Creature Feature #571: Blue Whale

Due to various commitments, I have been temporarily stalled on the Ps - I have, however, been drawing quite a lot of animals, and so it is time to take a step back and look at a beast I really should have presented for "B".

The Blue Whale is the heaviest animal ever to have lived, weighing around 177 tonnes and measuring up to 30 m in length. Even her tongue weights 2.7 tonnes. Her diet consists almost exclusively of krill, occasionally copepods; she devours up to 40 million a day. These are sifted through her baleen. She is not social,generally living alone or with a single individual and only gathering in loose groups when food is plentiful. Blue Whales were almost hunted to extinction during the peak of whaling, although their preferred targets were generally the smaller Right or Sperm whales. She is now classified as Endangered.