How Big Do Blue Whales Actually Get?
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2024
- Even the size of Blue Whales gets exaggerated.
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Books
Wild Blue: A Natural History of the World's Largest Animal by Dan Bortolotti
General Blue Whale Info:
wwf.org.au/what-we-do/species...
Ichthyosaur:
www.livescience.com/largest-i...
Ichthyotitan:
www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/sc...
Pygmy Blue Whale Is the same as North Indian Blue Whale:
observation.org/species/912419/
Sizing:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Estimating the Body weight of Large Whales:
www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Longest Blue Whale according to Guiness:
www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...
Guiness Blue Whale:
www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...
Live Science:
www.livescience.com/64459-blu...
Details on the 98ft Blue Whale:
californiacurated.com/2020/04...
Cpt Quentin R Walsh:
academic.oup.com/florida-scho...
Paper on 98ft Blue Whale:
www.sararegistry.gc.ca/virtua...
Book that references the 98ft measurement:
books.google.com/books?id=FFE...
Limits to body size:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Blue Whale Evolution:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
**Fin whales are second longest but not the 2nd Largest, other whales like the North pacific right whale are heavier and therefore bigger***
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@@shafqatishan437 Thanks again for pointing out the error :)
Bowhead whales and fin whales are the second largest animals in Earth's history
@@politonno2499 North pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) are the 2nd largest on avg & max weight, it's pretty conclusive. North atlantic right whales (E.glacialis) are 3rd largest on avg weight, while the bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) are 3rd largest on max weight (which is similar to NPRW) but their avg weight is similar to NARW. Southern right whales (E.australis) have similar avg weight as fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) but higher max weight. So 4 of these baleen whales closely rival each other for the 3rd largest spot. Right whales IMO are the most underrated whales.
The Blue Whale is the BOAT! Biggest of all time lol
😂
Icythotitan would have a word
@@LoudmouthReviewsthat word "Uncle".
Because they loose.
@@bryanrodriguez6875Highly unlikely that you have any evidence to back up that claim. Not knowing isn't proof.
Ichtyotitan: Hold my beer.
You're literally the first channel I've seen to talk sense about blue sizes. People often forget that animals as big as blue whales (or other huge marine life) have to feed such a large size. The ocean is huge, but it doesn't have infinite resources. At a certain, being to big can cost you. So glad you brought up the point about the biggest individuals of any species are usually outliers, and don't represent the norm. Loved this pal, great work. And thanks for the shot out!!
As always, I really appreciate your support.
You haven't even looked, have you? 😂
With the case of blue whales, I suspect the issue is less that there isn't enough krill for slightly larger sizes. It's likely to do with something physiological like how large their heart can get and still work well enough to support their body.
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They have a whale skeleton in my local museum and its huge, and i was speaking to one of the guys there said it would have been about 40ft long. So anything twice that size is almost unimaginable.
yall already know this is gonna be a banger video
I don't think he's ever missed.
I hate how people online speak lol. You must be gen z
@@jarlwhiterun7478 how people online speak? nice english mate.
Yes, but that's the average. What about the Shaq's and Yao Ming's of blue whales?
This person gets it
That's what a 30m/210 ton blue is. Have you even watched the video?
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Thank you! And yeah, sounds like a great idea.
Yesss! More How Big videos! Keep it up man!
Thanks! Will do!
2am and this is the Perfect video before going to sleep
I’m watching this upside down while my Tesla drives during a California sunset I think I won
I love that you put the caveat, "that we're aware of," when saying they are the largest animal to ever exist. Too often, people present info without at least mentioning that said info is only based on our current understanding of things. Knowing our fossil record is anything but complete, it's impossible to be sure there wasn't something larger than a Blue Whale.
Better to say that the Blue Whale is the largest animal known to man, in all Earth's geological history.
I mean realistically it would be pretty hard to get a creature much bigger, besides a fungal colony or a collection of animals that bond together
@@gigashark068 a fungus is not an animal, and I don't know if colonial species could be considered here
@@politonno2499 I know just people usually group them together
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All these different numbers are confusing.
