We Had a Whale of a Time At the Whale Museum and Festival!!!

I had no idea how much I could learn about whales!?!

Did you know...

• The Korean Gray Whale uses the Korean South Sea to mate very year


• Whaling was only banned in 1986


• The blue whale is the biggest mammal on Earth. It's 33m long and weighs 179 tons.


• There is even prehistoric cave carvings of Whaling in Korea


• The Korean Gray Whale is always covered in barnacles and parasites which bury so deep into their skin that when the whales knock off the parasites they are scared with white marks until they die (see pic)


• non-teethed whales feed by catching plants and animals which filter through their whalebone or baleen when they swim (see pic of baleen)


• almost every part of a whale was used for something and nothing was thrown away


• teethed whales (like dolphins) produce complicated sound waves for communication by vibrating a fatty organ called the 'melon' located just behind their forehead


• food, food oils, candles, medicines, soap, perfume, lipsticks, ornaments, and fertilizer were all produced from whales