BLUE WHALE
Balaenoptera musculus
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived on Earth. It is also the loudest animal on Earth.
Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
Texas Status Endangered U.S. Status Endangered, Listed 6/02/1970
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Refer to the online version of The Mammals of Texas for additional details on the Blue Whale.
Blue Whale
Balaenoptera musculus
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The largest animal ever to have lived, the blue whale is a marvel of bone and blubber, blowhole and baleen-in immense proportions. Get up close with these graceful giants.
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The Blue Whale
The blue whale is the largest mammal, possibly the largest animal, to ever inhabit Planet Ocean. An average blue whale is between 23-24.
Blue Whales don't have fur they have smooth, bluish-gray skin. The skin is covered in oil. This causing them to move swiftly through the water at speeds reaching 30 miles per hour.
Blue Whale
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
a baleen whale, Balaenoptera musculus. Also called the sulphur-bottom whale and Sibbald's rorqual, it is the largest animal that has ever lived.
Blue Whale
The Blue Whale is the largest animal on Earth! They grow to be 80 feet long and weigh 120 to 150 tons (or over 300,000 pounds). Females are larger than males. Did you know that the heart of a blue whale weighs about 1,000 pounds?
Blue Whale - Balaenoptera musculus.
Photo courtesy NOAA Fisheries.
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is among the largest animals ever to have lived. Blue whales are baleen whales.
Blue whales were abundant in most oceans around the world until the beginning of the twentieth century. For the first 40 years of that century they were hunted by whalers almost to extinction.
Blue Whale
: Family Balaenopteridae : Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus)
Description.
BLUE WHALE
Although blue whales feed in deep water they are still mammals, and must come to the surface to breathe. They exhale air in a cloud of pressurized steam that rises straight up for about 20 feet.
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Blue whales comprised about 90% of the whaling industry's total catch during the early part of the 20th century, after the advent of harpoon cannons. In 1931 alone, almost 30 000 of these majestic creatures were killed.
Blue whales are found throughout the world's oceans. These gentle giants have grayish-blue skin with light spots.
RANGE:
Blue whales generally spend winters in temperate and subtropical zones, migrating toward the polar regions in spring and summer.
FOOD:
A blue whale can eat up to 7,715 pounds of krill (small shrimp-like organisms) per day! ...
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Scientific name: Balaenoptera musculus
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
National conservation status: Endangered ...
Blue Whale
A vulnerable underwater heavyweight
Common Name: Blue whale, Sibbald's rorqual, sulphur bottom whale; Baleine bleue, baleine d'Ostende, baleinoptère bleu, rorqual bleu, rorqual à ventre cannelé, rorqual de Sibbold (Fr); ...
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The giant of the ocean in all its majesty.
The Blue Whales
The Blue whale is, and always has been, the largest animal ever to exist on earth. This whale can grow to a length of 33m (110ft) and weigh 190 tonnes but on the average it is much smaller.
Blue whales, named for their bluish-gray coloration, are known for their immense size. Their coloration often includes grayish or whitish areas.
Blue whales feed almost exclusively on shrimplike crustaceans known as "krill". A blue whale may consume up to 5.5 - 6.4 metric tons (6 - 7 tons) of food per day during the summer feeding season.
The Blue Whale is extremely rare and was first placed on the endangered species list on June 2, 1970. They are severely depleted in all of the worlds oceans because of overfishing. Their meat, fat, oil and bones are used for many things.
Blue Whale
Order: Cetacea
Family: Balaenopteridae
Balaenoptera musculus - newborn just below adult; inset of tail fluke on diving
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Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest animal to have ever lived, being almost as big as a Boeing 737 and even larger than... More 21 Images 3 Videos ...
Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
Population: 10,000 to 25,000. Status: Endangered Species.
Trends: Increasing.
Blue Whale
North Atlantic population small and endangered and mostly further north. One seen on pelagic trip to Cashes Ledge. Two small seen on recent offshore pelagic.
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Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
The blue whale is classified as a member of the order Cetacea (Whales) and is a member of the family Balaenopteridae.
The Blue Whale is the largest living animal in the world!
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Blue whales are slate to grayish blue and mottled with lighter spots, particularly on the back and shoulders. The undersides often become covered with microorganisms, giving the belly a yellowish tinge.
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The blue whale is the biggest animal that ever lived. This huge mammal eats tiny food that it sieves through baleen.
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Blue whales reach sexual maturity at five years. After this time, a female blue whale can have a maximum of one calf every two years. This does not mean, however, that this is the reproductive rate.
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Balaenoptera musculus
One questionable stranding, Essex County, 1755. Recent near-shore records. Listed as "Endangered".
The blue whale is not only the largest living animal but probably the largest creature the world has ever known. The greatest recorded length for a blue whale is 33.
The blue whale is the record-holder, longer than the longest dinosaur, heavier than the most massive dinosaur.
A large blue whale may be over 100 feet long and weigh over 160 tons.
The Blue Whale is the largest known mammal that has ever lived and the largest living animal, measuring up to 30 metres (93 feet) in length and weighing 180 tons.
Loudest Animal
Blue whales' low-frequency pulses are as loud as 188 decibels-louder than a jet engine-and can be detected more than 500 miles away. On land, the loudest animals are howler monkeys, whose howl can be heard three miles away.
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Whale Strandings...Threats to Marine Mammals..
Most of today's largest animals are mammals, including the largest animal that has ever lived: the blue whale. This impressive creature can reach 110 feet in length and weigh over 200 tons.
The Finback (also called Finner and Fin Whale) is exceeded in size only by its cousin, the Blue Whale; both are baleen, or toothless, whales. Finbacks can reach a length of 80 feet and weigh as much as 80 tons.
They include the largest animal that has ever lived, the blue whale; the highly intelligent and communicative dolphins; the tusked narwhals and blind river dolphins and singing humpback whales " nearly eighty living species in all.
It belongs to the same genus as the Blue Whale B. musculus although it is much smaller at 9 metres and weighing 9 tons than the Blue Whale at up to 27 metres and 150 tons.
Mammals have a wide range of body sizes. The common shrew weighs only three grams, while the blue whale weighs 150 tons! We also vary in the way we get around: from flying, swimming, and running to swinging through trees and burrowing.
Brainier?
Carnivore. Fish, squid, seals, sea lions, penguins, dolphins, porpoises and large whales like the blue whale.
Predators and Threats
Humans, along with pollution and contamination.
They are fearsome predators that can kill a wide range of animals, such as Blue Whales, seals, sea turtles, squid, and fish. Fortunately, they do not seem to have a taste for people; there are no records of humans attacked by Killer Whales.
Toothed whales include dolphins, porpoises, belugas, narwhals, sperm whales, river dolphins, and beaked whales. Baleen whales are represented by 11 species, including the right whale, gray whale, blue whale, and humpback whale.
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Alarm snorts, moans, snores, hissing, and flute like sounds have also been heard. Research suggests that giraffes may communicate with infrasonic sound (as do elephants and blue whales) - which suggests that their social system may be more complex ...
The whale draws water into its mouth and then pushes it out through the baleen with its tongue. The baleen filters out krill and other plankton that the whale scrapes up with its tongue. Humpback whales, right whales, blue whales and gray whales are ...
 See also: Whale, Dolphin, Humpback, Elephant, Krill
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