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The blue whale is the world’s heaviest animal.
Even newborn whale calves weigh a whopping
2,700 kg (6,000 lb), which is roughly the same
The tail fluke is up to as an adult hippopotamus. A calf can gain 60 kg
7 m (23 ft) wide, which (132 lb) a day in the first year – almost as much as an
is around a quarter of average person weighs – guzzling 225 litres (50 gallons)
the whale’s 32.6-m of its mother’s fat-rich milk daily. Female blue whales
(107-ft) body length. can weigh more than males.

A blue
whale can
weigh the
same as 32
male Asian
elephants.

= 150,000 kg (331,000 lb)
1 blue whale

A whale’s pectoral fins,
or flippers, are up to 4.8 m
(15 ft 9 in) long. They help
the whale to move in a
specific direction.

FAST FACTS

The bee hummingbird is the world’s smallest bird, weighing
just 1.6 g (0.06 oz). It would take 37 of them to balance
the weight of one fidget spinner.
Up to 88 grooves
stretch from chin
to navel, allowing
the throat to
balloon out with
water when the
An average fidget spinner weighs 59 g (2 oz), whale feeds.
which is the same as 37 bee hummingbirds.

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