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The Blue Whale Balaenoptera Musculus or the blue whale is the largest mammal in the world This enormous mammal can grow to be 110 feet long and weigh as much as 190 tons Thats longer than two city buses and the total weight of 30 elephants This giant is powered by a heart the size of a taxi-cab The blue whales of the Antarctic grow larger than those of the Northern Hemisphere Also the females tend to be slightly larger than the males of the same age These mammals are bluish-gray in color with some paler spots Algae tends to accumulate on their bellies causing a yellowish or mustard color It has a mottled appearance with a broad flattened U-shaped head Fifty to ninety throat grooves run from the mouth to the belly Instead of teeth blue whales have 270 to 400 black baleen plates on each side of their mouths These plates are about forty inches long and twenty-two inches wide The blue whale has a tiny stubby dorsal fin set far back on its body It has a 20 foot wide slightly notched triangular flukes which is propelled by an extremely thick tail stock The flippers on this creature are long and slender and are about one-seventh of the whales body length The blue whales most prominent feature is its exceptionally fleshy splashgaurd which surrounds the blowholes at the front and sides This whale spouts a single slender jet that soars forty to fifty feet high The blue whale has very poor eyesight no sense of smell and has no sense of taste However the blue whale does have well-developed senses of touch and hearing This large mammal has a life span of about eighty years At this time there is not too much known about the blue whales behavior Blowing and diving patterns vary according to the whales activity The blue whale blows every ten to twenty seconds for a total
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