2006-07-27 07:26:28 · 8 answers · asked by ansloosle 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
the big boys, i.e. blue, humpback, sperm etc, can stay under for as long as two hours. most will last about 1 1/2 hour under water. sperm whale can dive for 2 hours since they eat squid and not plankton or crill like the others do. they have to dive damn near to the bottom of the ocean to find food so it takes a while to get down there
2006-07-27 07:31:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whales can stay inside for 3 hours with the last breathe.
2006-07-31 01:34:44 · answer #2 · answered by sonu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sperm whales are the internal maximum divers and can dive for over an hour and a a million/2. Deep-diving whales certainly have small lungs. yet they use air lots greater effectively than, to illustrate, human beings. Their blood has a 50% bigger point of hemoglobin and so have a greater physically powerful skill to transport oxygen. We use in simple terms 10-20% of breathed air - whales use eighty-ninety%. as quickly as we dive the oxygen comes 34% from lungs, 40-one% from blood and 25% from muscular tissues. For whales it quite is 9, 40-one, 50 %. In all land animals it quite is basically the windpipe that have helping jewelry. Whales have this helping shape on the smallest branches of their bronchial tree. for the time of a dive the whale's coronary heart beats at a million/2 the value that it does on the outdoors, and the bloodstream to non-needed areas of the physique is grew to become off by using particular muscular tissues, slicing off oxygen use the place not mandatory in the time of the dive. it quite is not something to do with evolution! Whales have been ingeniously and fantastically designed to do what they do.
2016-12-10 15:49:04 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the whale. Some can only hold their breath for 3-5 minutes (Orcas for example), but some whales, like Sperm whales, can hold their breath for over an hour!
2006-07-27 07:30:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some can go for an hour or more. Sperm whales can dive several thousand feet to hunt for squid, and hold their breath for over an hour while they are down.
2006-07-27 07:29:48 · answer #5 · answered by Kutekymmee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Around 30 miniutes usually
2006-07-27 07:32:21 · answer #6 · answered by Dr M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-27 07:37:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on how much they swim around, but a few hours if not too active
2006-07-27 07:29:32 · answer #8 · answered by digital genius 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