Extant animals size

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(12-11-2019, 03:51 PM)Catherine Wrote: The fin  whale is a graceful looking creature. I just can't picture how big it is. It is 15-17 times my height. Just seeing one would be amazing.  I can't understand the people who actually get to see a fin whale and then they try to kill it. 

It is scandalous that Japan and Iceland are back hunting whales. The world needs to put pressure on them to stop. They shouldn't be killing any whales.

Poor whales, even though they are very large, they can't able to escape from one enemy called as mankind.




The Sei Whale is the fourth largest baleen whale after the blue whale, fin whale and the humpback whale. It measures 14 - 19.8 m (45 to 65 ft) long and weighing about 20 - 30 tonnes. It is among the fastest whales, reaching speeds of up to 50 kilometres per hour (31 mph).

Sei whales were hunted almost to extinction by commercial whalers in the 19th and 20th centuries. Sei whales are classified as Federally Endangered.

In June 2015, scientists flying over southern Chile counted 337 dead sei whales, in what is regarded as the largest mass beaching ever documented. The cause of the mass deaths is not known, however toxic algae blooms caused by unprecedented warming in the Pacific Ocean, known as the Blob, may be implicated.