Friday, June 20, 2014

Some Interesting facts about whales



Killer whales  been observed preying on terrestrial mammals, such as deer and moose swimming between islands off the northwest coast of North America

Killer whales generally choose to attack young or weak animals

killer whales have never been observed to eat other marine mammals, they occasionally harass and kill porpoises and seals for no apparent reason.



Killer whale swim in groups to create waves that wash over the floe This washes the prey into the water, where other killer whales lie in wait

The 52-hertz whale is an individual of unidentified whale species, which has been regularly detected in many locations since the 1980s, they call him the World loneliest whate.

Osedax japonicus is a species of bathypelagic polychaete tube worm that lives at great depths on the seabed and is able to sustain itself on the bones of a dead whale

When a whale dies and its carcass falls into the Bathyal or Abyssal zone of the ocean floor, it can sustain a complex localized ecosystem of deep-sea organisms for decades. This is called a “whale fall”.



An elephant weighs less than a blue whale’s tongue: Read More



The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived. The largest known dinosaur of the Mesozoic Era was Argentinosaurus, which is estimated to have weighed up to 90 metric tons (99 short tons).


Whales milk is similar in constancy as toothpaste; it must be thick, or else it will dissipate into the surrounding water.



Blue whale calves are born weighing 3 tons, gain 8 lbs an hour and grow 1.5 inches per day! and their father’s nuts are the size of a midsize car.


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