Blue Whale

Blue Whale

• The Blue Whale has no natural predators (that we know of.)
• Killer Whales can prey on a Blue Whale calf, however.
• Trading vessels hitting blue whales.
• One documented case of Orcas seriously wounding and killing a blue whale off the coast of Baja California.

Blue Whale

• The Blue Whale gets its energy for eating Krill, or plankton.
• The Blue Whale can eat tonnes of Krill in one swoop.

Blue Whale

• The Blue Whale has a commensalism relationship with barnacles.

Blue Whale

• The Blue Whale is 100 feet long.
• The Blue Whale weighs 190 tonnes, making it the heaviest and biggest animal to have EVER lived.
• It has a long and slender body, usually a mix of blue of grey - somewhat lighter underneath.
• Three distinct subspecies.