Do Whales have Multiple Stomachs?

Question

Do certain (all?) whales have multiple stomachs? Just wanna know :)

Answer 1

As far as I've read, no, they only have one...but they really only need one.

it takes 2200 lbs. of food to fill a blue whale's stomach

& 660 lbs. to fill a gray whale's stomach.

Answer 2

There are two main types of whale, toothed and baleen.  Toothed whale, like orca have one stomach.  Baleen whales, like the right whale, have multiple chamber stomach, much like ungulates, deer.

http://graysreef.noaa.gov/whalebook/anat...

Answer 3

only 1 indeed

Answer 4

The cetaceans, all of them, evolved from the two-toed ungulates, like cows, camels and hippos, and they have the same kind of multiple chambered stomachs that cows, camels and hippos have.

The division of the cetaceans into toothed whales (Odontocetes) and baleen whales (Mystecetes) may soon undergo a major overhaul since DNA evidence shows that the giant sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) which has teeth, is much more closely related to the baleen whales than it is to any other toothed whale.