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 * Blue Whale**



The blue whale is the most largest animal and their tongues alone can weigh as much as an elephant and their hearts, as much as an automobile. The largest group of them are off the coast of california during the summer. When a whale exhales the spray from its blowhole can reach about 30 feet. The blue whale can eat up to 4 to 8 tons of krill per day.

What is the length and weight of a blue whale? The length of a blue whale is 100 feet and the weight is 200 tons.

What are threats to blue whales? Threats to a blue whale are ship strikes and pollution because they are exposed to industrial chemicals. Also from the entanglement in fishing nets and illegal whaling. []

Where do Blue whales live? They live mostly in every ocean, most live in the southern hemisphere. Also you can see them "in the Gulf of California in Mexico and in the Gulf of St.Lawerence in Canada and also regions of the Indian ocean". In the summer they are in polar waters but they migrate to the equator as winter arrives.

Blue whale calves? The blue whale calves are up to 3 tons and are 25 feet. To nurse a blue whale calf it is about 40 gallons of fat rich milk and grow 200 pounds a day. []

What do Blue Whales eat? Blue Whales eat krill which is a tiny shrimp they also eat plankton and other fish. " It takes abbout 8,000 pounds of fresh seafood to keep a Blue Whale well fed. Blue whales use a special filter on their mouths called a Baleen. []