Q2 Project

1. Narwhals
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By Skylar Dansereu
Digital Literacy Q2
The Unicorns of the Sea

2. Why do narwhals have a big tooth?
Why do some people think
narwhals are fake?

3. Narwhals tooth
• Narwhals have a really
long tooth they use for
protection. Males use it to
fight against each other
kind of like swords.
• Narwhals tusks can grow
out to about 9 feet. The
males tusks are bigger
then the females and
most of the time they
have two tusks.

4. Are Narwhals Fake?
• Narwhals are real.
People think they are
fake because either
they never saw one,
or they think that
narwhals have a horn
so it reminds them of
unicorn.

5. Where do Narwhals live?
• Arctic Ocean
• They usually stay there, but when they DO
migrate they just go to more shallow
waters in the Arctic Ocean. Then when its
time they go back to more deeper waters.

6. The food that narwhals eat
• Scientist can’t tell
exactly what narwhals
eat, but this what they
think they eat:
– Squid
– Flatfish
– Greenland halibut

7. Are Narwhals endangered?
• No, narwhals are not
endangered, but they
are hunted by polar
bears, walruses, killer
whales, and people.
There are over 4,000
of them so they are
not yet endangered.

8. Some Final Facts and a Video
• Narwhals are also called Monodon monoceros,
which is a more fancy, scientific word for
narwhals
• Narwhals really have two teeth but you can’t
really see the second one at all times
• Arctic hunters usually eat the narwhal’s skin and
use the bones for tools
• This is a video on the sound of narwhals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUXE6DRt6H0

9. Bibliography
• Narwhals. Discovery Communications,
2013. Web. 13 Dec. 2012
• Narwhals. National Geographic society,
1996-2013. Web. 14 Dec. 2012.
• Fetzer, Scott. "Narwhal." World Book. N
ed. 2001. 21. Print.

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