I am starting my progect......about.......WHALES!!!!
The blue whale - the representative of the family of the suborder polosatikovyh baleen whales. With a weight of up to 150 tons and a length of up to 33 meters of the blue whale is the largest known animal that ever lived on Earth. The largest ever caught whales, the female was caught near the South Shetland Islands. Its length from the fork of the caudal fin to the end of the snout was 33.27 meters and the mass of 176,792 kg.
It was distributed from the Arctic to the Antarctic (almost the entire world's oceans except for small seas). As a result of whaling nearly wiped out. Included in the IUCN Red List with the status of "Endangered", and musculus subspecies in the Red Data Book of Russia, as "critically endangered (category 1)."DimensionsIn the northern hemisphere, the maximum length of 29.8 m females, males 26 m average length of females - 23.5 m, males - 22.8 m largest animal on Earth. The mass of an adult blue whale - 100 120tonn.
The shape of the bodyA huge, slender and elongated body. The head is broad and flat on top, V-shaped with a strongly curved in the side of the lower jaw.On the side is flat. Breathing is not acting the way much. On each side of the upper jaw are black mustache of the plate. Has a 55-68 submandibular neck folds. The pectoral fins are narrow and pointed. The tail is broad with a serrated edge.ColorThe body is bluish-gray with gray spots of various sizes and shapes. The head and lower jaw are dark, back and sides lighter.
An adult blue whale consumes about a million calories a day, which corresponds to 1tonne of krill, is the foundation of its diet. Sailing through the colony of krill, the whalesswallow huge masses of these crustaceans, along with hundreds of tons of water.Then krill filtered through language, which serves as a kind of piston, pushed the water through a huge sieve-like structures (baleen) hanging from the sky. The thickness of the language of a blue whale is more than 3 meters and weight of the weight of an elephant.
World Day of whales - a holiday, established in 1986 by the International Whaling Commission. In that year, on 19 February, the IWC imposed a ban on commercial whaling and whale meat for sale throughout the world.
But February 19 is considered by environmentalists not only protect the whales during the day, but all the oceans and marine mammals. Sometimes, environmental organizations from different countries together and dedicate this day protecting a unique species of mammals, over which hangs the threat of total destruction.
