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    Whale Project - 22.11.2019

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    Blue whales are the largest animals to ever live on Earth. They can grow over 30 meters long and weigh over 130,000 kilograms. Despite their immense size, blue whales feed on small shrimp-like krill. They follow seasonal migration patterns, traveling to warmer waters to mate and give birth to calves that weigh 4,000 kilograms at birth. Once heavily hunted, blue whales are now endangered with only an estimated 5,000 to 12,000 remaining worldwide.

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    Blue whales are the largest animals to ever live on Earth. They can grow over 30 meters long and weigh over 130,000 kilograms. Despite their immense size, blue whales feed on small shrimp-like krill. They follow seasonal migration patterns, traveling to warmer waters to mate and give birth to calves that weigh 4,000 kilograms at birth. Once heavily hunted, blue whales are now endangered with only an estimated 5,000 to 12,000 remaining worldwide.

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    Blue whales are the largest animals to ever live on Earth. They can grow over 30 meters long and weigh over 130,000 kilograms. Despite their immense size, blue whales feed on small shrimp-like krill. They follow seasonal migration patterns, traveling to warmer waters to mate and give birth to calves that weigh 4,000 kilograms at birth. Once heavily hunted, blue whales are now endangered with only an estimated 5,000 to 12,000 remaining worldwide.

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    Whale Project - 22.11.2019

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    Blue whales are the largest animals to ever live on Earth. They can grow over 30 meters long and weigh over 130,000 kilograms. Despite their immense size, blue whales feed on small shrimp-like krill. They follow seasonal migration patterns, traveling to warmer waters to mate and give birth to calves that weigh 4,000 kilograms at birth. Once heavily hunted, blue whales are now endangered with only an estimated 5,000 to 12,000 remaining worldwide.

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    TITLE:Blue Whale

    CLASSIFICATION: an endangered mammal, estimated5,000 to 12,000 blue whales left,


    found in every continent but Antarctica,

    DESCRIPTION THE LARGEST ANIMAL TO LIVE, CAN GROW TO OVER 30m (3 buses) LONG & weigh
    MORE THAN 130,000Kg (heavier than 3 lorries) much everything about the blue whale is massive. It’s
    tongue weighs as much as an elephant, its heart is the size of a car and its blood vessels are so wide you
    could swim through them!

    DYNAMICS: usually swims alone or in groups of two to four. But in areas where there’s lots of food
    available, as many as 60 whales may come together. Despite there size they feed on small shrimps,

    Habitat
    Blue whales can be found in all our planet’s oceans, except the Arctic, alone or in groups of two to four.
    But in areas where there’s lots of food available, as many as 60 whales may come together.

    OFFSPRING: Females give birth every two to three years to one calf. These awesome aquatic
    animals follow a seasonal migration pattern. They travel to warmer, tropical waters to mate and give
    birth. At birth, blue whale calves measure around 8m long and weigh a massive 4,000kg! They grow
    quickly, too – for seven to eight months, these bulky babies suckle on their mother’s rich, fatty milk, and
    gain around 90kg each day

    Lifespan (in wild): 80-90 years

    Weight: More than 130,000kg

    Body size: 30m long

    Diet: Carnivore

    Habitat: Ocean
    Despite their humongous size, blue whales eat tiny shrimp-like crustaceans called krill. But they shift a fair few of these seafood snacks – up to
    40 million each day, in fact!

    To communicate with each other, blue whales make a series of super-loud vocal sounds. Their calls are the loudest of any creature on the
    planet, in fact, and can be heard underwater for hundreds of kilometers.

    These awesome aquatic animals follow a seasonal migration pattern. During the feeding season, they fill up on krill in cold polar waters. They
    then travel to warmer, tropical waters to mate and give birth.
    At birth, blue whale calves measure around 8m long and weigh a massive 4,000kg! They grow quickly, too – for seven to eight months, these
    bulky babies suckle on their mother’s rich, fatty milk, and gain around 90kg each day!

    Sadly, in the late 19th early 20th century, blue whales were heavily hunted. And despite a global hunting ban in 1966, their population has
    declined by 70-90 percent in the past 150 years. With only 10,000-25,000 left in the wild, these magnificence marine mammals are today

    classified as an endangered species.

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