We really need to start using the metric system as a global society.
Just so sad that we hunt this animal, so many whales can't grow to his max cize. And its insane that some orca's literally hunt whales and eat there tongue. Wildlife and nature is crazy, just so sad that some people go in boats and hunt these beautiful animals
You know the creature is colossal when their smallest "pigmy" variant is more than 20 meters
I was on a cruise ship and a blue whale came under the boat. It was bigger than our huge ship.
One of the first books I recall reading multiple times was Bally the Blue Whale by Boris Arnov, published in 1966. I was 7 at the time and sea mammals have fascinated me ever since 😊
On people changing the measurement of something to make it a round figure:
One of the early surveys of Mount Everest found that it was 29,000 feet. The surveyors decided not to publish this as they thought the round figure looked too much like a guess/estimate. To get round this credibility problem they added a further 2 feet to give a height of 29,002 which they felt was much more believable, and published that.
great vid as always
Appreciate that
Im surprised we don't have more length measurements available given that we hunted the hell out of whales
Unfortunately they were not treated with any care back in the day but brutally hunted and processed right there. Considering the disrespect it's unfortunately not that surprising.. I love these amazing animals!
Ok, but do you know who Robert Wadlow is? And only 5% of the ocean has been explored and the Coelacanth still is exists. Mariana Trench.
So many great points
Robert wadlow, like all humans over 2,36m Hight that we know of had a Tumor that caused an overproduction of growth Hormones. Whales cant develop cancer. Next point.
I just came back from the gym and saw this video in my recommend 😎
Awesome video!
Thanks!
That we are aware of...please say you are doing a collaboration with Lindsay Nikole 😀 great video as usual 👍
I wish!
@wildworld6264 it would be awesome! Your slow methodical approach contrasted with her manic hundred miles an hour delivery 😆 love ❤️ to see it
@paulshri8609 Yeah, but I doubt she even knows that this channel exists, and considering the size difference of our channels, I guess it wouldn't really benefit her channel to collab. Maybe one day.
@@wildworld6264 fingers crossed 🤞
Very good video! Looks like giant fragmentary ichthyosaurs may challenge blue whale's position at the top position
you are a whale hater.
Other biggest whale related vid ideas: Livyatan, orca and sperm whales possibly?
Fyi orca's aren't whales mate
@@tonysburgers7223 orcas are Delphinids, which makes them Odontocetes. Odontocetes means toothed whales. All dolphins and porpoises are toothed whales. So cladistically dolphins would be considered whales due to being Odontocetes.
All dolphins are whales but not all whales are dolphins.
@@tonysburgers7223 Whale is pretty much a catch all, umbrella term for any member of Cetacea. Which includes all members of the clade including dolphins and kin. Since you cannot evolve out of a clade it's either dolphins are whales or no member of the Odontocete subfamily is a "whale". Take your pick.
I cant wait tbh
Of all the whales one which desperately needs such a video is the sperm whale
Take physics models of animals with a big pinch of salt. The physics models of African bush elephants said that they couldn't run faster than 15mph right up until somebody clocked one running over 18mph in a zoo and they've been seen close to 20mph in the wild. Now the physics models say that elephants couldn't possibly reach 21mph. I'm curious how long that lasts...
The kodiak bear is extremely close to a cave bear. Way less aggressive than a grizzly bear.
Some footage of whales breathing their last after being beached, with people pouring buckets of water over them to try to keep them comfortable as they expire is extremely hard to watch because the animal is clearly so heavy that when she's not in an water medium she suffocates under her own weight. What an awful, slow, painful way to go! If you're big enough that you expire from oxygen issues in a buoyant medium such as salt water than that would be truly ridiculous size. Nature doesn't waste calories that way.
Yeah, maybe, so I mean they exaggerate on how big sea monster were of the past. They don't know if they could reach 70 feet. For all we know, they could be an average of 50 feet. Blue whale probably of the past could reach 100+ feet, but as you said, dud to man overhunting them their growth, unfortunately shorted because of it.
