Blue Whale

Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus 1758)

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Balaenoptera musculus (Blue Whale) is a species of mammals in the family rorquals. They are listed as endangered by IUCN and as endangered by COSEWIC. They are carnivores. Individuals are known to live for 110 years.

URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/endangered
Definition: A taxon is Endangered when the best available evidence indicates that it meets any of the \r\ncriteria A to E for Endangered, and it is therefore considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild.
Source: http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/2477

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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/endangered
Definition: A taxon is Endangered when the best available evidence indicates that it meets any of the \r\ncriteria A to E for Endangered, and it is therefore considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild.
Source: https://species-registry.canada.ca/index-en.html#/species

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875
Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue
Attribution: Crustacean body sizes

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EOL has data for 46 attributes, including:

diet breadth
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DietBreadth
- Definition: Number of dietary categories eaten by an organism.
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1
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Indian Ocean
- URI: http://www.marineregions.org/mrgid/1904
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habitat breadth
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/HabitatBreadth
- Definition: Number of habitat layers used by an organism
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1
habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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oceanic zone
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000207
- Definition: The water mass of an ocean that is not above a continental shelf.
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inter-birth interval
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/InterBirthInterval
- Definition: The length of time between successive births of a female.
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821.25
litters per year
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/LittersPerYear
- Definition: Number of litters per female per year
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0.45
population group size
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/PopulationGroupSize
- Definition: Number of individuals in a group that spends the majority of their time in a 24 hour cycle together
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1
population trend
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/population_trend
- Definition: i.e., increasing, decreasing, stable, or unknown
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Increasing
prenatal development duration
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/PrenatalDevelopmentDuration
- Definition: The duration of the development from fertilized, deposited or implanted egg to hatching/birth. Corresponds to egg incubation duration in oviparous animals and to gestation period duration in viviparous animals.
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350 days
social group size
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SocialGroupSize
- Definition: Number of individuals in a group that spends the majority of their time in a 24 hour cycle together where there is some indication that these individuals form a social cohesive unit.
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1.25
water temperature
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
- Definition: Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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-1.706 degrees celsius
weaning age
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/WeaningAge
- Definition: Age when primary nutritional dependency on the mother ends and independent foraging begins to make a major contribution to the offspring’s energy requirements.
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211.71

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Blue whale. View this species on GBIF

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Blue whale includes 4 children: