Whales are huge sea animals who live in the ocean.They live like fish but are not fish they are mammals.Whales are mammals they drink milk just like humans.Whales are very different from fish.Most fish hatch from egges.Most all mammals are born alive. A baby whale is born out of it's mothers body.It's called a calf.Whales are gigantic at birth.Some calves are born 14 to 20 feet long.The mother pushes her new born out intothe surface of the water very gently.It quickly fills it's lung with air.It's mother needs fresh air also.
    When a whale comes up for Air it blows out all of it's old air and takes in new fresh air.The air comes out of it's blow hole on the top of there head.When people see the whale blow they say the whale is spouting.Some times the whale can spout as hight as twenty five feet into the air.
    Some whales can swim as long as 1 hour with out needing air.
    A humpback whale calf grows in side it's mother body for almost a year.All summer a whale swims in cold north pacific waters while her baby grow inside her body.a the end of the summer the cold water begans to freeze.So whales swim south to warmer waters.The warm waters are good places for the new born baby whale.Humpback whales have two blow holes at the top of there head.The whales breathe through the blow holes the way we breathe through are nose.

                                                            By: Justin Legge