Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Wildlife Explorer collectible · Blue whale
🐋 Discover the blue whale
The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth, swimming in oceans around the world.
🔎 At a glance
- Animal group: Marine animal
- Region: World oceans
- Conservation status: Endangered (EN)
- Diet: mainly krill
🌊 Where does it live?
Blue whales are found in almost all oceans and migrate long distances between nutrient-rich feeding grounds and warmer breeding areas.
🦐 What does it eat?
Almost exclusively krill — during the feeding season, a blue whale can eat thousands of kilograms per day.
🌊 How it lives
The blue whale filters enormous quantities of seawater with its baleen to catch krill, traveling thousands of kilometers between feeding and breeding grounds.
✨ Unique characteristics of this animal
Its heart alone is as large as a small car, and its call can be heard for hundreds of kilometers — one of the loudest sounds in the animal kingdom.
💡 Did you know?
- A blue whale can grow up to 30 meters long.
- A calf drinks hundreds of liters of milk per day.
- The blue whale's call is among the loudest animal sounds in the world.
- Whaling once brought the species to the brink of extinction.
🌊 Threats & protection
The blue whale is listed as Endangered (EN). Recovery is slow after centuries of whaling; shipping, entanglement in nets, and climate change remain significant threats.
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