Facts on Blue Whales?

Question

Any kind of fact on Blue Whales

Such as its tongue weighing as much as an elphant.

Tail as wide as an plane wings.

And so forth.

Answer 1

Blue whales are the loudest living things on Earth.

Each strand of baleen is about 1 metre long.

Though they don't have the longest flippers in the whale world, they can be 3-4 metres long.

The lung compacity of the blue whale is 5,000 litres!

In short bursts, blue whales can swim up to 30mph.

Blue whales have been known to kill attacking sharks and orcas with a slap of their tail or flipper.

When fully expanded, a blue whale's mouth can hold 90 tonnes of water, krill.

A blue whale cannot swallow anything larger than a beachball, so don't get too scared about being accidentally eaten.

Females are larger than males, as is the case with most baleen whales.

Answer 2

Blue whales can eat 4-6 tons of krill (little crustaceans that look like shrimp) each day. They take in as much as 50 tons of water in a single gulp  ... but after the filtering they probably only get about 50 pounds. (So they have a lot of gulping to do.)

A blue whale mother gives milk that is 40-50% butterfat. A cow gives milk that's only 6-8 percent. A whale calf will gain 200 pounds a day when nursing.

Full grown Blue whales can be over 100 feet long and weigh 150 tons.

A newborn whale is about 24 feet long and weighs 6-8 tons. (that's about the same size as full grown male Orca!)

A whale's baleen (the brushy plates in the mouth used to filter water to get the food out) is made of keratin, the same substance that makes up our hair and fingernails.

A whale can exhale faster than we can sneeze - at 75-125 miles per hour. The blow of a blue whale can be over 30 feet high.

Blue whales sing and communicate underwater and are believed to be the loudest animals, creating sounds of 188 decibels that travel thousands of miles underwater.

The only natural predators of Blue Whales are Orcas (Killer Whales) and Sharks which usually go after the calves and don't bother the larger whales.

Blue whales can cross breed with Fin Whales.

A blue whale's heart is as big as a Volkswagen Beetle.