WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:13.400 Hi. 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:14.980 Welcome to the ocean classroom. 00:00:14.980 --> 00:00:18.260 My name is Patty Miller and today we're not coming from the ocean. 00:00:18.260 --> 00:00:21.640 We're actually coming to you live from my corner of my living room. 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:24.620 We are practicing social distancing as I know all of you are. 00:00:24.660 --> 00:00:28.800 But today we're going to present to you our first program, 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:31.040 called Humpback Whales 101. 00:00:31.040 --> 00:00:34.260 We are doing these in conjunction with the Waikiki Aquarium. 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:36.500 I want to make the statement right now 00:00:36.500 --> 00:00:38.800 that these are live today, 00:00:38.800 --> 00:00:42.320 but they will be archived on the Waikiki Aquarium website. 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:45.280 Where you'll be able to access them later on. 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:48.160 During these five different programs that we're doing. 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:51.480 Some of it will be demonstrations here, 00:00:51.480 --> 00:00:53.440 in the art classroom studio here. 00:00:53.440 --> 00:00:55.280 That you can do with your kids, 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:58.040 activities, experiments they can do to help 00:00:58.040 --> 00:00:59.200 explain things about the ocean. 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:02.020 But also there'll be some little short video clips 00:01:02.020 --> 00:01:03.920 or some powerpoint programs 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:05.690 that I will be presenting that you 00:01:05.690 --> 00:01:07.200 can also share with your kids 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.740 to help get some of the basic science concepts across. 00:01:10.740 --> 00:01:14.080 Today we're going to start with one about humpback whales. 00:01:14.080 --> 00:01:17.520 It's some very basic information I think you'll enjoy it. 00:01:17.520 --> 00:01:19.120 So let's take a few minutes 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:21.920 and let's take a look at Humpback Whales 101. 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:24.540 And then we'll be back to do some activities. 00:01:26.240 --> 00:01:26.760 We are the 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:29.860 Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary 00:01:29.860 --> 00:01:34.640 and we were first dedicated to protect the whales through 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:38.475 conservation, research, and education. 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.440 So speaking of education, 00:01:40.440 --> 00:01:42.800 let's get some good basic information 00:01:42.800 --> 00:01:44.980 about the humpback whales here. 00:01:44.980 --> 00:01:47.440 Why a re they called humpbacks? 00:01:47.440 --> 00:01:50.620 They actually don't have a real hump on their back 00:01:50.620 --> 00:01:54.000 They have kind of an insignificant dorsal fin but the 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:57.360 hump comes when they dive down under water. 00:01:57.360 --> 00:02:00.479 So when you see them surface to take a breath of air, 00:02:00.479 --> 00:02:03.600 you'll see them come up and then you'll see the head go down 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:06.800 and the back humps up as they go underwater 00:02:06.800 --> 00:02:11.760 and that's how they got their name of the humpbacks. 00:02:11.760 --> 00:02:15.300 How big is a humpback whale? 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:18.220 They're about 40 to 50 tons. 00:02:18.220 --> 00:02:20.480 They're about 40 to 50 feet long. 00:02:20.480 --> 00:02:23.040 Usually the females are bigger than the males. 00:02:23.040 --> 00:02:24.940 They're the ones that are carrying the babies, 00:02:24.940 --> 00:02:26.100 and feeding the babies. 00:02:26.100 --> 00:02:29.340 I love this picture of us as a human being 00:02:29.340 --> 00:02:30.600 compared to the whale. 00:02:30.600 --> 00:02:32.984 Imagine if that tail came up and flipped, 00:02:32.984 --> 00:02:36.240 and flipped that person up in the air, they'd go flying. 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:39.300 So really big difference in size here. 00:02:40.440 --> 00:02:42.000 Humpback whale for kids 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:43.500 the thing for them to remember is that 00:02:43.500 --> 00:02:48.560 they're about the size of one of your large school buses. 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:52.160 Are whales a kind of fish? 00:02:52.160 --> 00:02:56.340 No, whales are not fish, they're in the mammal family. 00:02:56.340 --> 00:02:57.640 They're mammals just like us. 00:02:57.640 --> 00:03:00.860 So think about the things that make us be a mammal. 00:03:00.860 --> 00:03:05.300 Number one, we are warm-blooded. 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:09.500 We have hair, whisker-like hair. 00:03:09.500 --> 00:03:10.740 We breathe air. 00:03:10.740 --> 00:03:13.600 So the whales have to come to the surface and breathe air, 00:03:13.600 --> 00:03:16.640 where a fish has gills and they can breathe underwater. 00:03:16.640 --> 00:03:20.300 But that whale's got to come to the surface. 00:03:20.380 --> 00:03:24.140 They are born alive, not laying eggs, 00:03:24.140 --> 00:03:28.860 and the moms nurse the babies and feed the babies at first. 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:31.800 So funny question here though, 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:33.540 is that humpback whales have hair. 00:03:33.540 --> 00:03:35.240 I don't think you've ever seen the hair. 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:36.500 Of course we don't get up real close 00:03:36.500 --> 00:03:38.060 to the whales to see it, 00:03:38.060 --> 00:03:39.360 but the hair is located, 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:41.380 see those bumps on the head of the whale, 00:03:41.380 --> 00:03:42.840 they are called tubercles. 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:44.520 I kind of call them warts 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:46.320 but they're like big bumps found 00:03:46.320 --> 00:03:47.720 on the head of the whale. 