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A Blue Whale's tongue is about the size and weight of a full grown AFRICAN ELEPHANT, and its heart is compared to the size of a volkswagon beetle. My GOSH that is HUGE! :)
The humpback whale's flipper can grow as long as 17 feet...longer than the flippers of any other whale. Its scientific name is Megaptera meaning "long winged".
Although whales spend all their time in the oceans, they are mammals just like us. This means that they are warm blooded, give live birth, nurse their young, have traces of hair or fur, and must come to the surface to breathe air through their lungs.
Northern hemisphere humpbacks reach an average length of 45-52 feet, and southern humpbacks reach 60 feet. The average weight for a mature adult is 35-40 tons.
Humpbacks are found in all oceans to the edges of polar ice, and follow definite migration paths from their summer feeding grounds to warmer waters in the winter. There seem to be three distinct, isolated populations: North Pacific, North Atlantic, and Southern Hemisphere.
Humpbacks are among the most endangered whales and fewer than 10% of their original population remains. However, in recent years, humpbacks have been observed more and more frequently feeding along the California coast.
Probably the most famous humpback whale is "Humphrey," who was rescued twice by The Marine Mammal Center and other concerned groups. One rescue was in 1985, when he swam into San Francisco Bay and then up the Sacramento River. Five years later, Humphrey returned and became stuck on a mud-flat in San Francisco Bay near 3 COM Park. He was pulled off the mud-flat and into the water with a large cargo net and the help of a Coast Guard boat. Both times he was successfully guided back to the Pacific Ocean using a "sound net" in which people in a flotilla of boats made unpleasant noises behind the whale by banging on steel pipes. At the same time, the attractive sounds of humpback whales preparing to feed were broadcast from a boat headed towards the open ocean. Since leaving the San Francisco Bay in 1990 Humphrey has not been seen.
This is just some of what I learned on the internet.
You can learn some more from here: The Marine Mammal Center
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