Blue Whales
The biggest animal in the world.
By Ty le r Jack so n Hammet t Or y
Life Cycle
A calf is a baby whale
A blue Whale calf is 20.5 to 24.5 feet long
A blue whale calf is fed milk from it’s mother
A Blue Whale calf gains about 200 pounds a day
Blue whale calfs are the biggest kink of baby in the history
of life on earth
A blue Whale calf is a big as a full grown elephant
Blue Whales can live up to 70 years old
Life Cycle Continued
A Blue Whale has a calf every 2 to 3 years
A Blue Whale can grow up to 90 feet long
A blue Whale’s ancestors had hind legs and Blue whales
are sometimes still born with them.
Whale milk is 40 to 50 percent fat
Population
Blue Whales have been hunted and that
made there population drop from 300,000
to 400,000 down to about 15,000. After
we noticed that we had killed a ton of
Whales, the world has banned whaling.
Now about 3,000 to 4,000 blue whales in
the northern hemisphere and 5,000 to
10,000 in the south.
How Long Has It Been Around?
Blue Whales Have been around for about 50
million years
Blue Whales are the biggest animal in history
Blue Whales evolved from the same primitive
group as deers and cows
Diet
Blue Whales eat krill for
food. They open there
mouth and a stiff thing
called baleen filters the
water and traps the
krill and the blue Whale
eats it. There can be up
to 400 baleen plates
hanging down from a
Blue Whale’s mouth.
A Blue Whale eats up to 6,000 pounds of krill a day
Blue Whales calls
A Blue whale uses
echolocation to know
whats ahead.
A Blue whales call
can be heard across a
ocean.
A Blue Whale makes
two different calls.
The A and B
The A call may be for companionship.
A Blue Whale can dive up to 350 feet for up to one
hour
Where They live
Blue Whales are found in every ocean.
Blue Whale Size
The Blue Whale is the mammal ever.
Adaptations
Blue Whales are warm blooded.
Blue Whales have two blow holes.
Blue Whales have two flukes,one eye,baleen
plates,and flippers.
Blue Whales flippers are long and thin.
Blue Whales have no teeth.
Blue Whales weigh at least 220,000 pounds.
Adaptations Continued
Blue Whales can be as long as 6 cars.
Blue Whales empty out and refill 90% of there
air in there lungs when they breath.
A whales fluke has no bone.
A small child could crawl through a Blue Whales
blood stream.
Sources
Blue Whales by John F. Prevost
Blue whales up close by Jody Sullivan Rake
listography.com
richard-seaman.com
scubadiving.com
mathworks.com