藍鯨的身軀是如此的巨大，以致於壹條舌頭就有2000千克，頭骨有3000千克，肝臟有1000千克，心臟有500千克，血液循環量達8000千克，雄獸的睪丸也有45千克。如果把它的腸子拉直，足有200-300米，血管粗得足以裝下壹個小孩，臟壁厚達60多厘米，雄獸的陰莖長達3米。它的力量也大得驚人，所發出的功率約為1500-1700馬力，堪稱是動物世界中當之無愧的大力士。
藍鯨分布於從南極到北極之間的南北兩半球各大海洋中，尤以接近南極附近的海洋中數量較多，但熱帶水域較為少見。在我國見於黃海、東海、南海，包括臺灣南部及西南部水域。盡管體型巨大，平時行動緩慢，常常靜止不動，卻能在水中沈浮自如，尾巴靈活地擺動，既是前進的動力，也起著舵的作用，前進的時速高達28公裏。
藍鯨棲息的海灣大多由陸地的河水中沖入了極為豐富的有機質，使水質十分肥沃，促進了浮遊生物的大量繁殖。而密集的浮遊生物，又引來了身體閃耀著鉆藍色光芒的大群磷蝦。不可思議的是，藍鯨這種超大型的動物竟然就是以鱗蝦這種微小的動物為主要食料的。它的胃分成四個，第壹胃為食道部分膨大而變成的，所以胃口極大，壹次可以吞食磷蝦200萬只，每天要吃掉4000-8000千克，如果腹中的食物少於2000千克，就會有饑餓的感覺。磷蝦是全世界數量最多的動物，廣泛分布於南北極海區，正是由於如此豐富的食物，而且生活在水裏沒有支持體重的限制，所以藍鯨才能發育得這樣巨大。它每天都用大部分時間張開大口遊弋於稠密的浮遊生物叢中，嘴巴上的兩排板狀的須像篩子壹樣，肚子裏還有很多像手風琴的風箱壹樣的褶皺，能擴大又能縮小，這樣它就可以將海水和磷蝦壹齊吞下，然後嘴巴壹閉，使海水從須縫裏排出，濾下小蝦小魚，吞而食之。藍鯨的食物還有其他蝦類、小魚、水母、矽藻，以及各種浮遊生物等，相形之下，生活在北方海域的藍鯨，體型比生活於南極附近水域的要小，壹般認為這與其食物的種類和數量有著密切的關系。
藍鯨雖然生活在大海裏，但也同其他哺乳動物壹樣，用肺進行呼吸，肺的重量達1000多千克，能容納1000多公升的空氣。這樣大的肺容量，使它呼吸的次數大大減少，大約每隔10-15分鐘才露出水面呼吸壹次。呼吸時先將肺內的二氧化碳等廢氣從鼻孔逐出體外，然後再吸進新鮮氧氣。每當它的頭部露出水面呼吸時，先將體內的二氧化碳等廢氣逐出體外，這股強有力的灼熱氣流沖出鼻孔時，噴射的高度可達10米左右，並把附近的海水也壹起卷出海面，使藍色的海面上出現了壹股蔚為壯觀的水柱，遠遠望去，宛如壹股海上噴泉，同時還發出猶如火車的氣笛壹般響亮的聲音，人們稱之為“噴潮”。人們可以根據藍鯨噴氣時發出的聲音、噴潮的高度和形狀，來確定它的位置。藍鯨生活在各大洋中。我國海域極為少看到,黃海和南海曾有出現過藍鯨的記錄,壹般不超過100米。但有的個體可潛至500米深,潛水時間可持續10～20分鐘,隨後是連續8～15次噴氣,噴出的水柱可高達9.1米。
壹般鯨類在潛水之前是不會升起尾巴的，但藍鯨在潛水之前總是將尾巴露出水面，有時竟高高地躍出水面，然後迅速潛入30-40米的水中去尋覓食物。平時它也喜歡用尾鰭打水，這是壹種有著多種用途和多種目的的消遣，可能是在做遊戲，也可能是為了引起同伴的註意，或許是為了擺脫皮膚上的寄生蟲的騷擾。
雖然有人曾見到50-60只藍鯨成群活動，但壹般很少結成群體，大多數是孤獨的，或僅有2-3只在壹起活動。雙棲的藍鯨彼此十分和睦，壹起遊泳、潛水、覓食和呼吸，宛如鴛鴦，形影不離，身後常常留下壹條寬寬的水道。3只在壹起的藍鯨，大多為雌獸和壹只幼仔鯨緊靠在壹起，雄獸尾隨其後，相距大約3米左右。
藍鯨在冬季繁殖，雌獸壹般每2年生育壹次，懷孕期為10-12個月，每胎只產1仔。剛出生的幼仔體長就達6-8米，體重約為6000千克，為了防止窒息而死，雌獸要將幼仔托出水面呼吸第壹口空氣，以後它就能自己呼吸了。雌獸的壹對乳頭長在生殖孔的兩側，哺乳的時候遊在海水的上層，幼仔則緊跟在雌獸後方的下面，因為幼仔沒有能動的嘴唇，不能自己銜著乳頭吮乳汁，雌獸就憑借肌肉的收縮，將乳汁直接噴射到幼仔的嘴裏，這也是它對水中主活的壹種很好的適應。藍鯨乳汁中的營養十分豐富，其中脂肪的含量是牛乳的10倍，而幼仔每天吸食的乳汁在1000千克以上，所以發育得很快，8個月以後，可增加到15米，體重增長到23，000千克，可以自己張嘴吃各種浮遊生物了。到了2歲半至3歲時，體長即可超過20米。性成熟的年齡約為8壹10歲，壽命壹般都在50歲以上，最多可以活到90-100歲。
在所有動物中, 藍鯨發出的聲音最大,.藍鯨在與夥伴聯絡時使用壹種低頻率,震耳欲聾的聲音。這種聲音有時能超過180分貝,比妳站在跑道上所聽到的噴氣式飛機起飛時發出的聲音還要大,靈敏的儀器曾在80千米經外探測到藍鯨的聲音。
藍鯨在分類學上隸屬於哺乳綱、鯨目、長須鯨科、長須鯨屬。由於多年來世界各國在各大海洋中競相獵捕，現在體長在25米以上的藍鯨已經很少見了。另外，鱗蝦的大量捕撈，也使藍鯨的覓食活動受到了很大的影響。據統計，半個世紀以前，全世界的藍鯨大約還有30萬只之多，到1974年尚有25000只，而現在僅剩有大約2000只了。盡管自1932年以來，國際上就已經對每年捕殺藍鯨的數量作了限制，但是這種世界上最大動物的前景仍然十分危險！
The largest blue whale is not only whales, but once on the Earth than the biggest dinosaur life long shock (shock lung, and its length there is 39-52 meters! Height can reach 18 meters. Weight reached 130 tons.
