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2007-03-27 17:32:43 · 21 answers · asked by Gowtham M 1 in Science & Mathematics Zoology

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bluewhale
By considerable measure, the largest known animal on Earth is the blue whale. Mature blue whales can measure anywhere from 75 feet (23 m) to 100 feet (30.5 m) from head to tail, and can weigh as much as 150 tons (136 metric tons). That's as long as an 8- to 10-story building and as heavy as about 112 adult male giraffes! These days, most adult blue whales are only 75 to 80 feet long; whalers hunted down most of the super giants. Female blue whales generally weigh more than the males. The largest blue whale to date is a female that weighed 389,760 pounds (176,792 kg).
A blue whale's head is so wide that an entire professional football team -- about 50 people -- could stand on its tongue. Its heart is as big as a small car, and its arteries are wide enough that you could climb through them. Even baby blue whales dwarf most animals. At birth, a blue whale calf is about 25 feet (7.6 m) long and weighs more than an elephant. And they do grow up fast: During the first 7 months of its life, a blue whale drinks approximately 100 gallons (379 liters) of its mother's milk per day, putting on as much as 200 pounds (91 kg) every 24 hours. An adult blue whale can eat more than 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) of krill, a tiny shrimp-like creature, every day.
This puts blue whales well above any known land mammal in terms of size. Most people believe that the largest animals to ever exist on Earth were the dinosaurs. However, one of the largest land dinosaurs, the sauropod Argentinosaurus, weighed only about 180,000 pounds (81,647 kg). That's little more than half the size of an adult blue whale. It makes a lot of sense that the world's largest animal would be a sea creature. Land animals have to support their own weight, whereas sea creatures get some help from the water.

2007-03-27 18:00:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Blue Whale

2007-03-27 21:46:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Blue Whale

2007-03-27 20:08:53 · answer #3 · answered by justmemimi 6 · 0 0

Largest Animal on Earth: Blue Whale
Height: 110 feet
Weight: 200 tons (181 metric tonnes)
Debut: Unknown
Championships and accomplishments: Heaviest and tallest animal in the world
Finishing moves: None. It can easily crush a wrestler.

2007-03-27 23:40:35 · answer #4 · answered by shawn michaels pwns cena 4 · 0 0

As Manoj said. But wait a second, mature blue whales grow upto 90 to 100 feets and not just 75. He would have seen an teenage whale.

2007-03-27 20:52:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Blue whale is the biggest animal in world
it grows up to100 feet

2007-03-31 05:28:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Blue Whale.

2007-03-27 18:10:34 · answer #7 · answered by tienyutai 3 · 0 0

blue' whale'
a baleen whale, Balaenoptera musculus,
having furrowed, slate-blue skin with
the underparts mottled yellow from a
coating of microorganisms: at up to 100
ft. (30.5 m) long, the largest mammal
ever known. Also called

2007-03-27 18:25:21 · answer #8 · answered by just for u 1 · 0 0

Blue whale

2007-03-29 04:43:09 · answer #9 · answered by Khurram 3 · 0 0

Blue Whale is the largest animal , but it is all most instint.
Therefore we can also say "Dinosour".

2007-03-29 04:23:51 · answer #10 · answered by katty 2 · 0 0

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