30 meters and 210 tons is a lot quite enough, in my opinion :D
This got REALLY BORING really fast. Damn..i was looking forward to this.
One must be cautious when applying scientific models, they are subject to revision by real world measurements. An example to consider are redwood trees, some individuals of which are demonstrably taller than models say are possible, as these trees exceed the height limitation timposed by how high that sap or water can rise from the roots by capillary action. Upon further study in light of the obviously exceeded model limits it was determined that the trees were all found in cloud forests, and were likely absorbing the moisture deposited onto the tree's uppermost parts by the nearly daily oceanic fog that condensed from moisture laden sea air as it rose in elevation on the mountain slopes where the trees were found. It must also be noted that there may be an active pumping mechanism that the trees are able to utilize that the model makers are simply unaware of. Nature can be complex.
Likewise, it is possible that blue whales have an as yet unrecognized mechanism that they have developed during their evolution that enables them to metabolize energy more effectively than is expected. It is surprising how little metabolic research has been done on the large whales - it simply is not possible to directly measure their metabolic efficiency ie oxygen intake, carbon dioxide expelled, etc.
Thank you for at least saying “…that we’re aware of.”
Norwegian feetr, at .314 m, areslightly longer than English feet, thus, if the longest blue was measured at 110 Norwegian feet, it is actually longer measured in English feet.
What's you opinion on the recently published study regarding aust colossus ichthyosaur being larger than blue whales, but still growing.
Blue whales are bigger and icthyosaurs are not still growing because they are extinct...
Several Sauropods are longer, but not heavier.
Incredible to imagine going back in time seeing one of those things walking around.
Largest blue I've heard of was 100 ft (30.5m). I don't know if that was an estimate or an actual measurement. Since then I've seen the figure, 98 ft (29.89m) given.
Ive seen one of these beasts in the wild. 👀
Don’t forget the Bruhathkayosaurus. High estimation of 250 tons
Still astonished by the fact that even with all the monsters that lived in the past, the blue whale is the biggest species to have ever lived
How long does it take a blue whale to reach adulthood?
I’m almost certain that if this whales COULD reach massive sizes, the ecosystem just sadly probably doesn’t support it anymore. Not only that but the amount of time an animal like that would have to live in PRIME conditions And hit the genetic lotto without the genes being suppressed because current environmental conditions I would be BAFFLED if we ever actually recorded a whale with modern processes over 100ft.
can you make a vid of how big orcas can get
If people believe that the max sizes of animals are the norm, then they have other issues they need to address. Also, the book of world records is not considered to be a viable source of information, people using it for that are doing themselves no favours.
100 ft on their tip toes😂
In a reality where 99% of all animals to have ever existed are extinct, the chances of the largest animal of all time being alive and amongst us currently is pretty unlikely.
They'll find something. It's just a matter of time.
You wanna know what’s bigger than blue whales and by an order of magnitude?! Krill fishing ships that go to Antarctica to steal blue whale food. Mainly Norwegian.
If you think of it from the aspect that a species grows to its environment, a blue whale is a very small spec in a very large ocean. I am kinda surprised they are not bigger......
I think that is because other than the size of the environment, there's also the resources availabe.
Blue whales need to eat enough in a single gulp in order to offset the cost of doing the gulp in the first place, so they can only reliably eat in nutrient-dense environments.
Same principle behind the Gobi brown bear being the smallest subspecies of bear, despite living in the giant Gobi desert
@@An_Actual_Rat True. That's a good way to look at it.
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OCD is not a fun, quirky character trait synonymous with neatness - it is a crippling and devastating mental disorder that takes a serious toll on the people suffering with it. I can’t tell you the constant mental and physical battle OCD can be, as it subsumes your whole life and turns your own mind against you.
When mine was especially bad, I had trouble even crossing the room without completing countless rituals to appease my intrusive thoughts, which were telling me if I didn’t then my loved ones would die and it would be all my fault. It is exhausting.
Although I’m sure no harm was intended, your comment helps perpetuate this misinformation surrounding OCD, which is already so bad and can make people like me feel incredibly isolated, misunderstood and alone.
