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SpeciesCetaceaBalaenopteridae
Marine mammals

🐾Fin whale

Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Смуга́ч фінва́л, смугач оселедцевий (Balaenoptera physalus) — типовий вид ссавців з родини смугачеві (Balaenopteridae) ряду китоподібні.

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

Age at maturity
7.3 years
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
342 days
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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
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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.

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

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