Do whales have lips?

Question

Lips on their faces?

Answer 1

They do seem to have them!

Answer 2

yes, The head is flat and U-shaped and has a very prominent ridge running from the blowhole to the top of the upper lips. The front part of the mouth is thick with baleen plates; around 300 plates (each one metre long) hang from the upper jaw, running half a metre back into the mouth. Between 60 and 90 grooves (called ventral pleats) run along the throat parallel to the body. These plates assist with evacuating water from the mouth after lunge feeding (see feeding below).

The dorsal fin is small, visible only briefly during the dive sequence. It varies in shape from one individual to another; some only have a barely perceptible lump, but other whales' dorsal fins are quite prominent and falcate. It is located around three-quarters of the way along the length of the body. When surfacing to breathe, the Blue Whale raises its shoulder and blow hole region out of the water to a greater extent than other large whales (such as the Fin or Sei). This can often be a useful clue to identifying a species at sea. When breathing, the whale emits a spectacular vertical single column blow (up to 12 m, typically 9 m) that can be seen from many kilometers on a calm day. Its lung capacity is 5,000 litres. .......also search here in bluewhale.co.in

Answer 3

At the front of the sperm whale's nose and just inside the blowhole there is a valve that looks like a set of lips. In fact, two of the earliest (1897) scientists to dissect a sperm whale's nose thought they looked like the lips on the face of a monkey. These two French scientists coined the term "museau de singe," which can be translated as "monkey's muzzle," to refer to the structures they found in a sperm whale. Some years later, the eminent cetologist Kenneth S. Norris and his colleague, George W. Harvey, proposed that these lips might be used to generate the loud impulsive sounds made by sperm whales. Evidence gathered in recent years supports their suggestion by demonstrating that dolphins make sounds with the same structures (actually a set of structures that probably evolved from the same precursors, i.e. homologoues). Consequently, it seems appropriate to refer to these structures with a label that incorporates this function. The term "phonic lips" serves that purpose.

Answer 4

no... i should know...my life's profession is being an oceanographer..lips are defined as fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth...the lips have to protrude the mouth... LOL phonic lips do make the sound... but he asked on the face...phonic lips are located at the blow hole... so whales DO NOT HAVE LIPS

Answer 5

No. They don't have lips. Dolphins have beaks and bigger whales just have snouts. They can't move their mouths the same way we can move our lips. Therefore they don't have lips.

Answer 6

Yes. Just look at Roseanne Barr.

Answer 7

i think yes...

Answer 8

no

Answer 9

NO

Answer 10

idk about that but they have hips