BLUE WHALE, one of the largest creatures ever known to roam the Earth and yet it dwarfs in size comp
BLUE WHALE, one of the largest creatures ever known to roam the Earth and yet it dwarfs in size compared to its ancestors. Sadly, researchers have shown that these filter-feeding aquatic creatures only started to binge eat when climate changed. It is an advantage developed due to run-off nutrients from melting ice caps during certain times of the year. It is crazy to think their diet really consist of tiny krills, and a day’s worth of them roughly weighs 4 tons. These heavy weight champs themselves weight about 200 tons, that is about 33 elephants! Even though they are at the top of the food chain, heavy whaling before 1966, ship injuries and toxins in the ocean are among the top causes of its’ threatened population on top of climate change. I would hope to see their beauty one day and many generations after us too may have the honor. I dream to even just hear their whistle, which is can be heard hundreds of miles away. >TO BUY THIS PART OF 2019 CALENDAR CLICK HERE< For more from this series >click here< -- source link
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