|
common
name |
Blue
Whale |
| scientific
name |
Balaenoptera
musculus |
| range |
world-wide,
primarily temperate to polar seas |
viewing
hotspots |
California
USA, Sea of Cortez Mexico |
| habitat |
open ocean, occasionally coastal and near polar ice |
| size |
to
100 feet (33m), 100+ tons |
| diet |
krill |
| trivia |
skin
actually gray in color; spout to 30 feet tall; blowholes large enough
for human baby to crawl down; endangered; fast swimmer |
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| KEYWORDS
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mammals, rorqual, rorquals, balaenopteridae, skeleton, aerial, photo,
photos, photograph, photographs, picture, pictures, stock, photography,
marine, underwater |
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