Every year, within the eardrum has a lot of wax accumulation, according to the thickness of wax, you can determine its age. Department in its upper jaw have a piece of the corpus callosum and white, are the growth of hair once the place, then, are the degradation of the hair on the left of a verrucous vegetation has become a breeding ground for parasites. This because of the corpus callosum in each individual and not on the same, just different shapes are wearing the "hat", which therefore can distinguish between different individuals.
) But also large, is known since ancient times has been the largest of all animals, and in general for the 2400-3400 cm body length, weight of 1000 grams 150,000-200,1000, that is, its weight is equivalent to 25 more than the African elephant, or the weight of 2000-3000 the sum of the individual. Fortunately, because of the role of marine buoyancy, it does not need as easily as land animals to support their own weight, and also a huge help to maintain a constant body temperature.
Special short dorsal fin, its length less than 1.5% of body length, flipper is very short, about 4 meters, with 4 toes, later fate of the missing have not carved wavy, wide, flat tail flat. Streamline the entire body was, seems like a razor, so it was called the "razorback."
Blue Whale呈淡general body surface are blue or gray rat, back there is fine pale stripe, white chest spot, 20-fold more than in the ditch, also covered with abdominal fold, as long umbilical, with ocher color macular.雌獸there is cleavage at both sides of the gonopore, which has long nipples. Head relatively small and flat, has two fumaroles, located on top of the head, kissed wide mouth, and mouth without any teeth, maxillary width, convex curved upward, the Health and have to have a black board, many on each side pieces of 300-400, 90-110 cm long, 50-60 cm wide.
Blue whale habitat of the Gulf most of the rivers from the land into an extremely rich in organic matter, so that water quality is very fertile, and promoted a large number of breeding plankton. The plankton-intensive, it has given rise to a body radiates with blue light of the large number of drilling krill. Inconceivable that such a large blue whale is the animal has such a small scale shrimp as the main food of animals.
