Blue Whale

 

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The Blue Whale

 

bwhale.gif (35458 bytes) The Blue Whale eats plantain and zoo plantain. It eats by baleen (they hang by the top of its mouth) Baleen is like lots of fingernails in your mouth. They also eat small fish and krill. A Blue Whale gives a piggy back ride to it’s calf (all baby whales are calves).
The Blue Whale eats plantain and zoo plantain. It eats by baleen (they hang by the top of its mouth) Baleen is like lots of fingernails in your mouth. They also eat small fish and krill. A Blue Whale gives a piggy back ride to it’s calf (all baby whales are calves)

The Blue Whale only have one calf every two to three years. A calf must swim to the surface after its first breath. The calf drinks the mother’s milk for about a year. Twins are rare.

The Blue Whale can live up to 80 some years old but the oldest Blue Whale is 90 years old. Blue Whale’s may reach up to 29 meters long (95feet) in length ; mature females are slightly longer than mature males.

The Blue Whale lives in most oceans of the world. Traveling from the Tropics to the winter Tropics that is near. The Blue Whale’s color is a grayish bluish. They are the largest mammals in the world. The Blue Whale is a baleen whale. Young nurse for 7-8 months, gaining as much as 90kg (200lb) per a day. Some interesting facts is the Blue Whale is the largest creature to inhabit the earth (95feet). They have 270-390 baleen plates.