,000  left,  they  were taken off  the endangered  list  in  1997.

This mammal  has  an  amazing  size  and  an   amazing  tooth. The male  is  16 ft. not counting  his tooth  and  is  one  through  eight  tons. The tooth  can  grow  up  to  ten  feet  long ! The female  can grow  up  to  13 ft. she doesn’t  have  a  tusk  and  can  weigh  up  to  one  ton. They both  have  small eyes  and  are  bluish  gray  with  white  spots. Their groups  range  from  four  through  forty-two narwhals. They can  stay  underwater  from  seven  to  twenty  minutes. Their left  tooth  grows  out spirally   counter  clockwise,  you  rarely  see  the  right  tooth  grow,  out  much  less  both. The tooth  is   hollow  and  flexible,  they  do  not  use  it  to  hunt. They use  it  to  clean  other  tusks, measure  the temperature,  and  when  the  icebergs  change.

Narwhales live  in  the  Hudson  bay,  and  the  east  cost  of  Greenland. They enjoy  ice  packed  oceans,  bays  and,  fjords. They  always  live  close  to  ice  around  the arctic. They are  rarely  found  south  of  70  degrees  south. ￼￼

A narwhal,  like  all  mammals,  have  babies. A mother  can  be  pregnant  10-16  months. She will

nurse four months  after  birth. The babies are brown with no dorsal fin and have very thick blubber. To

get a  females  attention  the  males  will  joust  for  her  with their  tusks. The winner  gets  the  female.

The narwhals  diet,  enemies,  and  hunting  are  unclouded. The narwhal  eats  fish,  squid, and other  marine  animals. To hunt  they  use  echolocation  like  bats,  whales,  shrews,  flying squirrels,  and dolphins. They’re prey  to  sharks,  killer  whales,  and  polar  bears.

The narwhale is the most eye-catching mammal of all with its tooth. From its unicorn time, to its current marine mammal classification he has been amazing. The narwhal is one of the most interesting mammals alive.

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