How Large Are Blue Whales Really? Size Comparison

The Blue Whale is the largest animal of our time and the largest animal that ever lived. But how large are they exactly? This animation will show you.
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[@keviar245]

its really awesome when you think about it that the largest animal to ever exist is still ALIVE. amazing times we live in.

[@taviakovaciny9453]

Um nah whales aren't even real

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@@taviakovaciny9453 why do you think this? No hate, just curious

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@@enyafeckenham5730 I made a video about it on my channel. I tried to send you the link to it but it didn't work XD

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I swear you're better at this than most actual tv documentaries

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They are really good.

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This is maximum knowledge nice presented in 20min. 90% if todays TV documentaries are stupide, repetitive action scenes with atleast 5min information in 1hour.

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David attenborough is the best

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[@awesomename2544]

The fact that the biggest animal ever isnt some prehistoric monster and something that we can go see is just amazing to me.

[@logic6615]

The fact that you see any large prehistoric animal as a monster is amazing to me

[@awesomename2544]

@@logic6615 monster, noun: a thing or animal that is excessively or dauntingly large.

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@@logic6615 i meant no disrespect to my boys in the mesazoic

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@@awesomename2544 aight bet shout out to the dinos for being awesome 👌

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@Baldhina Asnake That really isn't concrete evidence though. They only found a bone (or more not sure) for it.

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Quality over quantity, I like it. Your animation is getting really good too, props!

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Seems kinda ironic considering how much work went into these TWENTY MINUTES of video, right? Jawdropping...

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I never realised T-Rex isn't that much bigger than an elephant and that Stegosaurus is actually smaller! Amazing production quality here by the way, FiM.

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Thanks!

[@enazmisey5963]

The T. rex graphic is misleading, though. African bush elephants stand 11 ft tall, while T. rex could reach almost double that height at 20 ft. They weigh about the same however, as T. rex was more lean for its size because of its role as a hunter.

[@Al.j.Vasquez]

Until you see an elephant in real life and realize how large they, I've never seen one but I'm probably lowballing their size in my imagination

[@pixelfox9666]

@@Al.j.Vasquez I'm definitely with you here. It's easy to forget just how *massive* elephants really are. The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C., U.S.A., has the largest elephant ever recorded on display in the lobby. It stands 13 ft (4 m) high. Putting that in perspective, the average adult man in the U.S. stands 5' 9" tall (176 cm). In other words, one man standing on the other man's shoulders still wouldn't be able to look that beast in the eye. Even more everyday specimens are huge; look up photos of African elephants online and you'll see tons of photos of elephants standing beside cars that could easily drive underneath the animal's belly without touching.

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@@pixelfox9666 Yeah, we have a hard time grasping size and volume, like how much size difference there is between a muscular guy like me at 5'10, next to another muscular guy that's 6'4, it's a whole different thing, not just height, we don't really imagine volume and mass accurately. If a T-Rex was slightly larger than an elephant, that's still too big and too dangerous for a land predator, if not even elephants are safe, Jesus Christ.

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The idea that we get to live alongside and observe the biggest animal that has EVER existed is truly an incredible thing

[@goodreason3123]

bro what if whale wanted to change its identity to become small again?

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@@goodreason3123 if their food source becomes scarce there will be two options, they will become extinct or the smaller blue whales due to some genetic factor will do better and become the standard model

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Is it as big as BLACK HOLE

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Not as amazing as a Black Hole

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This video is like whale's milk: incredibly rich and dense with nutrients. I learned so much more than the modest title suggested.

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If anyone travels too Iceland i can definately recommend the Reykevik Whale Musuem which is filled with life sized replicas of the all the whales found in the northern hemisphere including the Blue and Sperm whales. It really makes you feel so very small compared to these amazing creatures.

[@pinkfloydeagles34]

That's awesome! The American Museum of Natural History in New york city also has a lifesize blue whale replica hanging from the ceiling in the ocean hall. It's enormous, blew my mind many times as a kid

[@PropaneWP]

I've been to a similar museum in Norway. They had a 1:1 replica of a blue whale hung from the ceiling. It's really something else to see it in person. I've seen many videos of blue whales, but none of them have managed to convey the imposing awesomeness of that replica.

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"They can't swallow anything wider than a beach ball." Oh thank god.

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You can still end up in its mouth though, just not its stomach. Luckily they spit you right back out.

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Well if you end up in a whale’s mouth you’re pretty much dead already lol.

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I bet it could still easily kill a person swimming nearby.

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I’m disappointed how tiny T Rex’s truly are

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I'm so happy blue whales are starting to have a comeback, even if it's just small

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They have no predators basically and live longer than most humans. They need not our pity.

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@@sorrymrgoogle2601 We ARE their predators, if it wasn't for us over fishing them they wouldn't be in this situation in the first place

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sorry mrgoogle. The adults have no predators but the babies do, orca whales have been seen preying on calves, yet it’s extremely rare

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I just watched a 20 min video about the size of a whale. Honestly it felt like 1 minute, such good quality and informative.

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That's pretty cool when you honestly think about it, your living in the time of the biggest animal to have ever existed on planet Earth.

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biggest one we have found. anything bigger would also be in the oceans. and also deep water. so finding a fossil would be more difficult

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@@jayrush01 It's highly unlikely any other creature grew bigger than the Blue Whale, we would have found something, even a tooth, like Megalodon.

