Interestingly, though they are enormous, fin whales are not predatory. They filter feed for tiny krill or small pelagic fishes and are totally harmless to people (other than through accidental collisions).
There are 14 species of baleen whale including the blue, bowhead, right, humpback, minke and grey whale. These bristly baleen plates filter, sift, sieve or trap the whales' favourite prey from seawater inside their mouths.
What family does a blue whale belong to?
: a tough material that hangs down from the upper jaw of whales without teeth and is used by the whale to filter small ocean animals out of seawater.
Humpbacks can grow to 60 feet (18 meters) long, and they can weigh a whopping 40 tons (about half the size of a blue whale), according to the NOAA. Their flippers can grow up to 16 feet (5 m) long, which is the largest appendage in the world. Their tails are also massive and grow up to 18 feet (5.5 m) wide.
Io ( “EYE oh” ) is the fifth of Jupiter's known satellites and the third largest; it is the innermost of the Galilean moons. Io is slightly larger than Earth's Moon. The pronunciation “EE oh” is also acceptable. Jupiter's moon Io is the most active volcanic natural satellite in our Solar System.
Europa (moon) - Europa ( (listen) yoor-OH-p?, Jupiter II) is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 79 known moons of Jupiter.
Io, in Greek mythology, daughter of Inachus (the river god of Argos) and the Oceanid Melia. Under the name of Callithyia, Io was regarded as the first priestess of Hera, the wife of Zeus. Zeus fell in love with her and, to protect her from the wrath of Hera, changed her into a white heifer.
Io was another woman to whom Zeus fell in love and made her suffer. His jealous wife, however, Hera, learnt about this relationship and turned Io into a cow to keep her away from her husband. Io was about to suffer many misfortunes until she was finally turned into a woman again and have a normal life.
Also Gan·y·me·des [gan-uh-mee-deez].
saturnalia"? I have always understood to be pronounced as two syllables, given that io is not a Latin dipthong. Thus, I have heard it pronounced as "ee oh", with the "oh" being long. In contrast, I heard a Youtube video pronounce it "yo" as in "yo yo".
IO was an Argive princess and Naiad-nymph who was loved by the god Zeus. When Hera suddenly interrupted their tryst, Zeus transformed the maiden into a white heifer. However the goddess was not so easily fooled and requested the animal as a gift. She then appointed the hundred-eyed giant Argos Panoptes as its guard.
