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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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How many cows would it take to equal the gross weight of one blue whale?
It depends on the weight of the cows in question, and the weight of the whale itself. The average adult blue whale weighs about 180 tons. So, if the cows have an average weight of 1,000 lbs, then it would take 403.2 of them to equal the gross weight of a Blue Whale.
How do whales sleep under water?
Dolphin's actually have a unique way of sleeping; they sleep with one half of their brain at a time while the other have controls their swimming and breathing. Once one half of the brain gets the amount of sleep it needs, it switches and the other half of the brain sleeps while the newly rested half takes over control of breathing and swimming. Very interesting stuff that I learned in Biopsychology recently.
Has there anything bigger than a blue whale?
No other animal has ever existed that is bigger than the blue whale. It is by far the largest animal ever known to exist.
The largest known animal ever to have existed is the blue whale, an endangered species whose official record length is 33.58 m (110 ft 2 in), and weight 190 metric tons (210 short tons) (for a pregnant female).[9] The largest living land animals by mass are male (bull) African Bush Elephants (Savannah Elephants or Bush Elephants); one known example weighed roughly 12 t (13 short tons). Some extinct land animals, including many dinosaurs, were much larger still. A 1985 study concluded that the theoretical limit for land-dwelling animals based on known types of body plans was between 100 and 1000 metric tons.[10] The organism sizes listed are frequently considered "outsized" and are not in the normal (average) size range for the respective species.
However, if you want to compare all living things, such as plants, plants win hands down.....
The aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) forms large stands of genetically identical trees (technically, stems) connected by a single underground root system. These trees form through root sprouts coming off an original parent tree, though the root system may not remain a single unit in all specimens. The largest known fully connected aspen is a grove in Utah nicknamed Pando, and some experts call it the largest organism in the world,[1] by mass or volume.[2] It covers 0.43 km2 (106 acres) and is estimated to weigh 6,000 metric tons (6,600 short tons).[3]
A giant Armillaria solidipes fungus, a species of honey mushroom in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon, was found to span 8.9 km2 (2,200 acres),[4] which would make it the largest organism by area. Whether or not this is an individual organism is disputed: some tests have indicated that they have the same genetic makeup,[5] but unless its mycelia are fully connected, it is a clonal colony of numerous smaller individuals. Another clonal colony that rivals the Armillaria and the Populuscolonies in size is a strand of the giant marine plant, Posidonia oceanica, discovered in the Mediterranean near the Balearic Islands. It covers a band roughly 8 km (5.0 mi) in length.[6]
The world's largest single stem tree, by volume, is the General Sherman tree, a Giant Sequoia with a volume of 1,487 m3 (52,500 cu ft).[7] This tree stands 83.8 m (275 ft) tall and the trunk alone is estimated to weigh over 1,800 t (2,000 short tons). The largest single-stem tree ever measured was the Lindsey creek tree, a Coast Redwood with a minimum trunk volume of over 2,500 m3 (88,000 cu ft) and a mass of over 3,300 metric tons (3,600 short tons). It fell over during a storm in 1905.[8]
Also, some people like to argue that the Great Barrier Reef is the largest living thing. Though, this is not actually true. The Great Barrier Reef is actually a series of individual reefs that are connected forming the Great Barrier Reef (Much like a forest.). So, in such a case then you could say that The Taiga Forest is actually the largest living thing...... Here are some interesting facts:
Taiga (pronounced /ˈtaɪɡə/; Russian: тайга; IPA: [taɪɡˈa]; from Turkic[1] or Mongolian), also known as the boreal forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests.
Taiga is the world's largest terrestrial biome. In North America it covers most of inland Canada and Alaska as well as parts of the extreme northern continental United States and is known as the Northwoods.[2] It also covers most of Sweden, Finland, much of Norway, much of Russia (especially Siberia), northern Kazakhstan, northern Mongolia, and northern Japan (on the island of Hokkaidō).
The term "boreal forest" is sometimes, particularly in Canada, used to refer to the more southerly part of the biome, while the term taiga is often used to describe the more barren areas of the northernmost part of the taiga approaching the tree line.
