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    Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth, growing up to 100 feet long and weighing over 200 tons. They live in all the world's oceans and migrate between polar feeding grounds, where they consume around 4 tons of krill per day, and tropical breeding grounds. Blue whales communicate in pods using extremely loud vocalizations and follow yearly migration patterns between feeding and breeding areas.

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    Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth, growing up to 100 feet long and weighing over 200 tons. They live in all the world's oceans and migrate between polar feeding grounds, where they consume around 4 tons of krill per day, and tropical breeding grounds. Blue whales communicate in pods using extremely loud vocalizations and follow yearly migration patterns between feeding and breeding areas.

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    Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth, growing up to 100 feet long and weighing over 200 tons. They live in all the world's oceans and migrate between polar feeding grounds, where they consume around 4 tons of krill per day, and tropical breeding grounds. Blue whales communicate in pods using extremely loud vocalizations and follow yearly migration patterns between feeding and breeding areas.

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    Blue Whale

    Amazing Facts

    By Ruben Cantoni
    Contents

    Habitat and Food 2

    Features of Blue Whales 3

    Social Behavior and Migration 4

    5
    Fact Sheet
    Habitat and Food
    Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) are the Some live in the northern Pacific and Atlantic.
    largest animals ever known to have lived on Others live around Antarctica. Many blue
    Earth and they get the name from their gray to whales migrate during the year. For example, in
    blue coloration. These magnificent marine the summer they may feed in cold waters near
    mammals rule the oceans at up to 100 feet long the poles. Then, in the winter they may move to
    and upwards of 200 tons. Their tongues alone warmer waters to mate. Blue whales reach
    can weigh as much as an elephant. Their hearts, these mind-boggling dimensions on a diet
    as much as an automobile. composed nearly exclusively of tiny shrimplike
    animals called krill. During certain times of the
    WHERE AND DIET year, a single adult blue whale consumes about
    Blue whales are found in all the world’s oceans. 4 tons of krill a day.

    Krill are shrimplike animals that live in the ocean.


    They belong to the group of animals
    called crustaceans, which also includes shrimp,
    crabs, and lobsters. There are about 85 species, or
    types, of krill. They are an important source of food
    for fish, squid, whales, seabirds, and other animals,
    especially around Antarctica.
    Features of blue whale
    Features of blue whale
    Social behavior Migration
    The social structure for whales is one that is very The blue whale follows a yearly migration
    interesting. They are avid communicators. A pattern between their feeding grounds in
    group of whales that live together is known as a polar waters to their breeding grounds in
    pod. They do almost everything together
    including hunting and migrating. They size of the tropical waters. It is the oldest and largest
    pod can vary from only a few whales to about blue whales that travel the farthest north.
    ten. To communicate with each other, blue Iceland is the perfect place to see them in
    whales make a series of super-loud vocal these waters during the summer months.
    sounds. Their calls are the loudest of any During the winter months the blue whale’s
    creature on the planet, in fact, and can be migratory routes take it towards the
    heard underwater for hundreds of kilometres.
    equator.

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