The Endangered Blue Whales

Hello! Today I'm blogging about the Blue Whales. In class we had to blog about an endangered animal, and I chose the Blue Whale. Here are some really cool facts:

Blue Whale!!!

1. Blue Whales grow to be about 80 feet, and weigh about 120 tons.
2. The female Blue Whales are longer and weigh more than the males (the largest Blue Whale was 94 feet, and weighed about 174 tons!)
3. The largest Blue Whale has a heart that weighs 1,000 pounds and 14,000 pounds of blood circulating through it's body.
4. The heart of the Blue Whale is about the size of a Volkswagon bug car!
5. A human could crawl through one of it's major blood vessels.
6. Blue Whales are the loudest animals on Earth.
7. The color of the Blue Whale is usually blue-gray with gray spots.
8. The underbelly has brown, yellow, or gray specks.
9. They have 320 pairs of baleen (teeth that strain) in their mouth.
10. It has 2 blowholes.
11. They have a 2-14 inch thick layer of blubber.
12. They usually swim in pods (groups). They sometimes swim in pairs.
13. They breathe air by going up to the surface and breathing through 2 blowholes located near the top of its head.

That's all for today, bye bye.