00:03:47.720 --> 00:03:49.800 And they have a little hair that sticks out 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:50.960 in the middle of that tubercle 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:53.800 and that's where you find the hair on a whale. 00:03:53.860 --> 00:03:56.280 They're not sure what these hairs do, 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:58.380 they think it might be to sense things. 00:03:58.380 --> 00:03:59.520 They don't know 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:03.060 but that is where the hair is found on a humpback whale. 00:04:06.480 --> 00:04:07.820 They breathe air. 00:04:07.820 --> 00:04:10.720 They have two blow holes. 00:04:10.720 --> 00:04:15.860 That a toothed dolphin has one blowhole, 00:04:15.860 --> 00:04:20.080 where the humpbacks, which are baleen whales, have two. 00:04:20.080 --> 00:04:23.140 They are open when they are taking a breath 00:04:23.140 --> 00:04:24.580 or they're blowing the air out 00:04:24.580 --> 00:04:26.480 and when they go down underwater 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:29.020 they are able to close those nostrils. 00:04:29.020 --> 00:04:32.280 Now think about your own nostrils, 00:04:32.280 --> 00:04:33.160 your nose. 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:36.560 Can you close them without touching them? 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:39.580 I've got to have a special muscle here that makes that work. 00:04:39.580 --> 00:04:40.800 So try it kids. 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:46.740 The humpback whales get milk from the mom. 00:04:46.740 --> 00:04:50.080 They nurse for about the first year of their life. 00:04:50.080 --> 00:04:52.580 They drink about a hundred gallons of milk a day. 00:04:52.580 --> 00:04:54.420 This is a great picture kind of shows you 00:04:54.420 --> 00:04:56.640 the size of the baby when it's first born. 00:04:56.640 --> 00:05:00.100 The babies are about 15 feet long when they're first born. 00:05:00.140 --> 00:05:02.140 But as compared to the mom, 00:05:02.140 --> 00:05:03.700 what that size is. 00:05:03.700 --> 00:05:05.480 So great image here. 00:05:06.960 --> 00:05:09.760 And when they go back and look at how 00:05:09.760 --> 00:05:14.000 whales have evolved from the beginning of time, 00:05:14.060 --> 00:05:17.440 one of the theories is that the closest living relative 00:05:17.440 --> 00:05:22.760 of the humpback whale is the hippopotamus. 00:05:22.760 --> 00:05:23.620 Kind of funny. 00:05:24.880 --> 00:05:27.261 How do you spot a whale out in the ocean? 00:05:27.280 --> 00:05:29.640 You guys can go down you can stand along the beach, 00:05:29.640 --> 00:05:30.560 you can be out on the boat. 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:33.400 And how are you going to first see that whale? 00:05:34.540 --> 00:05:36.260 Well, there's three Bs. 00:05:36.260 --> 00:05:42.240 The blow, the body parts, and the breech. 00:05:43.840 --> 00:05:46.340 The blow is probably the first thing 00:05:46.340 --> 00:05:48.260 you're going to see from shore. 00:05:48.260 --> 00:05:51.640 They think the air comes out of the whale, 00:05:51.640 --> 00:05:52.880 when the whale comes to the surface, 00:05:52.880 --> 00:05:55.000 it is exhaling all of this air. 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:55.960 It's coming out at about 00:05:55.960 --> 00:06:00.300 has been measured at about 300 miles an hour. 00:06:00.320 --> 00:06:03.540 As it comes out, whale researchers if they can 00:06:03.540 --> 00:06:04.540 try to connect 00:06:04.540 --> 00:06:08.120 try to collect it they call it whale snot. 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:12.100 They use what a drone which is called a "Snot Bot" 00:06:12.100 --> 00:06:14.140 to learn about their humpback whales. 00:06:14.140 --> 00:06:17.640 And from that snot that they collect 00:06:17.640 --> 00:06:19.760 they're able to get into the DNA. 00:06:19.760 --> 00:06:23.700 They'll be able to learn some things about the whales. 00:06:23.740 --> 00:06:24.520 Anyway. 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:27.500 We can talk about the body parts. 00:06:27.500 --> 00:06:30.080 You're going to see the pectoral fin, 00:06:30.080 --> 00:06:33.100 which is about 15 feet long. 00:06:33.100 --> 00:06:35.740 And that fin comes out of the water 00:06:35.740 --> 00:06:38.560 it's like the arm and to me it's slapping the water 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:40.220 pounding it back and forth. 00:06:40.220 --> 00:06:43.760 I've counted 15-20 times that it pounds the water. 00:06:43.760 --> 00:06:45.260 It's either just exercising, 00:06:45.260 --> 00:06:46.320 it feels good, 00:06:46.320 --> 00:06:50.660 it's knocking off barnacles they brought from Alaska. 00:06:50.660 --> 00:06:52.280 Do not know why 00:06:52.280 --> 00:06:56.300 but it is one activities that you might easily see. 00:06:56.380 --> 00:06:59.900 The tail flukes will come up out of the water, 00:06:59.900 --> 00:07:01.160 you'll see these come out 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:03.700 again they're about 15 feet across. 00:07:03.700 --> 00:07:04.960 And that tail fluke, 00:07:04.960 --> 00:07:06.940 they can also pound those up and down 00:07:06.940 --> 00:07:07.520 and up and down 00:07:07.520 --> 00:07:08.260 and up and down. 00:07:08.260 --> 00:07:10.740 And you can count again how many times they do it. 00:07:10.740 --> 00:07:14.500 Not sure again, why they are doing that. 00:07:14.580 --> 00:07:16.380 If you're lucky you might see a 00:07:16.380 --> 00:07:19.180 the head come up and see a spy hop. 00:07:19.180 --> 00:07:22.220 The whale comes up kind of turns around in circles 00:07:22.220 --> 00:07:26.900 and it's like they're looking to see what's out there. 00:07:26.960 --> 00:07:28.940 Or you might be able to see 00:07:28.940 --> 00:07:32.560 this activity of these males fighting. 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:35.040 Now the whale that's in the front is a female. 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:37.960 The two in the back are two males 00:07:37.960 --> 00:07:41.820 and they're actually fighting over that female. 00:07:41.820 --> 00:07:43.800 Wanted to be their girlfriend. 