Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Balaenoptera musculus
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Rorqual
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Size
- Huge (over 4 m)
- Active
- Day and night
- Continent
- Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
- Habitat
- Ocean
- Conservation status
- Endangered
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- A newborn calf is already about 7 metres long.
- Its deep, low-pitched calls can travel for tens of kilometres underwater.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q42196 · All animals · All entries