Blue Whales - Giant Creature Of The World's Oceans

Blue whales are magnificent creatures. One of the best places to see them is on a boat in Southern California. Whale depart regularly from San Diego, Los Angeles, Oxnard, Ventura and Santa Barbara.
Blue whales are the largest animals that ever lived on the face of the earth ", much larger than the biggest dinosaurs that roamed the earth there are 200 million years, these mega-whales have been scientifically weighed 200 tons of -. Impressive ten tons of a DC-10 commercial comparable large elephants only weighs about six tons -. 30 times less than a blue whale scientists measured the blue whale in more than a hundred meters long as compared to large dinosaur skeletons that are! in museums, there are more than 90 feet long.
The Guinness Book of World Records says the heart of a blue whale can be heard for 19 miles "It is totally false, no one can hear the beating of the heart of a blue whale 10 feet, let alone 19 miles .
Interestingly, one of the smallest birds on earth Cassins Auklet, and the blue whale, the largest animal to live on earth, both subsist primarily on the same prey: krill. Blue whales are the whales. Instead of teeth, which have a number of flexible plates called whiskers used to tighten up to four tons of these small shrimp and crustaceans ocean every day.
Blue whales came to breed with fin whales, the second largest land animals. Several hybrid whales have been documented by scientists using DNA analysis.
Blue whales are thought to be solitary or may be associated with another individual. It is not known if the Blue Whale pairs stay together for long periods of time. When there are high concentrations of food to 50 blue whales were observed in a region, but it is not unusual normally very close-knit groups seen in other species of baleen whales.
Blue whales are very strong swimmers and usually travel at 12 miles per hour. When excited were recorded at 30 miles per hour!
Blue whales are found throughout the world. The waters off Southern California and Baja Mexico home maybe 25% of the world population. Theyre more prevalent in this region in the spring and summer is a favored feeding place.
Blue whales are found in all oceans of the world, but experts still not where they breed do not know, or giving birth. Are known to be more frequent feeding areas polar oceans in tropical, temperate and cold, and is believed to have given birth to warmer climates.
In 1800, there were hundreds of thousands of blue whales worldwide. Then the man developed weapons such as rifles and spears explosives near a method for removing these wonderful animals in the early twentieth century. Blue whales were hunted ruthlessly for 40 years until they were almost extinct. Protection began in 1966 and its population is slowly recovering, with perhaps 6,000 to 8,000 blue whales left in the world today.