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:45.480 So the two whales will run, 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:48.360 they'll come to the surface they will pound upon each other, 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:52.440 realize they are the weight that they are. 00:07:52.440 --> 00:07:54.620 They're gonna pound on each other. 00:07:54.620 --> 00:07:55.120 They're gonna 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:57.600 the survival will be the one that 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:59.860 that's not going to kill each other to get there 00:07:59.860 --> 00:08:02.620 but one of them finally gives up and swims off. 00:08:02.620 --> 00:08:04.180 And that next whale then 00:08:04.180 --> 00:08:06.280 may have a chance at that girlfriend 00:08:06.280 --> 00:08:08.540 but very kind of violent behavior. 00:08:08.540 --> 00:08:11.640 If you're out on a boat or on the beach 00:08:11.640 --> 00:08:12.880 you might be able to see this. 00:08:12.880 --> 00:08:14.220 And what you see though, 00:08:14.220 --> 00:08:17.560 from a distance is just a lot of water splashing, 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:19.120 a lot of activity. 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:21.260 And it's big enough it splashes in 00:08:21.260 --> 00:08:24.420 that you can see this actually from shore. 00:08:25.200 --> 00:08:27.780 And then, if you're really lucky you see the breach 00:08:27.780 --> 00:08:30.160 where the whale comes all the way out of the water. 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.300 So this whale is lifting itself up. 00:08:33.300 --> 00:08:35.020 It is not using its pec fins, 00:08:35.020 --> 00:08:37.360 it is using its peduncle muscle 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:38.800 which is back by the tail. 00:08:38.800 --> 00:08:40.820 And kids I want you to try this. 00:08:40.820 --> 00:08:44.060 You go out get in a swimming pool or go out in the ocean. 00:08:44.060 --> 00:08:46.560 How far can you lift your body out of the water 00:08:46.560 --> 00:08:49.320 without touching the floor of the pool. 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:54.800 Now whales are identified by their tail patterns. 00:08:54.800 --> 00:08:58.220 Every whale has a different pattern on their tail. 00:08:58.220 --> 00:09:00.200 Scientists go out they take pictures 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:02.220 of these flukes or tails. 00:09:02.220 --> 00:09:03.100 They come back, 00:09:03.100 --> 00:09:04.800 they put them into a database. 00:09:04.800 --> 00:09:08.120 They record them and they try to match them up 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:11.640 and from this they can get a count of how many whales 00:09:11.640 --> 00:09:14.040 might be out there in the ocean at this time. 00:09:14.040 --> 00:09:17.160 So one of the tasks though is to match the picture. 00:09:17.160 --> 00:09:18.940 So the picture up on the right 00:09:18.940 --> 00:09:23.300 is actually the one tail that was just taken. 00:09:23.300 --> 00:09:25.360 They're trying to match it to the database. 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:27.960 And can you match that tail? 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:31.500 Which one is the same one as that tail? 00:09:31.560 --> 00:09:33.500 And what you're going to see down here 00:09:33.500 --> 00:09:35.820 is probably down the hand corner 00:09:35.820 --> 00:09:39.380 is the actual tail of that whale. 00:09:40.860 --> 00:09:44.640 Where do humpback whales live? 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:48.380 We find them here in Hawaii and 00:09:48.380 --> 00:09:52.740 they migrate between Hawaii and Alaska. 00:09:52.740 --> 00:09:54.880 They come to Hawaii during the winter 00:09:54.880 --> 00:09:57.900 and then they swim back up to Alaska. 00:09:57.920 --> 00:10:00.220 To the cooler waters where they can feed 00:10:00.220 --> 00:10:01.900 during the summer times. 00:10:01.900 --> 00:10:07.200 Each trip is about 2500 miles going back and forth. 00:10:07.220 --> 00:10:09.940 A question here for you to do a little research on is, 00:10:09.940 --> 00:10:13.040 how in the world do they know where to go? 00:10:15.920 --> 00:10:17.800 When they're up in Alaska they're going to feed 00:10:17.800 --> 00:10:20.240 and we want to talk about the feeding a little bit here. 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:21.280 They have no teeth. 00:10:21.280 --> 00:10:22.800 So how do they eat? 00:10:22.800 --> 00:10:24.680 They have what's called baleen 00:10:24.680 --> 00:10:28.180 and this picture down on the left hand side 00:10:28.180 --> 00:10:30.160 called fuzzy baleen plates 00:10:30.160 --> 00:10:33.120 is an actual picture of some baleen. 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:36.440 The baleen is about six to ten twelve feet long 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:38.140 depending on the whale. 00:10:38.140 --> 00:10:40.380 It is plates of this that are attached 00:10:40.380 --> 00:10:43.600 to the top jaw of the whale. 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:46.140 When the whale opens its mouth 00:10:46.140 --> 00:10:47.600 and takes in a gulp of water. 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:50.960 It traps the little fish and krill that it's eating 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:54.380 on the hairs on these baleen plates. 00:10:54.380 --> 00:10:57.380 It then swirls its tongue around 00:10:57.380 --> 00:10:59.240 and on these plates 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:01.340 and scoops off what it can. 00:11:01.340 --> 00:11:02.480 Shoves it down the throat, 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:07.700 spits out the water and starts all over again. 00:11:07.700 --> 00:11:10.640 Here's pictures of what they're actually eating. 00:11:10.640 --> 00:11:14.140 It is little tiny shrimp like things called krill. 00:11:14.140 --> 00:11:17.320 You can see the picture down on the bottom right 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:18.020 where the whale 00:11:18.020 --> 00:11:21.460 It has a huge, huge mouth and open jaw. 00:11:21.460 --> 00:11:22.640 It's opened up its mouth 00:11:22.640 --> 00:11:25.300 and that's where it's taken that gulp of water. 