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Blue Whales

The Blue Whale is the largest animal in the world and can weight from 100 – 160 tons. This large species of whale can be found in oceans worldwide, mainly in deep, open areas with cold waters. Hunted by whalers, the Blue Whale was once nearly driven to extinction and is still considered as endangered today. This category has questions about the Blue Whale’s appearance, diet, etc.

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What is the capacity of a 1 liter milk carton?

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What's the capacity of a small milk carton in liters

Is a whale a mammle?

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Yes, they are mammals. dolphins and porpoises are also mammals too

Which is bigger King Kong or blue whale?

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Blue whale, as King Kong is a fictional character, made for the movies.

What are 5 sentences about blue whales?

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1. Whales are very large animals that live in the ocean, but they are not fish! Millions of years ago, whales probably walked upon land. As many years passed, the whales changed. Their back legs disappeared and their front legs became flippers! Now they live in the ocean.

2.Whales are mammals, so they feed milk to their babies and breathe air.

They like each other and live in large groups called "herds." A baby whale is called a "calf."

Whales do not have gills, so they cannot breathe under water. They must come up to the surface of the water to get air. The air is breathed in and out through their "blowhole," which is on their back.

When whales sleep, they stay at the top of the water, with their blowhole above the surface. Sometimes, a whale will swim up to the surface of the water and quickly blow air out of their blowhole, making a fountain of watery mist, called a "blow."

3.There are two different kinds of whales, the baleen and the toothed whale.

Baleen whales are also called "toothless" whales. Instead of teeth, they have plates made of baleen in their jaws. Baleen is a very hard and strong substance, much like the material that makes animals' horns. Baleen is also called "whalebone."

4. he baleen plates grow from the whales' upper jawbones. They are from two to 12 feet long and they hang down in stringy pieces. Sea water passes through the baleen and the whales' food gets caught. A kind of plankton called krill is what the baleen whale eats. The biggest baleen whales eat as much as two tons of krill each day!

There are many kinds of baleen whales, including blue, bowhead, Bryde's, fin, gray, humpback, minke, right and sei. The blue whale is the largest, often reaching 100 feet in length. They are the largest animals that have ever lived upon the earth. They are even larger than dinosaurs! Humpback whales are also big, weighing up to 45 tons.

Baleen whales have two nostrils, or blowholes.

5. Toothed whales have teeth instead of baleen. They include the beluga or white, bottlenose, narwhal, pilot and sperm whales. Dolphins are toothed whales. The famous "killer whale," is really a large dolphin, and they can grow up to 30 feet in length.

Toothed whales eat fish and plants. They have one nostril, or blowhole.

6.Whales swim by moving their tails up and down and using their flippers, which also help them to turn. Some whales, such as the sei, can swim more than 30 miles per hour.

Flippers of the humpback whale can be as long as 15 feet.

All whales are very noisy. They moan, groan, squeak and sigh to talk to each other. These underwater sounds can travel great distances. Whale are the loudest animals in the world.

7.Whales "migrate" further than any other animal. Migrating means to move from one area to another.

In the warm summer months, whales feast to build up their blubber and other fat reserves. Then, as the weather and water begin to cool when winter approaches, the whales begin their migration to warmer places. They do not stop to eat, but swim almost constantly, stopping only to rest for short periods of time.

For example, gray whales spend the winter months, from December into February, in the warm water of the Pacific Ocean near Baja California, Mexico. In mid-February they begin to swim north to the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea and the western part of the Beaufort Sea. They will stay in one of those areas until October, when they start the long swim back to the warmer Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico.

Sometimes, as the whales are migrating, they swim very close to the shore and can be seen "blowing" and jumping out of the water. This jumping is called "breaching." Whale watching is popular in many coastal areas.

Are blue whales wild or tame?

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A walrus is a wild animal. Any animal is a wild animal. Even if kept in captivity, any animal can strike at any moment.

Can a blue whale swallow a grapefruit?

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Yes, this is the largest thing a blue whale can swallow. It's throat is almost exactly the same diameter as its belly button, which is about the size of a salad plate

Do blue whales digest?

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At what water depth does the blue whales live?

