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Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Goahead(m): 1:34pm On Apr 27, 2017

So colossal are these majestic marine mammals, their hearts alone weigh as much as a car.
Picture in your mind a 10-story-tall animal walking down the street and you probably start channeling images of Godzilla or King Kong. But if you imagine it as a marine mammal and place it on its side, swimming … now you've got a blue whale.

Balaenoptera musculus, the blue whale, is the largest animal ever known to have lived on the planet – movie monsters aside. Even at birth it is one of the world’s biggest animals! The planet is covered with amazing, fascinating creatures, but the blue whale ranks among one of the most superlative. Consider the following.

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Goahead(m): 1:38pm On Apr 27, 2017
1 They're ginormous
They’re gigantic, they’re enormous, they’re ginormous! Generally ranging in length from 80 to 100 feet (24 to 30 meters), the longest one ever recorded was a magnificent 108 feet long.

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Goahead(m): 1:41pm On Apr 27, 2017
2. They've got mass
Blue whales weigh up to 200 tonnes, or around 441,000 pounds.
Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Goahead(m): 1:42pm On Apr 27, 2017
3. They've got big thumpers
The blue whale's heart is huuuuge! As in, the size of a car; its beat can be detected from two miles away.

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Goahead(m): 1:43pm On Apr 27, 2017
4. And tongues
A blue whale's tongue alone weighs as much as an adult elephant.

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Goahead(m): 1:45pm On Apr 27, 2017
5. They're big babies
Not as in sissies, but as in born big. The biggest babies on earth, easily, and at birth already rank amongst the largest full-grown animals. They pop out at around 8,800 pounds with a length of some 26 feet. They gain 200 pounds a day! Their growth rate is likely one of the fastest in the animal world, with a several billion-fold increase in tissue in the 18 months from conception to weaning.

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Goahead(m): 1:50pm On Apr 27, 2017
6. They're loud … and make long-distance calls for free Blue whales, in fact, are the loudest animals on the planet. A jet engine registers at 140 decibels, the call of a blue whale reaches 188. Their language of pulses, groans, and moans can be heard by others up to 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away.

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Goahead(m): 1:57pm On Apr 27, 2017
Blue Whale Size: Even bigger than the biggest dinosaur, the blue whale grows to about 30 metres (about 100 feet) long. They are believed to weigh in at 180000 kg (almost 400000 pounds) – about the same as a Boeing 747-400 ready for takeoff – but weighing such a huge animal is very difficult to do. Most measurements were made during the era when they were hunted – hunters would cut the whale up into pieces and weigh each piece separately. This always gives a smaller-than-true figure for its weight.

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Goahead(m): 2:01pm On Apr 27, 2017
The world's largest Rorqual is the Blue Whale,
The world's largest Baleen Whale is the Blue Whale,
The world's largest Cetacean is the Blue Whale (the Cetaceans include whales, porpoises and dolphins),
The world's largest Mammal is the Blue Whale, and
The world's largest Vertebrate is the Blue Whale.

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Uzowee(m): 3:58pm On Apr 27, 2017
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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by yungryce: 4:11pm On Apr 27, 2017
very educative

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Oluwasaeon(m): 6:51pm On Apr 27, 2017
God is wonderful

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by sbashir10(m): 7:02pm On Apr 27, 2017
God is wonderful.
A matured whale 🐳 is about the size of 36 matured elephant 🐘

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Akshow: 7:22pm On Apr 27, 2017
Educative post. Add snake to it or add bbnaija and viola! Frontpage

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by LAFO: 7:54pm On Apr 27, 2017
Educative and nice.

If ship jam this one nko?


Uncle lalasticlala, this is a well written one.

At least no bigotry suppose trend on this

Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by daveP(m): 7:58pm On Apr 27, 2017
Jonah just use free night call enjoy inside this whale ba? Sorry the services was damn 'hot'

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Nobody: 8:31pm On Apr 27, 2017
They are enormous, but humans can still hunt and kill them (like snake). lalasticlala did i lie

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by julioralph(m): 8:59pm On Apr 27, 2017
Nice.

Na dis kind documentaries etc dem I love to watch. Remember one of Sir David Attenborough's encounter with a blue whale. he was in a small boat filming, and the whale suddenly jumped out of the water and made a huge splash.

Nature is fun.

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Goahead(m): 9:08pm On Apr 27, 2017
crotonite:
They are enormous, but humans can still hunt and kill them (like snake). lalasticlala did i lie
Like this one tongue
Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by EKITI001: 9:37pm On Apr 27, 2017
Hmmmm... Ayanma
Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by EKITI001: 9:47pm On Apr 27, 2017
LAFO:
Educative and nice.

If ship jam this one nko?


Uncle lalasticlala, this is a well written one.

At least no bigotry suppose trend on this
na xo
Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by dreamwords: 10:10pm On Apr 27, 2017
Oh boy c -meat, pepper soup for 36 states

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by kowalsky: 10:11pm On Apr 27, 2017
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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Elnino4ladies: 12:16am On Apr 28, 2017
Nature is wonderful
Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Venerable612(m): 12:49am On Apr 28, 2017
The intelligence and distinctive feature of every creature alone makes a case against evolution.

An intelligent being must have created such a vast amount of beautiful and intelligent creatures. I dont accept the notion that nature is by chance.

God is Awesome.

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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Idydarling(f): 12:49am On Apr 28, 2017
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Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by hoMegas(m): 1:08am On Apr 28, 2017
Fantastic creatures. Actually our distant relative
Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Nobody: 3:46am On Apr 28, 2017
Goahead:
Like this one tongue
choi!...humans too like meat
Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Alwaysking: 4:01am On Apr 28, 2017
Interesting!
Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Fogman(m): 4:05am On Apr 28, 2017
Huge
Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by Nobody: 4:41am On Apr 28, 2017
Allahmdulilai

God is Great!!
Re: Blue Whale: The Largest Animal On Earth. by PreciousMia: 4:48am On Apr 28, 2017
God's Creation...Amazing

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