Fun Facts

Nice Jump!   This oceanic acrobat   is a protected   Humpback Whale.     They can be found    close to shore and on   The BMT Whale Wheel!

Northern Right Whale

• They are slow swimmers reaching up to 10 mile per hour at top speed. 
• They can dive to at least 1,000 feet and can stay submerged up to 40 minutes.

Grey Whale

• They are slow swimmers and travel at 3-6 miles per hour.
• They make one of the longest migrations of all mammals, averaging 10,000-14,000 miles round trip. 
• They are benthic-feeding marine mammals. This means that they feed only on organisms living on or in the sea floor.

Sperm Whale

• They can stay underwater for up to two hours holding a single breath. 
• They are the deepest diver of the great whales and can descend to depths of over 3,300 feet. 
• They have the largest brain of all animals on earth, weighing more than 11 pounds (an average human brain weights 3 pounds).

Cuvie's Beaked Whale

• They have a small head which is about ten percent of their body length.
• They prefer deep water of over 3,300 feet and avoid shallow coastal areas. 
• They are rarely seen at sea, so we know very little about their habits.

Pilot Whale

• Pilot whales are actually part of the dolphin family although their behavior is closer to whales. 
• Pilot whales are very social, and are most often found in groups of 20 to 90.

Blue Whale

• They are the largest living animal in the world, possibly the largest animal to ever inhabit the earth. 
• A small child could crawl through the largest blood vessel of a Blue Whale. 
• The heart of a full grown Blue Whale is as large as a small car and weighs up to 4,000 pounds. 
• The tongue of a Blue Whale weighs more than an elephant. 
• They feed almost exclusively on krill. They can eat up to 7,715 pounds of krill or approximately 40 million krill a day. 
• During the nursing period, calves consume 100 gallons of the mother's milk each day; gain 200 pounds a day, or 8 pounds an hour; and grow 1 and 1/2 inches in length a day.

Minke Whale

• They are fast swimmers, capable of reaching a speed of 16-21 miles per hour.

Humpback Whale

• The shape and color pattern on the humpback whale's dorsal fin and flukes (tail) are as individual in each animal as are fingerprints in humans. 
• They are active, acrobatic, and are often seen engaging in breaching (throw themselves completely out of the water), and swim on their backs with both flippers in the air, tail lobbing (raising their huge flukes out of the water and then slapping it on the surface) and flipper slapping (using their flippers to slap the water). 
• Male humpback whales sing long, complex "songs". A typical song lasts from 10-20 minutes. 
• They blow nets of bubbles around school of fish and swim up through the bubble net to catch their food.
• In the winter they migrate to low latitude locations and in the summer they migrate to high latitude locations.

Sei Whale

• They are among the fastest whales, and can swim at speeds of up to 34.5 miles per hour.

Fin Whale

• Their nickname is "greyhound of the sea", and are capable of bursts of speed of up to 23 miles per hour.

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