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Blue
Whale Pictures - Photos of the World's Largest
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The blue
whale, Balaenoptera musculus, is blue-gray
in color, often with lighter gray mottling on
a darker background. Blue whales may be found in
all oceans of the world. They migrate to tropical-to-temperate
waters during winter months to mate and give birth
to calves. They can feed throughout their range,
in polar, temperate, or even tropical waters. There
are four sub-species: Balaenoptera
musculus musculus,
Northern blue whale which inhabits the north Atlantic
and north Pacific; Balaenoptera
musculus intermedia, Antarctic
or Southern blue whale; Balaenoptera
musculus indica,
Indian Ocean blue whale; and Balaenoptera
musculus brevicauda, the pygmy blue whale. In all of them,
the body is long, somewhat tapered, and streamlined,
with the head making up less than one-fourth of its
total body length.
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Picture of blue whale,
Balaenoptera musculus, blowingl,
Mexico, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 007529 |
Image of park arches
made from blue whale lower jawbones, mandibles, Balaenoptera
musculus, Port Stanley on East Falkland Island
in the Falkland Islands Group, South Atlantic Ocean.
Picture #: 014933 |
Stock photo of blue
whale,
Balaenoptera musculus, fluke, Mexico, East
Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 007514 |
Photo of blue
whale, Balaenoptera musculus, blow, Mexico,
East Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 007594 |
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Picture of pelagic red
tuna crab, Pleuroncodes planipes, open ocean,
food for endangered blue whale, Balaenoptera
musculus, San Diego, California, East Pacific
Ocean
Picture #: 007543 |
Image of blue whale, Balaenoptera
musculus, with remora,
Mexico, Eastern Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 007504 |
Stock photo of blue
whale, Balaenoptera musculus, fluke, Mexico,
East Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 007537 |
Photo of blue whale, Balaenoptera
musculus, mother and calf, calf blowing, Mexico,
East Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 007546 |
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Picture of blue whale, Balaenoptera
musculus, Mexico, Pacific
Ocean
Picture #: 007506 |
Image of blue whale, Balaenoptera
musculus, fluke Mexico, Pacific
Ocean
Picture #: 007562 |
Stock photo of blue
whale, Balaenoptera musculus, blow hole open,
Mexico, East Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 007528 |
Photo of blue whale, Balaenoptera
musculus, with remora,
Mexico, Eastern Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 007508 |
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Picture of blue whale,
Balaenoptera musculus, feeding on krill, Mexico, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 001780 |
Image of of blue whale, Balaenoptera musculusl, Baja California, Mexico, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 007548 |
Stock photo of blue
whale, Balaenoptera musculus, fluking, raising flukes to start deep dive, off central Baja Peninsula, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
Picture #: 009074 |
Photo of replica of a blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, model, digital illustration
Picture #: 009782 |
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Picture of blue
whale, Balaenoptera musculus, dorsal aspect of peduncle and fluke, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 007555 |
Image of of blue whale, Balaenoptera
musculus, exhaling at surface, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 007557 |
Stock photo of blue
whale feces, Balaenoptera musculus, with fishing boat deliberately fishing below it, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 007553 |
Photo of endangered
blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, fluke up before dive, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 007551 |
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