The Largest Animal On Earth
The Largest Animal On Earth
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2. It lives in the cold temperate waters.They migrate into the Northern hemisphere in the Spring and Summer.In Fall and Winter they migrate back to temperate waters.
3. The Blue Whale is a bluish gray animal that is the largest mammal in the world. The Blue Whale can grow up to lengths of 110 feet long. Most of them grow up to 80 to 90 feet long.
4. The Blue Whale eats up to 2,200 pounds of shrimp and krill almost everyday.
5. The Blue Whale lives in the deepest parts of earth’s oceans.
6. The average adult blue whale is almost as long as a Boeing 737. Their tongues alone can weigh as much as an elephant and their hearts as much as an automobile.
7. Blue whales almost certainly live longer than 50 years, and could possibly achieve maximum life spans of up to 90-100 years.
8. Blue whales are found in all oceans of the world.
9. Most blue whale populations are believed to be migratory and to travel thousands of miles a year. Travel speeds are around 12 mph (19.3 km/hr) but can increase to speeds of 30 mph (43.8 km/hr) when alarmed.
10. The Santa Barbara Channel hosts the largest seasonal population of blue whales on the planet.
11. One of the largest animals in the world actually feeds on one of the smallest. Blue whales feed primarily on tiny shrimp-like animals called krill.
12. When a blue whale exhales it can blow a spout approximately 30 feet high.
13. The blue whale makes deep rumbling sounds that can be described as grunts, hums and moans. These sounds are used to communicate with other blue whales, and can be heard over hundreds of miles.
14. The female, which is larger than the male, gives birth to a calf that averages 25 feet in length and weighs about 2 tons. The calf drinks about 106 gallons of milk every day.
15. An average adult has almost 2,500 gallons of blood and burns up to 3 million calories a day. Its heart weighs more than a ton and the tongue alone weighs about 2 tons!
16. Linnaeus must have had his tongue in his cheek when he gave this species the Latin name "musculus," which means "little mouse."
17. As the common name indicates, the upper parts of the body are mottled blue-gray. The undersides are whitish or light yellow. This whale has a relatively small dorsal fin and black baleen plates.
18. The straight, column-like water spout can reach 20 feet into the air. Speeds of up to 23 miles per hour (20 knots) have been recorded for the blue Whale.
19. A single calf is born after a gestation period of one year.
20. Blue Whales are longer than a basketball court.
21. The length of a Blue Whale is equivalent to two bumper-to-bumper school buses.
22. Blue Whales have a mouth big enough to hold 100 people.
23. Blue Whales have no teeth - but eat 4 ton of seafood a day, the equivalent of 64,000 hamburgers.
24. Blue Whales can weigh up to 200 tons - ie heavier than 25 fully-grown Asian elephants combined.
25. A Blue Whale’s heart is the size of a small car.
26. A Blue Whale’s arteries are so big that a human could crawl though them.
27. The Blue Whale is one of the loudest creatures on the planet.
28. The Blue Whale call is louder than a jet engine.
Blue Whale - 188 decibels
Jet engine - 140 decibels
29. Blue Whales can communicate with other whales up to 1,600 kilometres away.
30. Blue Whales dive for 10 to 20-minute intervals.
31. Blue Whales feed at depths of up to 100 metres.
32. Blue Whales spend almost all of their lives underwater and surface for only seconds at a time to fill their bathtub sized lungs.
33. Blue Whales cruise at about 10 kilometres an hour.
34. If alarmed, Blue Whales can reach speeds of 32 kilometres an hour.
35. Blue Whales can travel 160 kilometres in one day.
36. Blue Whales release a 10 metres spray from their blowhole taller than a two-story building.
37. Every Blue Whale is born with dorsal patterns, or distinct markings on their back like a fingerprint that never changes. Marine Biologists use these markings to identify them.
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