The Pet Tree House - Where Pets Are Family Too : Narwhals inspired many a seafaring legend and their tusks were once sold as unicorn horns The Pet Tree House - Where Pets Are Family Too : Narwhals inspired many a seafaring legend and their tusks were once sold as unicorn horns

Thursday, October 14, 2021

Narwhals inspired many a seafaring legend and their tusks were once sold as unicorn horns


With an enormous spiralled tusk protruding from their head you’re not going to mistake a male narwhal if you see one, and you won’t be surprised to learn that they’re known as the unicorns of the sea.

What doe a narwhal look like?

The most obvious thing to say is that males have a massive tusk which can grow up to 10 feet long. Most females don’t have a tusk and they look a bit like mottled grey beluga whales. Narwhals have a blotchy sausage-shaped body, a rounded head with no beak, a ridge on their backs rather than a fin and short blunt flippers with upcurled edges. They have odd-shaped tail flukes that look as though they have been put on backwards.

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