00:11:25.380 --> 00:11:28.340 The tongue is the size of a small car. 00:11:28.340 --> 00:11:30.580 So you can imagine how big that lower jaw 00:11:30.580 --> 00:11:32.640 has to be to hold that tongue. 00:11:32.640 --> 00:11:35.160 It's going to swirl around on those plates of baleen 00:11:35.160 --> 00:11:37.160 and scrape this stuff off. 00:11:39.500 --> 00:11:43.320 They eat using something called bubble net feeding 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:45.860 and what happens is that the whale swims around 00:11:45.860 --> 00:11:47.640 and around and around in a circle. 00:11:47.640 --> 00:11:49.080 Its trapping, 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:50.540 it's blowing bubbles 00:11:50.540 --> 00:11:52.220 and it's building like a bubble net 00:11:52.220 --> 00:11:53.920 and it's trapping all the little fish 00:11:53.920 --> 00:11:55.900 into the middle of that net. 00:11:55.900 --> 00:11:59.520 And when it gets the whole bubble net pulled together 00:11:59.520 --> 00:12:02.040 there will be a group of these whales doing this 00:12:02.040 --> 00:12:05.100 that the whales will come up through the middle of 00:12:05.100 --> 00:12:06.760 that bubble net 00:12:06.760 --> 00:12:09.980 taking in that gulp of either the little krill 00:12:09.980 --> 00:12:12.760 or these are little like sardines, little fish, 00:12:12.760 --> 00:12:15.980 and they will again use that tongue 00:12:15.980 --> 00:12:20.580 scrape it off and let the water out and go back. 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:24.000 Could a humpback whale swallow you? 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:25.440 Absolutely no! 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:27.640 Their mouth is only 00:12:27.640 --> 00:12:29.280 the back of their throat is only about 00:12:29.280 --> 00:12:30.760 as big as a grapefruit. 00:12:30.760 --> 00:12:32.300 So think about that 00:12:32.300 --> 00:12:35.180 how big the back of your throat is for the size of you. 00:12:35.180 --> 00:12:37.360 The whale cannot swallow anything 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:39.880 bigger than the back of that throat, 00:12:39.880 --> 00:12:42.500 because it doesn't have teeth that it can chew it up. 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:45.780 Now here's an example of the feeding. 00:12:45.780 --> 00:12:46.880 These are the little fish, 00:12:46.880 --> 00:12:48.900 they've all been collected together. 00:12:48.900 --> 00:12:52.700 Here's the whale coming out of the water. 00:12:52.700 --> 00:12:55.060 Spitting out that water taking that gulp 00:12:55.060 --> 00:12:56.560 and then they sink back down 00:12:56.560 --> 00:12:57.620 and they come back up again. 00:12:57.620 --> 00:12:59.960 So they have found this school of fish 00:12:59.960 --> 00:13:02.480 that they are trapping with the bubble net. 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:05.080 And they will come up and up 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:07.640 up and down over and over again 00:13:07.640 --> 00:13:09.540 taking gulps of that 00:13:09.540 --> 00:13:11.820 of the fish that are down there and the krill 00:13:11.820 --> 00:13:14.400 until it goes away and then they'll swim off 00:13:14.400 --> 00:13:16.520 find another place and start all over. 00:13:17.280 --> 00:13:18.700 Pretty cool. 00:13:18.700 --> 00:13:20.360 Now interesting fact here. 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:21.720 They eat a lot. 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:25.640 They eat between 2000-3000 pounds of krill and small fish 00:13:25.640 --> 00:13:26.720 every single day. 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:29.180 They don't eat down in here in Hawaii 00:13:29.180 --> 00:13:31.320 because we do not have food for them. 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:32.620 They go back up to Alaska 00:13:32.620 --> 00:13:34.920 they eat those several months in a row 00:13:34.920 --> 00:13:37.820 and store that as blubber. 00:13:37.820 --> 00:13:40.120 Now this would be like you eating 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:43.420 about 250 big macs every single hour. 00:13:43.420 --> 00:13:46.640 I get sick just looking at this picture. 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:50.900 Do whales make sounds? 00:13:50.900 --> 00:13:51.740 Yes they do. 00:13:51.740 --> 00:13:53.980 All whales make sounds of some kind 00:13:53.980 --> 00:13:57.220 but only the males and the boys are the real singers 00:13:57.220 --> 00:14:00.540 of seeing what they call kind of a tune. 00:14:00.540 --> 00:14:03.220 It's the same patterns over and over again 00:14:03.220 --> 00:14:05.620 but if you are out snorkeling or diving 00:14:05.620 --> 00:14:07.440 in the waters especially around Maui 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:09.400 where there's lots of whales during whale season. 00:14:09.400 --> 00:14:14.160 You'll hear the sounds of the whales from underwater 00:14:14.160 --> 00:14:15.400 just as you're swimming along 00:14:15.400 --> 00:14:17.500 the sound carries through the water. 00:14:17.520 --> 00:14:18.580 So the males sing. 00:14:18.580 --> 00:14:20.100 They are singing a song. 00:14:20.100 --> 00:14:23.040 The song is recorded throughout the Pacific. 00:14:23.040 --> 00:14:26.900 The whales throughout this area all sing the same basic song 00:14:26.900 --> 00:14:28.900 and it changes a little bit every year. 00:14:28.900 --> 00:14:30.800 It's like there's an orchestral leader there 00:14:30.800 --> 00:14:32.840 that changes that tune. 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:38.900 Threats to the humpback whales. 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:42.320 In Hawaii, tiger sharks are one of the threats. 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:45.000 They don't have many threats down here. 00:14:45.040 --> 00:14:46.780 It's one reason they like to have their babies 00:14:46.780 --> 00:14:48.720 down here they're more protected 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:52.520 but if the whale is weak or sick or if there is a baby, 00:14:52.520 --> 00:14:54.560 tiger sharks could go after it. 00:14:54.560 --> 00:14:57.280 Killer whales in Alaska are a real threat 00:14:57.280 --> 00:15:00.440 to the again the weak and the babies. 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:03.480 But the biggest threat to the humpback whales 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:07.300 is people and the trash in the ocean. 