As with the dolphins, these animals classified as mammals because whales do not lay eggs like fish in general, besides the Blue Whale also reproduce by giving birth.
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Like other mammals, although the life in the waters it turns out the whale breathes using lungs and do not have gills. In fact! The pope is the only mammals that live under the sea throughout his life.
As reported by Unilad, the Blue Whale can grow to a length of 33 meters and a weight of up to 181 tonnes, several times the size of the mammoth isn’t it? Even the size of his heart just by car!
Although as a species of giant, it turns out that the pope actually take the animals namely micro-plankton, shrimp, until fish are small-sized. Not like most other animals where the males are larger in size and weighs in weight, the Blue Whale females instead have more body weight than male whale.
When giving birth, a female pope will breastfeed her child. The process of feeding can be done as a mother whale has the muscles around the mammary glands, so that when the muscle is moving then the milk will come out to the mouth of the baby whale. Milk the whales do not dilute such as mammals in general, but tends to be fatty and thick.
The Blue whale is the ruler of the oceans in the earth, power cruising is very extensive and can be found in almost all oceans, except in the shallow waters and the oceans covered the land like the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
The largest mammal that lives on the sea these usually do the migration by moving it from a cold temperature to the temperatures warm to breed. The gestation period of the whale ranged from 10 months to 12 months. Every two or three years, the whale females will generally give birth to one child.
Seen from the figures of the nativity, we can already guess what will affect the number in the population. Blue Whale or Balaenoptera musculus is a mammal with a low population and is experiencing a lot of threat of extinction, among others, because as game animals, are affected by pollution, climate change, entangled in fishing nets, collisions with ships, the exploitation of marine habitat excessive and so on.
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