🐾Humpback whale
Knölvalen (Megaptera novaeangliae) är ett däggdjur som tillhör bardvalarna. Den placeras som ensam art i släktet Megaptera. Knölvalen är en stor val, och som vuxen mäter den 11–18 meter och väger omkring 36 ton. Den är välkänd för sina språng upp över vattenytan och för sin sång. Knölvalen förekommer i oceaner runt hela jordklotet och är eftertraktad av valskådare.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 30,000 kg
- Body length
- 14 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 95 years
Everything we know about the Humpback whale
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass30,000 kgrecord 35,000 kg · SeaLifeBaseCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Figures vary
- 30,000 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length14 mCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 19 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass6,439 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan95 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 95 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length22 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity3.6 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation349 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 342 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l30,000 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Humpback whale yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCetacea
- ›familyBalaenopteridae
- ›genusMegaptera
- ›speciesMegaptera novaeangliae
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- genusMegaptera
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderWhippomorpha
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- genusMegaptera
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