Especially since you have a growing platform, it would mean the world to me if you could please be mindful of this topic in the future. Thank you.
You are completely right and I am very sorry for my careless use. I have edited out the remark(it may take a little while to update) and I will be more mindful in the future. Again, I am truly sorry, and I appreciate the feedback.
I looked up "blue whale" in the search bar on youtube. UA-cam replied with a message, "You are not alone." And to call a number for help. What is UA-cam trying to tell me?
Lol yo what is that about? I saw it
Have you heard of the blue whale game
@@electromagneticpsychopath4973 Whats that?
if 33.58m was arrived at by converting from 110 of the longer foot, wouldn't the corrected length actually be over 34.5m?
Yes. There are also a bunch of unconfirmed 120+ foot Blue whales.
@@Mei23448 sureeee "unconfirmed". I believe you're looking for the word "asspull"
12:28 how could you do this to me
How big on wolves next please
They are not giants bigger than people so they won't get theirs.
How about how big does the kodiak bear get. Some claim it can get 2000 pounds and 11 feet tall.
Pretty sure the biggest one was like 800 kg ( 1800 pound)
0:59 a blue whale is an ant compared to the "largest living thing" ... dwarfed by millions of trees on all except one continent! not even talking about Pango or country spanning fungi.
This is about the biggest animal, not the biggest living thing
Depends on the Female!
I mean that giant reptilian whale ichthyosaur being bigger than the blue whale is true tho
Not true because blue whales are bigger...
I understand researchers need to try and secure funding, but the sheer amount of click bait "discoveries" where everything larger than a great white was the "biggest ever" gets annoying and almost always pre disposses me against the study.
Do a biggest brown slugg video😂
NOT BIG ENOUGH
Its not the Size that matters its WHAAALE!!😅 🍊🦧
Fin whale is not the 2nd largest. They are the 2nd longest but 5th or 6th largest in weight. North pacific right whale is the 2nd largest and north atlantic right whale is the 3rd largest after blue whale in weight.
My apologies, I misspoke. I'll add this info to the pinned comment. Sorry again.
@@wildworld6264 thanks for acknowledging, much appreciated. Only wise people admit and correct their mistakes while I've been bashed and even banned by many people including UA-cam admins for correcting them, you know why. So I highly commend you for that.
@shafqatishan437 No, thank you for the correction 🙏. I really appreciate it!
@@wildworld6264 bro can u make a video about black whales (3 right whale species + bowhead whales)? They're very underrated.
There is no reason why we should be hunting and killing any sort of whale or dolphin in today's world.
Very 😂
Now do the SAME thing but now with the african bush elephant,the common ostrich,the snowy(wandering) albatross,the saltwater crocodile, the various species of asian giant salamander,and BOTH the sunfish oarfish and whale shark and also include both the sperm whale and colossal squid
He has already done a few of these animals including the Bush Elephant.
He literally mentioned his video about the colossal squid in this video. Pedro, your not a true Wildworld fan man, sorry dude
I know why you can't be Trey The Explainer, despite sounding uncannily like him. You have a hint of Yorkshire accent. Were you born in the UK and then moved to the US or Canadia?
Nope. Never been to Yorkshire.
@@wildworld6264 Huh. No idea what I'm hearing, then.
I really wonder if Yellowstone hyperpredator and Aust colossus are bigger than blue whale or not.
Blue whales are the biggest animal..
@@ghostshirt1984 for now
have women measure guys tend to exaggerate lol
Biggest Blue whale is 120+ feet
Thumbs down for that thumbnail
that's not OCD. Stop using a psychological disorder to describe a learned need for everything to be square, it's incorrect and adds to the social stigma.
I apologise. I won't use the term in that context in the future.
Nah shut up man.
@@wildworld6264dont be bro it doesnt matter
@JacobBartlett-mh4xy Well, I did use the term incorrectly. I wouldn't want to offend anyone, especially with false information.
@@wildworld6264 makes sense. Anyway love your video’s. Could you do if possible a video on the short-faced bears?