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• Who established this holiday and in what year?
• The narwhal has only two upper teeth. Which of these most often develops a tusk, reaching a length of up to 2–3 m and a weight of up to 10 kg?
• Which whale is the largest animal on planet Earth today?
• How big can the largest whale on our planet reach?
• Which whale is the second largest animal on Earth today?
• How often does the characteristic fountain of water appear in surfaced sperm whales?
• How is the caudal fin positioned in cetaceans?
• Dolphins are very intelligent animals. Their brain is much larger than the human brain in terms of the number of gyrations in the cerebral cortex. And how many times that?
• Which traits can be used to reliably identify southern right whales?
• Which species of dolphin becomes completely white as an adult?
• What do bowhead whales living in the polar regions of the Northern Hemisphere feed on?
• The songs of whales are mesmerizingly beautiful. And what organs do whales use to make these sounds?
• What is the name of a substance that used to be extracted from the digestive tract of sperm whales?
• Which characteristic gave the beluga whale its Latin genus name, Delphinapterus ("wingless dolphin")?
• Which modern animal is the only true predator among cetaceans that preys on warm-blooded animals?
• In what range are cetaceans capable of picking up sound waves?
• Which whale was first identified as "baleine de la Nouvelle Angleterre" in the 1756 work Le Règne animal by Maturin Jacques Brisson?
• Which modern whale holds the record for depth and duration of dives?
• Which of the following dolphins lives in fresh water?
• What do cetaceans feed their newborn calves?