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"Caught"/"killed"

Ywaz, you do need to realize that "catch" is the standard terminology used in all wildlife harvesting (which is what whaling is, Japanese pretensions notwithstanding). We don't speak about "killing" fish either. I appreciate that whales elicit a more emotional response, but when our articles on whaling overwhelmingly use "catch", this looks incongruous at the least. --Elmidae (talk · contribs)

Female weight gain of 4% per day mathematically impossible

In the article it states "Pregnant females gain roughly four percent of their body weight daily,[86] amounting to 60% of their overall body weight throughout summer foraging periods."

However, that is clearly not right, as this would mean that female whales approximately triple/quadruple their weight every month. You can see how that would lead to bizarre situations.

I am not aware of what this figure should be or what the author was thinking when writing this. Perhaps they meant eat 4% of body weight.

Please change "direction" to "direct"

In the section Parasites and Predators, the phrase "direction observations" was probably meant to be "direct observations" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joelgrimes (talk • contribs) 17:23, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit lock prevents correcting “This began to change in the mid-19th century which the develop harpoon that could be shot as a projectile” to (presumably) “This began to change in the mid-19th century with the development of harpoons that could be shot as projectiles”. 2603:800C:4040:F37:2D26:B29E:CDD6:FF0C (talk) 00:41, 26 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sleep

Can someone add a section about how Blue Whales sleep? Seems there's no mention of it anywhere in the article. Dionyseus (talk) 13:53, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]