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What is the flipper of a whale?


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Whale:

  1. Fins are broad, flat, fully membranous (webbed) limbs and are used as swimming appendages in the case of aquatic vertebrates.
  2. Aquatic animals like whales and dolphins have flippers.

Flippers :

  1. Flippers are modified limbs to perform motor functions (movement).
  2. A flipper has bones, cartilage, joints, and tendons.
  3. In the case of whales, the flippers are two in number which is the modification of the forelimbs.

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