AnimalvsAnimal
Finhval🐾

Photo: Aqqa Rosing-Asvid - Visit Greenland · CC BY 2.0

SpeciesCetaceaBalaenopteridae
Marine mammals

🐾Fin whale

Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)

לווייתן מצוי (לעיתים רורקל או רורקל ענק; שם מדעי: Balaenoptera physalus) הוא יונק ימי ממשפחת לווייתני ענק שבסדרת הלווייתנאים. זהו הלווייתן השני בגודלו, ובעל החיים השני בגודלו החי כיום אחרי הלווייתן הכחול. הלווייתן המצוי עשוי להגיע לאורך של כמעט 27 מטר ומשקל של 120 טון אך אורכו נע בדרך כלל בין 18 ל-21 מטר ומשקלו הממוצע הוא כ-70 טון. הלווייתן המצוי הענק ניצוד באופן נרחב במהלך המאה ה-20, וכיום הוא נחשב כמין הנתון בסכנת הכחדה.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
46
Photos
1
Measurements
11
vs you
≈ 630× your weight
Also called
Razorback, Finner, Finback, Common Rorqual, Fin-backed Whale, Herring Whale
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
38,800 kg
Body length
18 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
116 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Fin whale

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
38,800 kgrecord 75,000 kg · SeaLifeBase
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

Record: largest individual on record

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 70,000 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
18 m
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 27 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass
7,111 g
COMBINE
Details ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
116 years
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 114 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
26 years
COMBINE
Details ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
7.3 years
COMBINE
Details ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
342 days
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 342 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
COMBINE
Details ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
COMBINE
Details ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
38,800 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Fin whale yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCetacea
  5. ›familyBalaenopteridae
  6. ›genusBalaenoptera
  7. ›speciesBalaenoptera physalus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  3. suborderWhippomorpha
  4. infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
All 13 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  12. suborderWhippomorpha
  13. infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
More

More about the Fin whale

Closest relative on this site
🐋 Sei whale — last shared an ancestor ≈ 2.3 million years ago.
What it eats
insects and other invertebrates70%
fish30%
In other languages
Finnwal (de), Balaenoptera physalus (es), rorqual commun (fr), finnhval (nb), gewone vinvis (nl), 長須鯨 (zh) … and 27 more languages

חיות מול המצלמה

צילומים אמיתיים של החיות באתר – צדות, נלחמות, ופשוט ממשיכות בשלהן.

לכל הסרטונים (46) ←
Tools

Compare the Fin whale

Pick a tool — the Fin whale is already selected.

Side by side

Compare every stat with any other animal.

993 animals to compareOpen →
Who's bigger?

Stand them on the same floor and see who's bigger.

3rd heaviest of 780Open →
Scaling lab

How speed, brain and bite scale with body size. This animal isn't in the sample yet.

Not in the sampleOpen →
Tree of life

See where it sits in the tree of life.

13 branchesOpen →