(Above: The Taiga Forest)
Also if you REALLY REALLY want to continue making these type of arguments. Then Earth would be the correct answer for the largest living thing. OR.... The Sun........ The Solar System......... The Galaxy......................... The Universe.................................................................... The Outer Dimensions (According to Steven Hawkings) ...........................................................................................................
OR if you really want to push it, GOD or GODS (Which ever you prefer.) :)
How many elephants can stand on a blue whale's tongue?
25 elephants to make a blue whale witch is about 200000 lbs
How many calves do blue whales have?
Gestation in Sperm Whale females lasts about 14 to 16 months. A sigle calf is produced at the end of gestation. Lactation proceeds for 19 to 42 months, but calves may suckle up to 13 years. Calves can suckle from females other than their mothers. Females generally have birth intervals of three to six years between calf birth.
they sneak up on sea lions in groups and chase after fish. they also have a little sensor that sends out and if it bounds off of something they no its a fish or squid and chases it, they do this because they can't hear underwater and they don't have good vision.
Whale sharks do not have ears for hearing. The whale sharks uses its senses to feel vibrations in the water.
Blue Whales are very big and I believe that they can be blue or white.
Dinosaurs bigger than blue whales?
none and no buts but maybe because there might be more undiscovered large dinosaurs
What animals live in areas represented by blue on a map?
um Goose and Otter ,Whales, Turtles and sea cows and thats it!
Why are blue whales becoming extinct?
Blue Whale populations have declined significantly due to extensive and uncontrolled hunting. Blue whale hunting was banned in 1966 by the International Whaling Commission. But, by 1970 330,000 blue whales had been caught & killed in the Antarctic, 33,000 in the rest of the Southern Hemisphere, 8,200 in the North Pacific, and 7,000 in the North Atlantic. The largest original population, in the Antarctic, had been reduced to 0.15% its original count.
Now that the hunting of these giant animals is banned, their numbers has started to increase and I don't think they will go extinct.
Which country does the blue whale live in?
Blue Whales can be found in almost every sea and ocean in the world. They were the most widely spread whale species until Man started hunting them down. They were once in numbers of around 200,000 or more and now there are only 20,000 or so animals left in the wild.
They can be found in areas that are abundant in "Krill" their favorite prey species.
They don't live in family groups. They are solitary animals. They are known to be along one or two individuals at most and that too only for short periods of time.
How many blowholes does a whale have?
Usually they have one
Baleen whales have two blowholes. Toothed whales have only one.
What zone of the ocean does a blue whale live in?
Blue Whales can be found in almost every sea and ocean in the world. They were the most widely spread whale species until Man started hunting them down. They were once in numbers of around 200,000 or more and now there are only 20,000 or so animals left in the wild.
They can be found in areas that are abundant in "Krill" their favorite prey species.
They don't live in family groups. They are solitary animals. They are known to be along one or two individuals at most and that too only for short periods of time.
they look like a blue whale they can grow up to 150 tons and they are huge
The blue whale is dark blue in color and has a dorsal fin. It is toothless and has fringed whalebone plates in its mouth, which act as a food strainer.
What is a blue whales niche in its ecosystem?
it is the the whole ocean except for polar waters! Also it has producers, consumers, scavengers, decomposers, prey, top predator, and climate.
the producer: phytoplanton
the consumer: zooplanton
the prey: krill, small fish
the predator: Killer whale
Climate: it depends on season and location
Are blue whales baleen whales?
Yes, it is. it has baleen type of teeth (they are like many, many long tooth brush hairs used for combing out krill and plankton from the water).
hell no! Tuna are at the top of the marine food chain... things that eat krill are like smaller fish or whales... tuna eat other types of fish.
How big does a blue whale get?
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 are blue whales important?
Yes, whales are beneficial to the environment and they are also highly intelligent. Long ago whales were essential (also today) because they could feed hundreds of people. Their bones were used as weapons and their fat and blubber and skin used for clothing and warmth.
Why don't some turkeys have wattles?
To attract female turkeys. Believe it or not Tom Turkeys look the way they do because of evolution, manipulated by the sexual preferences of female turkeys. They prefer the really ugly Toms so by sexual selection the Toms just kept getting uglier and uglier.