00:15:07.340 --> 00:15:10.260 The fishing gear that they get caught in, 00:15:10.260 --> 00:15:13.620 we're going to talk about that more next week in our lesson 00:15:13.620 --> 00:15:16.840 and you're going to see a video on how the scientists 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:18.920 actually can disentangle the whales, 00:15:18.920 --> 00:15:22.000 how do they get that fishing gear off of them. 00:15:22.040 --> 00:15:23.500 And also boat strikes. 00:15:23.500 --> 00:15:26.180 This poor whale ran into the propeller of a boat. 00:15:26.180 --> 00:15:30.100 It cut it, the whale might survive or might not. 00:15:30.100 --> 00:15:33.280 But it's one reason that boats during whale season down here 00:15:33.280 --> 00:15:37.240 in Hawaii try to go slowly so they can avoid 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:40.600 actually hitting the whales and doing the damage to them. 00:15:41.920 --> 00:15:44.380 What can you do to help protect the whales? 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:46.240 Number one, 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:49.800 don't bother them stay at least a hundred yards away. 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:52.580 There are laws that say you cannot go closer 00:15:52.580 --> 00:15:55.760 than a hundred yards to a whale. 00:15:55.760 --> 00:15:57.720 These are tour boats, 00:15:57.720 --> 00:15:59.500 they are fishing boats, 00:15:59.560 --> 00:16:01.280 they are kayaks, 00:16:01.280 --> 00:16:03.280 anything that's out in the water needs to stay 00:16:03.280 --> 00:16:04.940 at least a hundred yards away. 00:16:06.280 --> 00:16:08.000 Pick up your trash. 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:09.880 Don't let it get into the ocean. 00:16:09.880 --> 00:16:11.740 Use less plastic as we all know 00:16:11.740 --> 00:16:13.920 is going to help us in many different ways. 00:16:13.920 --> 00:16:17.880 Use reusable water bottles and bags. 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:23.000 So hope you got some basic facts here about the whales. 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:25.040 This should help you as you go on with your studies. 00:16:25.040 --> 00:16:28.680 Teachers also there are now lesson plans that are 00:16:28.680 --> 00:16:31.200 posted on the Waikiki Aquarium website 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:33.120 that go along with these lessons. 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:36.720 All right now you know everything 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:38.580 you could ever want to know about a humpback whale. 00:16:38.580 --> 00:16:41.120 But to test yourself we have what's called the 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:42.880 Humpback Whale Trivia. 00:16:42.880 --> 00:16:44.220 On our website, 00:16:44.220 --> 00:16:45.740 which you really get the address 00:16:45.740 --> 00:16:48.000 for that at the end of the program here, 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:51.380 are different educational materials 00:16:51.380 --> 00:16:53.800 and one is called Whale Trivia. 00:16:53.820 --> 00:16:58.160 It's actually four pages here of questions and answers. 00:16:58.160 --> 00:16:59.500 It's a great resource. 00:16:59.540 --> 00:17:02.560 It was written originally to go to a radio station 00:17:02.560 --> 00:17:05.020 to ask these questions of the public each day 00:17:05.020 --> 00:17:05.940 but they're fun ones. 00:17:05.940 --> 00:17:09.020 So you might approach the kids at this point with these. 00:17:09.020 --> 00:17:10.280 There's questions like 00:17:10.280 --> 00:17:11.440 the mouth of the humpback whale 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:13.740 is about one-third the size of the body, 00:17:13.740 --> 00:17:15.200 How big is the tongue? 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:18.100 I don't know if that was touched on yet or not. 00:17:18.100 --> 00:17:21.280 Okay, other questions on here again there's about 30 00:17:21.280 --> 00:17:22.200 30 of them. 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:24.340 One activity that might be kind of fun, 00:17:24.340 --> 00:17:26.960 for you to do with your kids so that they learn these, 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:30.440 is to give every child or every two kids a question. 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:31.780 One of the questions. 00:17:31.780 --> 00:17:33.360 Have them design it, 00:17:33.360 --> 00:17:34.420 the answer, 00:17:34.420 --> 00:17:36.280 do it artistically. 00:17:36.820 --> 00:17:37.940 Put the question on the page, 00:17:37.940 --> 00:17:39.380 make it be like a poster, 00:17:39.380 --> 00:17:41.300 have them design the answer. 00:17:41.300 --> 00:17:42.760 Put them up on your bulletin board 00:17:42.760 --> 00:17:45.240 and you come up with a great bulletin board there 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:46.700 of whale trivia. 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:50.000 Again this can all be found on our website. 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:52.220 Okay now, let's take the next project 00:17:52.220 --> 00:17:53.680 here I want to take with you 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:56.000 is to show you how you can teach the kids 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:59.960 how to draw a humpback whale to scale. 00:17:59.960 --> 00:18:04.500 You know that the humpback whale is 45 feet long. 00:18:04.520 --> 00:18:07.120 We're going to divide it into sections here 00:18:07.120 --> 00:18:10.900 and be able to figure out how to do this. 00:18:10.900 --> 00:18:13.300 It's actually a very easy process to do. 00:18:13.300 --> 00:18:15.840 I learned this when I was first teaching 00:18:15.840 --> 00:18:17.100 with the humpback whale sanctuary. 00:18:17.100 --> 00:18:19.080 I figured I needed to know how to draw it. 00:18:19.080 --> 00:18:21.280 So drawing it to scale actually works. 00:18:21.280 --> 00:18:23.200 You're going to take a piece of paper, 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:26.280 you're going to fold that piece of paper into thirds. 00:18:26.280 --> 00:18:29.380 Make it be like a hot dog roll. 00:18:29.380 --> 00:18:32.400 So you've got one third, one third, one third 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:33.200 and you open it up 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:36.020 you've got three different sections to your paper. 