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How big is the FILTER FEEDING

biggest animal? A blue whale can eat around
4 tons (3.5 metric tons) of krill
(tiny sea creatures) a day. Taking
100-ton (90-metric-ton) gulps of
water, the whale then filters the
water out through baleen plates,
The largest animal on the planet is the blue comblike structures that hang
whale, measuring 100 ft (30 m). It is the biggest from its jaw, trapping the krill.

animal that has ever lived, including the dinosaurs.

The blue whale’s Its eyeball is 6 in Its tongue weighs as
heart is the size (15 cm) in diameter.
of a small car. much as an elephant.

A blue
whale is as
long as 17
Its outer ear is the scuba divers
width of a pencil tip.
swimming
in a line.
A blue whale can blow 160 cu ft
(4,500 liters) of air out of its blowholes at
300 mph (480 kph). The spray it produces
reaches a height of 30 ft (9 m)—as tall as
five men standing on each others’ heads.

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