10 amazing facts about whales
#10 In 2013, two musicians took an underwater sound system to a pod of beluga whales. The belugas, which are known as the canaries of the sea because of their singing, joined in on the song.
#9 Scientists found a hand made harpoon that dated back to 1879 in the body of a bowhead whale. The oldest known bowhead was 211 years old. Maybe their slow, methodical heartbeat underneath the Arctic ice helps them live so long.
#8 Female humpback whales have BFF’s. They reunite with their friends every year to float together, eat together, and enjoy each other’s company.
#7 Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived on earth. They can grow up to 100 feet long and weigh as much as 400,000 pounds. Their hearts are as big as a Volkswagen Beetle and can be heard beating from up to 2 miles away. 100 people can fit in their mouths.
#6 A beluga whale in captivity became so good at imitating human speech that researchers thought they were hearing two people converse from a long way away.
#5 Sperm whales sleep standing up. They dive deep, slowly float head first toward the surface, and sleep for about twelve minutes at a time. They only sleep from 6 p.m. until midnight.
#4 When baleen whales lunge feed, they take in their body weight in water.
#3 Moby Dick was real.
#2 A humpback whale’s song rises and falls like a song in the Top 100 chart. If a new whalesong is catchy enough, other whales will sing it.
#1 In 2011, a pod of sperm whales adopted a bottle nosed dolphin that was born with a deformed, s shaped spine.
There is so much genius, beauty, and wonder in the world.
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