Average Size
Newborns: 10-15 feet
Adults: about 65 feet, but they rarely exceed 60 feet
Weight: up to 75-100 metric tons.
Location:
The female Bowheads are larger than the males.
The Bowhead is the only whale with baleen longer than 9 feet.
The spout of this whale is v-shaped.
They travel alone or in groups of no more than 6.
Females will have a calf every 2 years.
It is a slow swimming whale.
The Bowhead can stay underwater for more than 40 minuates.
They are skimming feeders.
They will eat euphausiids, amphipods, copepods, mysids, and pteropods.
They only preditor is the Killer Whale.
