Blue Whale Facts

• Blue Whale facts tell us that these are the largest mammals to live on the earth.

• Blue Whales live in pods, which are groups.

• Blue Whales have two blowholes, while most whales only have one.

• A Blue Whale eats plankton and krill.

• Blue Whales have throat groves which allow them to open their mouths very wide.

• A Blue Whale can grow to be eighty to one hundred feet long.

• Blue Whales weigh around 120 tons.

• Blue Whale facts show us that females are larger than males.

• The largest female Blue Whale ever recorded weighed 174 tons and was 94 feet long.

• The heart of a Blue Whale weighs one hundred pounds.

• A Blue Whale contains fourteen thousand pounds of blood.

• Scientists tell us that the aorta on a Blue Whale is so large that a human being could crawl through it.

• Blue Whales are the loudest creature to ever live on earth. They call one another at levels of 188 decibels. To put that in perspective, any sound over 120 decibels is painful to human ears.

• Blue Whales can dive for as long as an hour at a time.

• A Blue Whale can live thirty to forty years.

• A Blue Whale is really bluish-gray with whitish-gray spots.

• A Blue Whale’s stomach is whitish-yellow.

• Blue Whale facts indicate that there are now only 10,000 to 14,000 Blue Whales left in the world.

• It is illegal to kill a Blue Whale.

• A Blue Whale breathes one to four times a minute when they are resting, and five to twelve times a minute when they are diving.

• Blue Whales have 8-foot long flippers and 25-foot long flukes.

• Blue Whales eat plankton and krill.

• Blue Whales have 320 pairs of baleen plates.

• A baleen plate on a Blue Whale is 39 inches long, 21 inches wide, and weighs 200 lbs.

• A Blue Whale swims 1-4 mph when feeding, 20 mph when traveling, and can hit a burst of speed around 30 mph when it is fleeing danger.

• Blue Whale Facts show us they breed and reproduce in the winter in warm waters.

• A Blue Whale’s gestation period is one year.

• A Blue Whale calf is born tail first and it instinctively swims to the surface to breathe within its first ten seconds of life.

• Blue Whale calves weigh six to eight tons when they are born. They are twenty-five feet long.

• Blue Whale calves drink up to 200 pounds of milk every day.

• The only threats to a Blue Whale are human beings and packs of Killer Whales.