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Baleen Whale

What is a Baleen Whale? Baleen Whales are also known as whalebone whales, also a marine mammal. Baleen Whales have a scientific name “Mysticeti”,  there are currently about 16 species of Baleen Whale. Baleen Whales belong to four different families named Balaenidea, Balaenopteridea, Eschrichtiidae and Cetotheriidae.

 

 The main difference between a Baleen whale and a whale is that they are a specific type of whale by having baleen teeth in their mouths, which they use for filter feeding. They can filter the water out of their mouths by either lunge feeding or skim feeding, how do you do that you may ask? Well Some baleen whales including the right whales skim the water’s surface to collect food on their baleen, other whales have evolved through lunge feeding, whales that lunge feed their mouths wide, then push their bodies through the water with great force, this movement drives a massive amount of water into their mouths, after they close their mouths the whale pushes the water out through its baleen, leaving the food behind. Baleen whales love to eat krill. 

 

Their diet changed since they were no longer hunting animals, these whales had no need for their teeths, so instead they grew bristles, called baleen, they use their baleen like a sieve to catch prey, also climate change.

 

Several baleen whales species have been found in New Zealand, with the Southern right whale (Tohara) and humpback whale being the most commonly seen. The other baleen whales like blue whales, Bryde’s whales and sei whales have been frequently seen in New Zealand waters though they may also be seen less frequently or further offshore.   

My Dragon Ball Story

Mr Bell had read us 10 of the Dragon Ball books and watched the series, we all loved it but Mr Bell said next term we were going to write our own story of Dragon Ball, we were doing drama of Dragon Ball, heaps of activities and drew the characters. I found the start challenging and the middle of it because I couldn’t think on what to do but it didn’t have to be all about Goku and we could make our characters and who dies. I was partners with Zenalia but we made our own story, I enjoyed doing this, we had to blog a part of our story.

 

 

 

They were talking to each other “You know that there are this things called Dragon Ball” Says Bulma

“Oh what’s that?” 

“Well you have to collect Seven Dragon Balls and you get to make your wish.”                                                                                           

“How do we get it?!”

“There’s only one way…”

“Its scattered around the map”

“Anastasia, me and Tien Shinhan will come and help”

“Goku, can me and Chiaotzu come too!”  

“Krillin you should stay behind and you too Chiaotzu”

“Ohh fineee” 

They pack their bags and drive off to find the Dragon Balls 

Tien Shinhan and Anastasia were driving in the car while Goku was using Kinto Un…

“ Um I can’t fight how am I supposed to help”

“ Well it’s alright we’ll call Launch and Bulma” says Goku

“ What about the boys?”

“I suppose they can come” 

“Oii can you guys be quiet please” says Tien Shan 

“ Tien Shinhan, you should have some manners, and a quick question: are you a boy or girl?

“Whispers: Ooo Goku you messed up big time! Says Tien. 

“OOO GOKU HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW I’M A GIRL!

“Oh, so you are a girl!

“Omg Goku, just stop your going to make it worse with her!” 

Goku and Anastasia start fighting and Tien can’t be bothered to do anything well; he just calls Bulma and Launch to come where they are going. They are wondering what is happening as Tien calls for them. When they arrive Goku and Anasastia are fast asleep, Goku just takes all of the space while Anasastia gets a tiny bit of space. He could have slept on his cloud but he wanted to have a warm comfy sleep

“Goku, wake up now” 

In a muffled voice he muttered “Yeah, yeah five more minutes.”

“No, Goku wake up now!  

“M’kay whatever”

Tien Shinhan sighs… “ Oh Goku, you’re so lazy now”

Bulma and her friends are sleeping in their tent already, while Tien Shinhan cannot sleep at all (Goku and Anastasia are sleeping in the car and yes Goku is still taking up most of the space) Tien Shinhan tries to sleep in Bulma’s car because Bulma and them are sleeping in the tent which he thinks is weird.  Tien Shinhan opens the door, puts the front seats down and tries to sleep. He couldn’t sleep…something felt wrong but he doesn’t know what it is. He opens the doors and proceeds to go outside. He checks through the windows. Goku and Anastasia are there asleep he thinks to himself “If anyone’s there, come and fight me”

He forgot where they were, they were in a middle of a forest – there were road tracks but there were no cars anywhere. He heard rustling but it didn’t sound like leaves at all, something started zipping. He looked around and all he saw was…. Bulma! He instantly tried punching the air. 

“Uhh Tien Shinhan are you okay why are you still awake”

“Oh Clears throat… Oh nothing I was just getting some stuff, and I’m sleeping in your car”

“WHY! JUST SLEEP IN YOUR OWN CAR!”

“I CAN’T”

“WELL, WHY?”

“Can you guys please stop screaming?”… says Anastasia 

“YEAH, BE QUIET” 

“Really, it’s my fault?”

“Yeah it is!” 

“Bye, I’m going sleep” 

Tien Shinhan and the others just go back to sleep because they can’t be bothered to do it right now; they’ll just do it in the morning.

 

The next morning they are having breakfast all together except one person when Bulma asks 

“ Tien Shinhan what happened yesterday with an angry and happy tone”

“I thought there was a monster so I got ready to fight”

“ Why were you sleeping in my car?”

“ Well, Goku was taking up the whole space and Anastasia barely had any space”

“Goku you can’t do that!”

“ That’s how I sleep” 

Bulma sighs…

Anastasia comes out of the car looking crazy

“Good Morning” 

“Good Morning” they reply.

She goes and makes herself a cup of Milo and gets some biscuits to eat. 

“That was probably the worst sleep I had ever had”

“I had an amazing sleep”

“Yeah because you took all of the space while I had a tiny bit of space” 

Goku says sorry, and people accept his apologies. 

Later, they’re in the car going to their next destination and Bulma makes another Dragon Ball Radar. It’s all quiet in Bulma’s car but in Tien’s car they are blasting music and singing at the top of their lungs. Goku’s riding Kinto’un alngside his car. . They arrive at their destination. 

“It says the one of the Dragon Balls are here”
They all step outside but they never knew the worst was coming for them…. 

 

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