Super Efficient Feeding Habits of Blue Whales
Posted Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:56:54 GMT by Michael Evans
A Canadian study to contrast the amount of energy a blue whale could expend during one dive, with the amount of energy it could get from the food it collected. As most people will know, the blue whale is the largest animal alive and probably the largest animal that has ever lived. When a blue whale calf is born it is as big as a fully-grown hippopotamus and during its first seven months it will drink about 400 litres of its mother's milk every day.
Super Efficient Feeding Habits of Blue Whales