Blue whales
BLUE WHALE By, Nicole Bedard My report is on the blue whale. SPECIES: The blue whale is a member of the Cetacean species. ... The blue whale is on the endangered species list because hunters would kill them for their blubber. The blue whale is the largest mammal to have existed on the earth, but it feeds on some of the smallest animals. DESCRIPTION: The blue whale is a very large whale; it is light blue with gray on top and white spotting. ... SIZES: The blue whale is not only the largest animal in the world today; it is the biggest animal that ever lived, even bigger than the dinosaurs. ... They feed on tiny sea creatures called krill; the largest blue whales can eat 12,000 pounds of krill a day. ... It’s been said that there were 200,000 blue whales in the worlds oceans and today there’s only about 5,000. ... HABITAT: Blue whales usually live in open seas and sometimes in shallow inshore waters. The blue whale can be located in all North American oceans and seas Arctic, Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Pacific.