Cetacea

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title: Cetacea
text: Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the suborder Whippomorpha that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. Key characteristics are their fully aquatic lifestyle, streamlined body shape, often large size and exclusively carnivorous diet. They propel themselves through the water with powerful up-and-down movement of their tail which ends in a paddle-like fluke, using their flipper-shaped forelimbs to maneuver. While the majority of cetaceans live in marine environments, a sma
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description: Infraorder of mammals
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetacea
date created: 2002-01-01T23:31:54Z
date modified: 2024-09-14T23:02:31Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Mother_and_baby_sperm_whale.jpg","width":5115,"height":2877}
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