Blue Whale's body is so great, so there is a tongue 2000 kilograms, there is 3000 kilograms skull, liver there is 1000 kilograms, 500 kilograms heart, blood circulation amounted to 8000 kilograms, there is also雄獸testicles 45 kilograms. If the intestines straighten it enough to have 200-300 Rice, vascular rough enough to a child under the fitted, dirty wall thickness of more than 60 centimeters,雄獸penis as long as three meters. Its staggering force, issued by the horsepower of the power of about 1500-1700, most of the animal world are worthy of Hercules.
Distribution of blue whales from the Antarctic to the Arctic in the north and south between the two hemispheres of the major oceans, particularly near the ocean near the Antarctic more quantity, but relatively rare in tropical waters. In our country in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea, the South China Sea, including southern and south-western Taiwan waters. Despite the huge size, the slow pace of normal, usually stationary, it can easily sink in the water, the flexibility to swing the tail, both power forward and also plays the role of the rudder, the course of up to 28 kilometers per hour.
Although blue whales live in the sea, but also with other mammals, like to breathe with lungs, lung weight of more than 1000 kg, can accommodate more than 1000 liters of air. Such a large lung capacity, it significantly reduced the frequency of breathing, about every 10-15 minutes to a surface to breathe. Breathing carbon dioxide, such as the lungs first exhaust expelled from the nostrils in vitro, and then inhaling fresh oxygen.
Its stomach is divided into four, the first part of the stomach to the esophagus become swollen, and so a great appetite, one can devour two million krill per day to eat 4000-8000 kg, if less than the food ventral 2000 kilograms, it will have the feeling of hunger. Krill are the largest number of animals all over the world, is widely distributed in north and south polar area is so rich because of the food, and live in the water did not support the weight restrictions, so development of a blue whale can be so great.
1 meter. Before diving whales in general are not at the tail raised, but before the blue whale diving always at the tail above the surface, and sometimes even leap high water, and then quickly into the 30-40 meter go looking for food in water.
Blue Whale Study on the classification under the MAMMALIA, cetaceans, fin whales Branch, fin whales are. Because over the years in the major countries in the world compete to catch the ocean, and now at 25 meters in length or more rarely blue whale has been met with. In addition, the scale of a large number of shrimp fishing, but also blue whale feeding activity has been greatly affected. According to statistics, half a century ago, the blue whale around all over the world have as many as 300,000 to 25,000 there in 1974, and now there is only around a 2000.
With three blue whales, are for the most part and a baby whale雌獸close together, followed雄獸Since then, around 3 meters apart. Blue whales in the winter breeding, the general雌獸once every 2 years fertility, pregnancy period of 10-12 months, each producing only one child, Aberdeen. Newborn baby on the body length of 6-8 meters and weighing about 6000 kilograms, in order to prevent death, baby care雌獸to the first surface to breathe air, since it will be able to own a breathing.
The age of sexual maturity is about 10 1 8 years old, life expectancy at 50 years of age are generally more than can live to 90-100 years old. In all animals, the voice of blue whale the largest. Blue whale contact with partners in the use of a low frequency, the sound deafening. Sometimes the sound can be more than 180 db, than you hear standing on the runway for take-off of the jet but also the sound, and sensitive equipment in the 80 km outside the detection by the voice of the blue whale.
It also likes to use normal tail water, which is a multi-purpose and have a variety of recreational purposes, are possible to do at the game, or it may be in order to arouse the attention of his companions, perhaps in order to shake off the parasites on the skin of harassment . Although some people have seen groups of 50-60 only to blue whales, but rarely form a group in general, most are solitary, or only with activity 2-3 only. Double of the blue whale habitat is in harmony with each other, with swimming, diving, feeding and breathing, like a mandarin duck, inseparable, usually leaving behind a broad watercourse.
Since 1932 even though the international community has been on the annual number of blue whale hunting restrictions, but the world's largest animal on the prospects are still very dangerous!
It every day, most of the time with open mouth around in a pair of dense plankton, on the mouth of the two rows have to like a sieve plate, the stomach's also a lot of accordion bellows, as the same fold, but also to expand reduced, so that it can be swallowed together water and krill, and then closed one mouth so that water discharged from the have to, under the filter shrimp fish, swallow and eat. Blue whales have other shrimp food, fish, jellyfish, diatoms, and a variety of plankton, etc. In contrast, living in the northern waters of the blue whale, larger than life in Antarctic waters near the small, it is generally thought this with the type and quantity of food is closely related to.