🐋Blue whale
Blåval (Balaenoptera musculus) är en fenval. Vuxna blåvalar kan bli mer än 30 meter långa och den högsta registrerade vikten är nästan 177 ton. Blåvalen är världens största och tyngsta djur. Den lever främst av krill, och uppnår människans snittålder.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 149,000 kg
- Body length
- 30 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 110 years
Everything we know about the Blue whale
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass149,000 kgrecord 160,000 kg · SeaLifeBaseCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Figures vary
- 136,000 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length30 mCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female27 mWikidataQ42196
Figures vary
- 33 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass6,729 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan110 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 110 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length31 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity5.4 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation327 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 350 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l149,000 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Blue whale yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCetacea
- ›familyBalaenopteridae
- ›genusBalaenoptera
- ›speciesBalaenoptera musculus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderWhippomorpha
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderWhippomorpha
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
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