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Today we're learning all about blue whales. We're honestly a little overwhalemed by their size. A tongue the size of an elephant? Yeesh. And we thought Gene Simmons was scary.
Transcript
- 00:04
[Coop and Dino singing]
- 00:14
Ready to find out everything you ever wanted to know [Boy picks a book about Blue Whales from library]
- 00:16
about blue whales but were afraid to ask?
- 00:18
Well, here we go…
- 00:20
For starters…the blue whale is the largest of all creatures to ever live on earth. [Blue Whale in the ocean]
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- 00:24
Yup, even bigger than the dinosaurs.
- 00:26
If there was a “Biggest Loser: Animal Edition,” this guy would have the most to lose.
- 00:31
A blue whale’s tongue alone weighs about as much as an elephant, and its heart is as [Whales heart in the road and car stops]
- 00:36
big as a car.
- 00:37
Which explains why they’re able to love so hard.
- 00:40
Even being as big as it is, a blue whale eats the smallest ocean animals, called krill.
- 00:46
Too bad they don’t have opposable thumbs, or they might actually grill up some krill [Whale grilling krill on barbecue]
- 00:49
on the weekends.
- 00:50
The blue whale is a baleen whale…
- 00:52
…which means that, instead of teeth, it has bristly plates that helps it filter out
- 00:56
plankton and krill from the seawater.
- 00:58
It’s basically a giant Brita pitcher. [whale opening mouth]
- 01:00
Unlike some other whales, blue whales rarely swim in a pod.
- 01:04
Instead, they usually swim alone or with one other partner. [A blue whale and a partner appears above]
- 01:07
Same goes for their dancing habits.
- 01:08
Blue whales are some of the loudest communicators in the world…
- 01:12
…but because of the extremely low pitch, humans are not able to hear them without special
- 01:16
technology.
- 01:17
Not that we’d want to hear them normally.
- 01:19
Who needs all that noise? [Man holding his ears with his hands at the beach]
- 01:20
Female blue whales usually only breed once every three years, and typically only have
- 01:25
one baby.
- 01:26
A newborn baby blue whale is nudged to the surface by its mother to take its first breath. [Baby Blue Whale appears at surface of ocean]
- 01:30
Baby blue whales drink their mother’s milk, just like other mammals.
- 01:33
Unlike some mammals, however, they do not later develop a taste for Red Bull.
- 01:37
Because of their size, blue whales don’t have many predators, besides some sharks and
- 01:41
killer whales. [Killer whales pack hunting a blue whale]
- 01:42
Many blue whales are injured by ships, though.
- 01:44
Especially those steered by color blind, peg-legged captains…
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