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Most whales swim at the surface of the water since they're mammals and need to breathe air. Therefore, they don't go very deep into the ocean, since there really isn't any reason to. If they can get the majority of their food, krill, close to the surface, then there isn't a reason to go into deep water. Also, when a whale is sleeping, they are only half asleep, since they need to be awake enough to come up for air. Therefore, here they would also swim close to the surface to make it easier to surface for air. For exact numbers, the whale will go down to 1164 feet from the surface, or 0.2 miles, which isn't very big, considering the depth of the ocean. So a whale would live between the surface and 0.2 miles from the surface, normally.

Where does the bule whale live?

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There is no such thing as "The Baleen Whale." There are toothed whales and baleen whales. Toothed whales have teeth in their mouthes and baleen whales have baleen in their mouths. Baleen is a type of strainer. A Baleen whale eats by taking a lot of water and food in its mouth and forcing the water back out through the Baleen and eating the food. A number of different types of Baleen whales exist from the gigantic blue whales to intermediate sized right whales to the small Sei whales. A number of them eat in Arctic or Antarctic waters or in cold northern or southern waters. That is where they find food the easiest. In winter they come closer to the equator to have their babies and to breed.

How many whales live in the atlantis ocean?

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I take it you are asking how many whales live in the Atlantic Ocean, and there are about ten thousand. Not as many as there used, to be, because of whaling, but the number is rising as less and less countries kill whales.

What do people use the blue whales blubber?

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In some countries they use it in lip sticks and other make up.

Where do blue whales find their food?

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Its favorite food is "Krill". An Adult blue whale can kill upto 40 million krill per day. They can eat nearly 3500 kilograms of krill in a single day. They need nearly 1.5 million kilocalories of energy per day and so, they nearly eat nonstop. Small fish, crustaceans and squids too get caught when they trap krill in their mouth.

They scoop up large quantities of water into their mouth along with krill and other small aquatic creatures and then filters and push the water out. All remaining animals are swallowed.

Why are whales and barnacles buddies?

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They aren't symbiotic : the barnacles (crustaceans related to crabs) are parasites on the whale's skin, and will also attach to boats, docks, and other marine locations.

What do Humboldt Penguins Eat?

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Sardines & Anchovies

Do blue whales sleep on the bottom of the ocean?

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Whales have a unique respiratory system that lets them spend long periods of time (sometimes 30 minutes or longer) underwater, without taking in any oxygen, but they don't snore.

What organisms interact with the blue whale in its ecosystem?

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nothing really hunts the blue whale the only organism to really do damage to the blue whale is humans from when we use to hunt them for their oil but that was stopped 5 decades ago.

Where can you get blue baffalo food at?

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You can find buffaloes in central United States in great plain states such as Nebraska.

What sounds does the blue whale make?

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it's unknown though but research has shown that they make sounds to communicate & warn!!! just like elephants do... they also make that sound to call a mate and to communicate like said above.

What is a blue whale height and weight?

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For male adults, it is 43 feet and weighing around 26 tons. For female adults, it is 41 feet and weighing around 24-25 tons. For newborns, it is 15 feet and weighing around 1,500 pounds.

What is gestation period of a blue whale?

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The gestation period is around 10 to 12 months. Females typically give birth to one calf every two to three years at the start of winter. The new born is 2.5 metric tons heavy and is around 7 meters long at birth. He drinks nearly 400 liters of milk every day and gains around 100 kilos of weight almost every day when he grows.

How big is the largest blue whale on record?

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Blue Whales are the largest known living animal species on earth. Animals that were as large as 27 meters in length (nearly 90 feet) and weighing over 170 tonnes have been recorded. Since these animals were measured and weighed after they were cut up into manageable pieces, the actual size and weight could be even more

Why cant the blue whale breathe under water?

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Blue whales are mammals. They breathe air with lungs, pretty much just like you and I.

When they dive, they hold their breath.

Why is the blue whale called the blue whale?

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It's blue. It is called the Blue Whale because it is a slight blue couler. because earlier it was found that their body colour resemble with blue coloured sulphates which is present at the bootom of the sea, we can also say that they are blue in blue in colour thats why