The Blue Whale

Interesting fact I just discovered. The heaviest land mammal is the African Elephant, weighing in at 14,000 lbs, or 7 tons. Big guy, huh?

Yeah well, how about the heaviest marine mammal, the blue whale? This creature generally weighs about 150 tons. That is not a typo. 300,000 lbs. As much as 25 elephants. 2000 people. My house.

More facts:

• The blue whale's tongue weighs as much as an elephant
• Its heart weighs a half-ton, and it has 7 tons of blood in its body.
• The baby gains 8.5 lbs an hour while drinking 130 gallons of its mother's milk a day (ugh.)
• Its whistle is the loudest animal sound ever recorded, at 180 decibels (that equals the noise made by a navy cruiser.)

And here are some pictures.

Well, we humans are tiny creatures, aren't we!