00:18:36.020 --> 00:18:38.100 Okay, again hot dog roll. 00:18:38.120 --> 00:18:40.300 Your paper is folded this way 00:18:40.300 --> 00:18:41.460 and this way 00:18:41.460 --> 00:18:45.480 and you come out with your paper into thirds. 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:47.620 Not fourths but thirds. 00:18:47.620 --> 00:18:48.900 Alright now, 00:18:48.900 --> 00:18:52.280 let's take a look at this paper 00:18:52.280 --> 00:18:53.860 and I have up here 00:18:53.860 --> 00:18:56.460 an example of the paper drawn up here. 00:18:56.460 --> 00:18:58.440 My total length of the whale, 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:01.220 remember and keep asking the kids these questions, 00:19:01.220 --> 00:19:03.700 is 45 feet long. 00:19:03.760 --> 00:19:06.280 So I have 45 feet, 00:19:06.280 --> 00:19:08.020 is the whole length of the whale, 00:19:08.020 --> 00:19:10.560 so dividing that into thirds, 00:19:10.560 --> 00:19:13.620 is 15, 15 and 15. 00:19:13.620 --> 00:19:15.200 Three sections. 00:19:16.280 --> 00:19:17.560 Start by asking the kids 00:19:17.560 --> 00:19:21.100 what is the basic shape of the whale. 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:22.640 The basic shape is like 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.760 I always refer to it easily as a type of food. 00:19:25.760 --> 00:19:30.640 They'll say a banana, a cucumber, a pickle, a sausage. 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:33.180 And with that shape in mind, 00:19:33.180 --> 00:19:34.580 I want you to draw, 00:19:34.580 --> 00:19:38.900 in the first two sections so it is equal to 30 feet, 00:19:38.980 --> 00:19:42.500 the basic shape of the humpback whale. 00:19:42.580 --> 00:19:43.500 Okay. 00:19:43.520 --> 00:19:44.500 Remind them to fill, 00:19:44.500 --> 00:19:47.600 we really want to fill the paper with this to get the idea. 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:50.040 Now, next point we want to add 00:19:50.040 --> 00:19:53.760 let's add a tail and the tail is also called the fluke. 00:19:53.760 --> 00:19:57.140 Now the fluke is 15 feet this way 00:19:57.140 --> 00:19:59.980 and it's also 15 feet about that way. 00:19:59.980 --> 00:20:02.780 Okay so the tail, 00:20:02.780 --> 00:20:04.900 a little harder to draw here 00:20:04.900 --> 00:20:06.880 kind of looks like that. 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:09.220 Okay, lovely tail I've got there. 00:20:09.220 --> 00:20:12.740 Now the tail has specific markings on it. 00:20:13.180 --> 00:20:15.760 So it's not, as you can see on here I've got white 00:20:15.760 --> 00:20:17.460 on the end of my tail here. 00:20:17.460 --> 00:20:21.200 Each whale has a different design on its tail. 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:24.900 It's how the researchers identify one whale from the other. 00:20:24.900 --> 00:20:26.940 When they're out on their boats they'll take a picture 00:20:26.940 --> 00:20:28.680 as the whale comes up out of the water 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:30.620 and shows its blueprints. 00:20:30.620 --> 00:20:31.560 Tail up out of the water, 00:20:31.560 --> 00:20:33.160 they snap a picture of it. 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:34.540 They go back into the office, 00:20:34.540 --> 00:20:36.560 they compare it with all the other pictures 00:20:36.560 --> 00:20:38.240 that they've got of whales here in Hawaii 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:39.800 or wherever they are. 00:20:39.800 --> 00:20:41.800 If it is a new design on a tail, 00:20:41.800 --> 00:20:44.360 then it is a whale they have not seen before 00:20:44.360 --> 00:20:47.200 and it's one way that they can count the whales 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:48.420 that we have here in Hawaii. 00:20:48.420 --> 00:20:50.115 Not the easiest, think about it. 00:20:50.115 --> 00:20:52.860 You're both going like this the whale's going like this. 00:20:52.860 --> 00:20:55.340 I'd be so seasick if I was doing that. 00:20:55.340 --> 00:20:57.280 It's the one way that they can count the whales. 00:20:57.280 --> 00:20:59.420 So, let's make a design on your tail. 00:20:59.420 --> 00:21:01.900 Put some kind of coloring on it. 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:04.120 I think mine's going to be the polka dot whale, 00:21:04.120 --> 00:21:10.400 so that I've got little polka dots all over my whale here. 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:12.980 So, I have the polka dot whale. 00:21:12.980 --> 00:21:14.720 It's my design on my whale, 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:17.420 again everyone is different. 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:20.020 Then 15 feet. 00:21:20.020 --> 00:21:22.440 Alright let's take a look at another body part 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:25.580 which is the pec fins and take a guess, 00:21:25.580 --> 00:21:28.820 how big do you think these pec fins are? 00:21:28.820 --> 00:21:30.880 You're right 15 feet. 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:33.940 So, the pec fan comes down like this, 00:21:33.940 --> 00:21:36.840 like that you've got one on the back side 00:21:36.840 --> 00:21:39.300 also on the other side. 00:21:39.340 --> 00:21:41.120 And these have coloring on them but 00:21:41.120 --> 00:21:44.300 the coloring does not mean anything. 00:21:44.380 --> 00:21:47.120 It doesn't meant to identify the whale or anything 00:21:47.120 --> 00:21:49.840 just has coloring on it so the kids can color it 00:21:49.840 --> 00:21:51.700 if they want to or not. 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:54.920 Now the pec fins are actually used for steering. 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:59.640 The actual power in the whale comes back in here 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:00.920 it's called the peduncle. 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:04.640 It is the strongest muscle of any mammal in the world. 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:06.000 Very very powerful . 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:07.320 Think about that muscle. 