All oceans except the Arctic
Make room! Here is the animal holding all the records! My heart is as big as a car, my body length can reach that of a 10 storey building and I weigh about 140,000 kilos, or as much as 30 elephants! I am the biggest and heaviest animal that ever existed! I only feed however on small crustaceans called krill (tiny shrimps). To satisfy my giant appetite, I have to eat 4 tonnes of krill each day, filtering it in my mouth through hundreds of baleen plates, made from the same material as nails.
I am a mammal and need to surface regularly to breathe air. Although I have been long been hunted for my blubber and meat, I am now protected and my species is recovering.
However, for all marine animals alike ocean pollution represents a new danger. We must take care of our oceans to keep them full of extraordinary animals!
MY SCIENTIFIC NAME Balaenoptera musculus | MY CLASS Cetacean | WHERE DO I LIVE? All oceans except the Arctic | MY HABITAT Ocean | MY SIZE Up to 30 m |
MY WEIGHT Up to 180 tonnes | MY LIFE SPAN 80 years | MY FAMILY A baby every 2 years | WHAT DO I EAT? Small crustaceans | MY CONSERVATION STATUS Endangered |
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