Blue Whale WOW Facts
-Blue whales can keep 45,999 liters of water in their mouth at one time! This is equal to 256,000 glasses of water we drink!
-They can travel as fast as 20 miles an hour if needed. But usually travel around 5 miles an hour.
-When a blue whales comes to the surface for air the pressure that they exhale creates air jets of almost 6 meters!
-Under water blue whales appear to be blue, but on the surface of the ocean they are actually more grey.
-In good ocean conditions blue whales can hear each other up to 1,000 miles away
-Blue whales respond to the sounds of incoming vessels so that they can avoid them, but they do not respond as rapidly and do not use as many avoidance maneuvers when they are feeding.
-The largest animal ever to have existed on Earth is the blue whale and according to some scientists, they are getting larger.
-The heart of a blue whale can weigh as much as a car and their tongues can weigh as much as an elephant.
