Identify these Whales
Posted by Hanablerose@reddit | whales | View on Reddit | 33 comments
This is such a random question but is anyone able to guess what whales these are? They came in a gigglescape toy box from Target. I know the two on the left are sharks - I’m curious if anyone can identify those too!
StylishDavid@reddit
L to R: great white shark, basking shark, blue whale (juvenile), pilot whale, humpback whale, right whale (juvenile). Best guesses. No idea, really. I am saying juvenile for nos. 3 and 6 based only on size.
PompousPuffin@reddit
Second shark isnt a basking shark. Too long and mouth not wide enough. Likely a deformed gws by the looks of it compared to the first one
StylishDavid@reddit
Damn, out here getting downvoted for making inaccurate guesses about plastic whale toys. Sorry, everyone.
coyotemidnight@reddit
Pilot whale? Pilot whales have prominent dorsal fins. And right whale? Right whales do not have tubercles on their rostrums and have small pectoral flippers. The last three are sperm whale, humpback whale, and humpback whale.
deliverance73@reddit
Based on size compared with the floorboards they are all pretty small. 6’s pec fins look humpbacky.
ObsidianAerrow@reddit
Great white shark, another shark, blue whale, sperm whale, humpback, humpback
PompousPuffin@reddit
I second this.
LitleStitchWitch@reddit
thats what I was thinking. I'm surprised the blue whale isn't larger since it isn't to scale at all
turquoisebee@reddit
Maybe a minke, but I feel like that’s less likely
PompousPuffin@reddit
No, I think it is definitely a blue whale
showmeyourmoves28@reddit
The one all the way to the right is a right whale.
Opening-Ad8035@reddit
All humpback, except for the two left-most, which are sharks!
Furstname74727@reddit
I think they are plastic whales
Kundalini_electric@reddit
She's going to be dissapointed when she puts them in the bathtub
RevolutionaryBath710@reddit
Except the two sharks lol
scatch73@reddit
I came here to say this.
Thick-Cartoonist-493@reddit
Where did you get the two humpbacks on the right from? I use whale models for demonstrations when I'm guiding tours. Most of ours have broken and the kind we have, fully anatomically accurate, cost $120 each.
If those look closer to accurate than any of the other models I have seen online.
glatts@reddit
Have you tried eBay?
Thick-Cartoonist-493@reddit
I have not but that still isn't to the accuracy that I want.
The gradual fade from black to white only occurs in calves. Also that one doesn't have any barnacles added which is a specific species of acorn barnacle that only grows on humpback whales. It's also lacking an anus and genital slits I see that as important.
So that model could be used to illustrate a calf I guess.
I searched around eBay though, thanks for the suggestion.
SteveB1901@reddit
Ceramic ones
Dense-Analyst-4555@reddit
Hugh, Darryl, Patricia, Lisa, Stan and Greg I think?
MajicVole@reddit
That's not Greg. That's Murray you can tell by his dorsal fin.
Dense-Analyst-4555@reddit
Ohhhh ur so right my b Murray
talor_swib@reddit
Mmm... not sure that's Greg. Might be his brother Gordon.
pikachucet2@reddit
There's three humpbacks, a sperm whale and three sharks
oriensoccidens@reddit
These bring me back to when red lobster used to give out toys
Uszanka@reddit
Shark, shark, blue whale, sperm whale, humpback, humpback
AyaOfTheBunbunmaru@reddit
GWS, Sixgill, Blue whale, Cachalot, and two with barnacle looking humpbacks
Norwester77@reddit
I think the sharks on the left are intended to be Great White Sharks, but it would be easier to tell in a side view.
I’m guessing from the speckled coloration and kind of long pectoral flippers that the third from the left is supposed to be a Blue Whale.
Third from right is a Sperm Whale; the rightmost two are Humpback Whales.
Born_Structure1182@reddit
The first two are sharks then either fin, Sei or Blue, Sperm, humpback and another humpback
Crawler_Prepotente@reddit
From right to left.
Susan, Fredrick, Bob, Debbie, Black Debbie and Greg.
Thick-Cartoonist-493@reddit
Actually the humpback of the right isn't Susan.
It's actually Marverick56.
A lot of people get them mixed because of the shape of the dorsal fin but if you look at how high the outside tips come up from the trailing edge it's obvious.
Here is a link to mavericks56 happywhale profile.maverick56
scatch73@reddit
These sharks and whales are made of old dinosaurs (plastic). 🤣