Sentences with phrase «than a blue whale»

While there might never be a larger animal than the blue whale, there are other kinds of organism that dwarf it.

Each of these components can weigh more than a blue whale (150 — 250 tons a piece is normal).

This scene repeated itself daily as we kayaked around Mexico's Sea of Cortés, though sometimes we spotted a fin whale, rather than a blue whale.

With very little to distinguish the game between its predecessor, and more fat on the bone than a blue whale, Shadow of War started out promising, and I quickly felt very much at home, but one game and 15 - 20hours into its sequel and the novelty had finally worn off.

Not exact matches

So Noah's Ark would have held the weight of more than 6 space shuttles at maximum landing weight just with the 2 blue whales alone.

That may explain in part why a plankton - eater like a blue whale can have lower levels of PCBs than beluga whales: The belugas are higher up on the food chain.

«We predict that Antarctic Blue, Southern Right and Fin whales will be at less than half their pre-exploitation numbers by 2100 because of slow growth rates and heavy historical whaling,» Ms Tulloch said.

From an initial population of roughly 250 000 blue whales, there remain no more than 2250 and possibly as few as 225 of them in the Southern Ocean; the best estimate is around 700.

The Southern California Behavioral Response Study exposed tagged blue whales in the California Bight to simulated mid-frequency (3.5 - 4 kHz) sonar sounds significantly less intense than the military uses.

Blue whales lunge through large swarms of krill with their mouths open, taking in more food in one mouthful than any other animal on Earth.

All in all, we're glad ichthyosaurs ended up drawing the short evolutionary straw — we ended up with peaceful, lovable blue whales rather than murderous giant dolphins.

When you take your scuba diving package and vacation in Placencia, you'll never be more than a short boat ride from beautiful coral reefs, an abundance of aquatic life, the famous Blue Hole of Belize, and Gladden Spit, home to the Whale sharks of the Western Caribbean.

The largest concentration of blue whales, which can measure more than 90 feet and weigh up to 150 tons, is often in the Santa Barbara Channel.

17 Magneten is a self - catering holiday home located in Whale Rock, Plettenberg Bay, a short drive from 6 blue flag beaches this seaside town is famous for, and less than 3 km to Beacon Isle shopping centre.

Each winter endangered blue whales more than five times as long as your sea kayak migrate to these waters looking for tasty crustaceans.

May to October you might see blue whales, which can grow more than 31 metres long.

Blue and minke whales venture further into the sea ice than other whales such as humpback and sei and have been seen as far south as 78 ° S in the Ross Sea.

There are also other species of marine animals other than Whales and Dolphins that may be encountered including; Mobula Rays, Sea Lions, Seals, Manta Rays, Sea Turtles, Sharks, Frigates, Brown Footed Boobies, Blue Footed Boobies, Osprey, Cormorants and many, many more!

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If you know that a blue whale can weigh as much as thirty - two elephants or that a toddler could crawl through the arteries of any full - grown great whale or that a humpback's flipper is more than twice the height of the tallest person you know, then your sense of excitement about even a distant sighting will increase.

«The Antarctic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus intermedia) was hunted to near extinction between 1904 and 1972, declining from an estimated initial abundance of more than 250,000 to fewer than 400.»

Once there were more than 200,000 blue whales in the Antarctic Ocean alone, whereas today there are perhaps 8,000 in the whole world.

The solitary wanderer emits its metronomic calls at around 52 hertz, a tuba pitch that is, nonetheless, far higher than the calls closest to it — those of the giant blue and fin whales.

More than 200,000 Antarctic blue whales used to live in the Southern Ocean — but 20th Century whaling decimated this population and latest estimates put this population at just around 2,300 animals.

Historically, the IWC considered that Antarctic blue whales formed six «stocks,» or demographically isolated biological populations, within which internal dynamics (births and deaths) are more important than external dynamics (immigration and emigration)[6].

I was pleasantly surprised to see that blue whales can dive deeper than nuclear submarines.