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The average length of sexually mature female blue whales is 22.0 meters (72.1 ft) for Eastern North Pacific blue whales, 24 meters (79 ft) for central and western North Pacific blue whales, 21–24 meters (68–78 ft) for North Atlantic blue whales, 25.4–26.3 meters (83.4–86.3 ft) for Antarctic blue whales, 23.5 meters (77.1 ft) for Chilean ...
Researchers examining southern right whales found that the median life span for the species was 73.4 years, and that 10 percent of individuals survived past 131.8 years. ... tends to live longer ...
They represent average values and should only be considered as approximations. ... Whale (Delphinapterus leucas) 408 [2] Whale (Physeter catodon) 480 590 ...
The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. ... which is the average weight of an adult female elephant. ... Reproduction and Life Cycles. Blue ...
The maximum lifespan of the freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) may be 210–250 years. [78] [79] [80] Some confirmed sources estimate bowhead whales to have lived at least 211 years of age, making them the oldest mammals. [81] Rougheye rockfish can reach an age of 205 years. [82]
Whales are fully aquatic, open-ocean animals: they can feed, mate, give birth, suckle and raise their young at sea. Whales range in size from the 2.6 metres (8.5 ft) and 135 kilograms (298 lb) dwarf sperm whale to the 29.9 metres (98 ft) and 190 tonnes (210 short tons) blue whale, which is the
These include such animals as the bowhead whale—with its 200-year lifespan ... average human life span would be more than 1,000 years,” he tells Scientific American. “Maximum life span ...
The pygmy blue whale is the only one of the three identifiable subspecies to be found regularly in tropical waters. It occurs from the sub-Antarctic zone to the southern Indian Ocean and southwestern Pacific Ocean, breeding in the Indian and South Atlantic oceans, and travelling south to above the Antarctic to feed, [4] [7] although they very rarely cross the Antarctic Convergence.