Blue Whale Facts
On this page are some
interesting blue
whale facts.
What animal....
* can hold its breath for almost two hours?
* has skin that can be one foot thick?
* looks like a fish, but isn't a fish?
* can be over 100 feet long?
* weigh as much as 25 elephants?
* has a heart the size of a small automobile?
The Blue Whale!
* Blue whales are the largest animals that have ever lived on the Earth including dinosaurs!
Blue Whale Size Comparison
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* Blue Whales can weigh up to 150 tons!
* It is only possible to grow so large in the water, because in the water things "weigh" less than on the land thanks to water's boyancy.
* If a blue whale, or any other large whale, got beached they could die just because their inner organs would get crushed under their own body weight.
* It is only possible to grow so large in the water, because in the water things "weigh" less than on the land thanks to water's boyancy.
* If a blue whale, or any other large whale, got beached they could die just because their inner organs would get crushed under their own body weight.
* Blue whales
eat about four tons of krill
every day during the
summer, and almost nothing during the winter.
* Blue whales cruise-feed. They swim through a krill swarm with their mouths open.
* They can make a very loud noise measuring 180 decibles.
* The heart of a resting blue whale beats 10 times slower than the heart of a human.
* Blue whale baby is seven metres long and weighs three tons. It drinks 350 litres milk a day.
* Before the whaling began, there were 250,000 blue whales. Today there are 14,000 .
* Blue whales cruise-feed. They swim through a krill swarm with their mouths open.
* They can make a very loud noise measuring 180 decibles.
* The heart of a resting blue whale beats 10 times slower than the heart of a human.
* Blue whale baby is seven metres long and weighs three tons. It drinks 350 litres milk a day.
* Before the whaling began, there were 250,000 blue whales. Today there are 14,000 .
Click here to watch an awesome Blue Whale video depicting a Blue Whale in natural habitat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5MPbZZ4xJA
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