endangered animals

Blue Whales are mammals. It’s a baleen whale because it has baleen instead of teeth. When a blue whale opens it’s mouth to get the food, it sucks the water in, and the baleen keeps the food in it’s mouth. Baby blue whales are as big as some full grown whales. When they are born they are called calves. A calve is 23 feet long. A blue whale eats krill. Krill is taken in with the water from the ocean. When they are born calve live in the tropical Atlantic, North Atlantic, and North Pacific oceans. In the winter the blue whales migrate to warmer water’s. They eat very little during their stay in warm water. Blue whales used to be hunted with a hare scone, a kind of spear attached to a rope. The whales were so strong that they easily pulled free. Not many whales were caught in the early days of whaling until 1868, when they invented the harpoon gun. Then the blue whales could not even escape. Now, no one is allowed to kill whales.	Dutch translation will be added soon.
*Written by: Lindsey*	(geschreven door)
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