00:22:07.320 --> 00:22:09.440 When that whale breaches and hopefully 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:11.340 you've all been able to see a whale breach 00:22:11.340 --> 00:22:13.060 that whale is able to lift itself 00:22:13.060 --> 00:22:15.180 all the way up and out of the water. 00:22:15.180 --> 00:22:19.500 That comes from that power on that back end of the whale. 00:22:19.520 --> 00:22:21.120 I always tell the kids try this, 00:22:21.120 --> 00:22:22.320 you're in a swimming pool 00:22:22.320 --> 00:22:24.540 you can't touch the bottom of the pool, 00:22:24.540 --> 00:22:27.000 how far can you get your body out of the water? 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:28.660 I'm lucky to get my shoulders out 00:22:28.660 --> 00:22:31.200 by just kicking my feet up. 00:22:31.220 --> 00:22:32.300 Impossible to do. 00:22:32.300 --> 00:22:33.720 They are 45 tons. 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:36.240 They are lifting with that muscle back in there 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:37.580 and pushing with the tail 00:22:37.580 --> 00:22:39.940 and getting that whale out of the water. 00:22:39.940 --> 00:22:42.000 Very very strong muscle. 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:45.500 Okay, so the pec fins are each 15 feet long. 00:22:45.500 --> 00:22:47.740 They're used basically for steering. 00:22:47.740 --> 00:22:51.060 Then we have a little bit of a dorsal fin up here 00:22:51.060 --> 00:22:55.940 and as the power point said there is a small fin up there 00:22:55.940 --> 00:22:58.460 makes a little bit of a hump in the back of the whale. 00:22:58.460 --> 00:23:01.260 But again the whale is called the humpback whale 00:23:01.260 --> 00:23:03.375 because when it dives down the water 00:23:03.375 --> 00:23:04.640 it humps its back 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:06.960 it's pumping up and diving down head first. 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:09.320 And you'll actually see that if you're watching a whale. 00:23:09.320 --> 00:23:11.300 You've seen it do some activity on the 00:23:11.300 --> 00:23:14.300 on the top of the water on the surface. 00:23:14.300 --> 00:23:17.400 You'll see it actually kind of hump as it goes back down in. 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:22.300 Now big important part of the whale is the mouth. 00:23:22.320 --> 00:23:24.020 So the mouth comes down 00:23:24.020 --> 00:23:27.580 it is about one-third the size of the body. 00:23:27.580 --> 00:23:33.140 The eyeball, about the size of a grapefruit, 00:23:33.140 --> 00:23:38.100 is located one-third of the way back on the body. 00:23:38.180 --> 00:23:40.400 And then the mouth is very unique. 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:41.340 It has to open 00:23:41.340 --> 00:23:43.300 remember when you watched it feed 00:23:43.300 --> 00:23:46.680 that mouth opens way way up down like this. 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:48.280 That tongue is huge, 00:23:48.280 --> 00:23:49.700 one of the trivia questions, 00:23:49.700 --> 00:23:50.880 the tongue is actually, 00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:51.680 this is kind of gross, 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:52.840 the size of a car. 00:23:52.840 --> 00:23:55.780 A small car has to fit inside that mouth 00:23:55.780 --> 00:23:57.080 15 feet of the mouth 00:23:57.080 --> 00:23:58.360 huge tongue 00:23:58.360 --> 00:24:02.620 that mouth then has what's called ventral pleats 00:24:02.620 --> 00:24:06.300 that go along the bottom of the whale here. 00:24:06.300 --> 00:24:07.980 Works like a fan 00:24:07.980 --> 00:24:09.345 like an accordion 00:24:09.345 --> 00:24:13.200 it allows that lower jaw to open way way way up. 00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:17.220 And inside that mouth you then have the baleen. 00:24:17.760 --> 00:24:21.500 They do not have teeth they have what is called baleen. 00:24:21.500 --> 00:24:24.520 This is an example of the baleen. 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:30.320 This was taken from a whale that had died up in Alaska. 00:24:30.320 --> 00:24:33.620 There are about 200 to 300 plates of these 00:24:33.620 --> 00:24:35.760 that hang down from the roof of the mouth. 00:24:35.760 --> 00:24:37.660 They are like your fingernail, 00:24:37.660 --> 00:24:39.620 a hard surface here 00:24:39.620 --> 00:24:41.120 and they have little hairs. 00:24:41.120 --> 00:24:42.480 And the hairs are usually longer. 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:44.400 Our hairs have really broken off of these 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:46.420 but they have little hairs on them 00:24:46.420 --> 00:24:49.340 And it's these hairs that then trap the fish and krill 00:24:49.340 --> 00:24:51.460 as they're swimming through the water. 00:24:51.460 --> 00:24:53.120 Trap that fish and krill 00:24:53.120 --> 00:24:54.200 and are able to eat 00:24:54.200 --> 00:24:55.100 and we're going to get into the 00:24:55.100 --> 00:24:57.900 feeding more on the next show. 00:24:57.980 --> 00:25:00.020 But we've got then the 00:25:00.020 --> 00:25:00.800 the mouth, 00:25:00.800 --> 00:25:03.800 you've got the ventral pleats again. 00:25:03.840 --> 00:25:08.720 Remember that the whale was a 00:25:08.740 --> 00:25:11.880 it's a mammal which means it has to have hair. 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:16.840 So the little hairs come out of actually the 00:25:16.840 --> 00:25:18.180 what are called tubercles. 00:25:18.180 --> 00:25:23.100 I call them giant warts that come out from 00:25:23.120 --> 00:25:24.540 that are on the top of the 00:25:24.540 --> 00:25:26.900 of the mouth area here on the head 00:25:26.900 --> 00:25:28.060 little hairs growing out of them 00:25:28.060 --> 00:25:31.240 and nobody knows exactly what those hairs are for. 00:25:31.240 --> 00:25:35.100 They think they might sense something but they do not know. 00:25:35.120 --> 00:25:37.500 Now we're missing one part. 00:25:37.540 --> 00:25:40.800 You figure out what is that part that is missing? 00:25:40.840 --> 00:25:41.720 Very important one. 00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:42.980 It is the blowholes. 00:25:42.980 --> 00:25:44.080 Trivia question, 00:25:44.080 --> 00:25:46.900 how many blowholes does a humpback whale have? 00:25:46.900 --> 00:25:49.080 Well if you paid attention to the powerpoint 00:25:49.080 --> 00:25:50.840 you know it's got two. 00:25:50.840 --> 00:25:54.100 There's one on each side of the whale there. 00:25:54.100 --> 00:25:58.060 A toothed whale will have one blowhole 00:25:58.060 --> 00:26:02.780 or humpback whales have two that are up there. 00:26:02.780 --> 00:26:06.500 That's basically the shape of the whale. 00:26:06.540 --> 00:26:10.000 It is difficult to tell a male from a female. 00:26:10.040 --> 00:26:12.280 Partly by you can do it by size 00:26:12.280 --> 00:26:14.260 that the females are usually bigger 00:26:14.260 --> 00:26:17.900 because they are going to carry the babies. 00:26:17.960 --> 00:26:22.800 And they tend to have a baby with them if it's 00:26:22.860 --> 00:26:26.020 during the the season that the babies have been born. 00:26:26.340 --> 00:26:29.300 Now, looking at this whale you now know how to draw it. 00:26:29.300 --> 00:26:31.600 It's a simple drawing, simple thing. 00:26:31.620 --> 00:26:33.220 You might try this with other animals. 00:26:33.220 --> 00:26:35.860 I've tried it with dolphins, with different sea animals. 00:26:35.860 --> 00:26:36.780 I can't do it. 00:26:36.780 --> 00:26:38.140 This one is in proportion 00:26:38.140 --> 00:26:39.520 and it's made it really easy to go 00:26:39.520 --> 00:26:41.320 one third, one third, one third, 00:26:41.320 --> 00:26:44.700 one third here on the body. 00:26:44.760 --> 00:26:46.620 Now there's different ways you can play with this too. 00:26:46.620 --> 00:26:50.020 If you go outside and you look at the 00:26:50.020 --> 00:26:52.100 whale outside 00:26:52.100 --> 00:26:54.400 go outside and figure out the size of it. 00:26:54.400 --> 00:26:56.440 I've taken a rope before 00:26:56.440 --> 00:26:59.380 and this rope is about 45 feet long. 00:26:59.380 --> 00:27:01.480 Stretch the rope out on the ground 00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:03.940 that kids get an idea of how big it is. 00:27:03.940 --> 00:27:06.100 Again it's kind of like a school bus. 00:27:06.180 --> 00:27:07.800 But take the rope out and try this. 00:27:07.800 --> 00:27:09.480 Then have the kids, 00:27:09.480 --> 00:27:12.140 let's say that this is the whale you want to represent, 00:27:12.140 --> 00:27:13.500 have the kids make this whale. 00:27:13.500 --> 00:27:14.900 This one's really fun. 00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:19.300 You have the rope that goes from here to here your 45 feet. 00:27:19.380 --> 00:27:22.220 I have kids line up holding hands, the full length 00:27:22.220 --> 00:27:23.820 are facing each other somehow they're holding on to 00:27:23.820 --> 00:27:25.820 each other to make the length of the whale. 00:27:25.820 --> 00:27:28.320 Have some kids make the two pec fins. 00:27:28.320 --> 00:27:30.960 These need to be about one third the size of the body 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:31.520 on this side, 00:27:31.520 --> 00:27:32.640 on that side. 00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:34.700 Have some that will make the tail 00:27:34.700 --> 00:27:38.100 that would be like 15 feet wide on this end 00:27:38.100 --> 00:27:40.860 and then a couple that are the blowhole. 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:43.340 Now, once you get the whale made, 00:27:43.340 --> 00:27:44.740 depending on the age of your kids 00:27:44.740 --> 00:27:46.440 and how well they're listening to you, 00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:47.620 try to make a move. 00:27:47.620 --> 00:27:50.260 So on the count of three, you're all going to move forward. 00:27:50.260 --> 00:27:52.400 So the body moves slowly forward 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:55.300 the pec fins need to move so they're moving in and out 00:27:55.300 --> 00:27:56.920 like this as they're going forward 00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:59.580 the tail wants to put their hands up and down 00:27:59.580 --> 00:28:00.780 somehow go up and down 00:28:00.780 --> 00:28:02.640 they are the tail moving up and down 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:04.200 and the blowhole is really fun. 00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:05.920 You're going to holler "There she blows!" 00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:07.320 and she's going to go whoosh 00:28:07.320 --> 00:28:09.700 whoosh as the kids come up with the blowhole. 00:28:09.700 --> 00:28:11.240 Again it shows the size 00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:13.780 it gives the kids the real perspective of what it is. 00:28:13.780 --> 00:28:15.420 You're never going to see a humpback whale 00:28:15.420 --> 00:28:17.140 in captivity they are too big. 00:28:17.140 --> 00:28:19.620 So the more you can do to represent it, the better. 00:28:19.620 --> 00:28:21.140 Another way you can do this 00:28:21.140 --> 00:28:23.540 is to actually take a twin bed sheet. 00:28:23.540 --> 00:28:26.200 A twin bed sheet is 15 feet long. 00:28:26.220 --> 00:28:28.840 Take that sheet make the whale pattern on the sheet 00:28:28.840 --> 00:28:30.660 have the kids draw their own pattern 00:28:30.660 --> 00:28:32.680 what does their tail look like on the end. 00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:35.300 Cut it out and you have a representation there 00:28:35.300 --> 00:28:37.960 of what that tail is actually like. 00:28:38.560 --> 00:28:42.060 So, that does it for today. 00:28:42.060 --> 00:28:44.100 We're now going to show you a slide that does 00:28:44.100 --> 00:28:46.900 give you our website on it 00:28:46.900 --> 00:28:47.600 gives you 00:28:47.600 --> 00:28:50.540 In that website you're going to find a variety of activities 00:28:50.540 --> 00:28:53.800 underneath the education and the kids and the teachers part. 00:28:53.800 --> 00:28:55.860 One of them is the Whale Trivia. 00:28:55.860 --> 00:28:59.000 I highly advise that you take that print that out 00:28:59.020 --> 00:29:00.900 and next week we are going to go into 00:29:00.900 --> 00:29:02.480 more detail about feeding, 00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:03.600 about blubber, 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:05.640 threats to the whales, etc. 00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:07.380 So thanks for joining us 00:29:07.380 --> 00:29:08.880 and we will see you next week. 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:10.100 Have a good week.