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@@AlexOjideagu2 giant squid attack whales. and we only knew of their existence when we caught one. they mainly die i the depaths if the ocean. we dont even really know what lives down there now, let alone hundreds of millions of years ago. we are always finding stuff.

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Energy spend: 2000 KCAL Energy gained: 200.000 KCAL Whales: *STONKS*

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It makes me sad that 99% got killed off..

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Nice, only mistake I heard was the whale shark is the largest shark. The Whaleshark is niether a whale, or a shark, is is a fish.

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Thanks!

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I did NOT know until this video that blue whales could live up to 90 years, that is ASTONISHING but also sad what we've lost

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8:38 You'd need an impressively large book to awkwardly attempt to hide that.

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we lost dinosaurs, we lost megaladon, we lost predator x, but we still have Blue Whale.. We have to save it..❤️

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It's so cool that in the tiny amount of time we have spent on Earth as a species we get to see the biggest animals that ever lived in over one billion years of life on Earth.

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5:02 for a sec i thought it was an actual comparison of blue whales to the earth lmao

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The massive amount of sheer knowledge/data in this video is in fact equal to the size of a blue whale. Really appreciate the work put into it.

[@caroliniert]

The accent couldn’t be more German lol

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I like it :3

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Really? i could barely tell it was German.

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Hold up this dude is german

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yep ... cringed quite a lot of times during the otherwise very interesting video

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[@sinsf9220]

Wow! The details and presentation are fascinating. I found myself sharing the link with my daughters and texting various bits of info as it presented itself. For example, the massive growth, 9 lbs an hour, 200 lbs per day. We could pretty much watch them grow! And the conditions that allowed for their overall growth as a species. Great stuff.

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Whale baby gains 9 lbs per day. Quarantine me: Challenge accepted.

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*per hour, 200lbs per day

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Fantastic animation and information, well worth the wait! I don't normally have the patience or attention span to watch a 20 minute video on this topic, but you kept mine easily :)

[@chloepechlaner7806]

I also think the gigantism is one of the most effective ways of avoiding predation. Even the largest toothed whales can be preyed upon by other superpredators (though generally sperm whales win fights), but pretty much nothing aside from humans can harm an adult blue whale. The evolution of larger whales also coincides with the extinction of several animals that preyed upon whales; though that also can be explained by the cooling oceans.

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[@peteandrepete528]

Beautiful creatures. When I was a kid a blue whale washed up on a beach not too far from where I lived and it was massive . I really didn't realize how big until I saw it for myself. They moved it few feet and buried it pretty well right on the beach. It was dug up and made its way to the Vancouver aquarium on the other side of the country. It's on display there.

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I really think there is nothing that can help us to truly understand quit how enormous these guys are, unless we were face to face with them in the ocean

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Most people who haven't been up close to even what would be considered 'average' animals fail to truly understand their size--people stand next to horses, cows, wolves, full grown pigs, for the first time and are stunned by how dwarfed they are. Seeing is truly believing, especially for something so unfathomably large.

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7:26 seeing the startling decline in numbers because of whaling really saddened me, thank you for this video

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8:36 is it just me, or did he say “in particularly /whale/ endowed individuals”?

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This is an amazing video. The quality of the information in it is incredible. I had no idea why blue whales were able to achieve their ridiculous size, but you not only explained it clearly, you also accurately characterized the challenges of reaching such sizes as well as the the fragile balance of ecology that must exist in order to support such behemoth creatures. Like most people, before this video I labored under the misconception that baleen whales were mostly able to achieve such sizes simply because the water supported most of their weight. But of course their energy requirements would be the primary limiting factor; you are what you eat, quite literally.

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An animal almost the length and diameter of the fuselage of the space shuttle, that still lives and can be regularly seen today, is mind boggling. That's like an 8 to 9 story slim skyscraper swimming in and blasting out of the water. Holy crap

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The insane facts coupled with your relaxing voice made this one of the most interesting videos ive ever watched

[@roadboat9216]

Thanks for this very enlightening video. It is especially interesting to me because of an experience that I had. My wife and I were sailing the Sea of Cortez, Mexico. We we about 5 miles off shore approaching the San Jose Channel. We were sailing along nicely at about 6 knots We saw spouting a half mile or so off. About 5 minutes later a spout blew all over us. Shocked we saw a giant Blue Whale right next to us. He appeared to be about twice the size of our 46 foot sailboat. He stayed calmly next to us ( which was more that we could do) for at least 5 minuets........Right next to us! His blow hole looked like a person could easily fit down it like 2 oval manholes! He then calmly sounded and was gone. We felt him very gently brush us a time or two. During the 5 minuets. We have never been so scared and excited at the same time in all of our decades of cruising the oceans. Indeed a most magnificent creature.

[@vladimirvlad2563]

I can only imagine that spouting's STENCH!

[@roadboat9216]

@@vladimirvlad2563 There was certainly no missing it.

[@jayrush01]

"blue wales evolved for an amimal similar to todays house cat" ....... i been staring at my cat for 5min now...

[@kylestanley7843]

Similar in size, though I believe they're unrelated in anatomy and heritage ;)

[@fatdobber9772]

It’s an honour to be alive at the same time as these amazing creatures

[@empressmarowynn]

A museum by me once had an exhibition on whales and they created a plastic life-size blue whale heart for people to interact with. It's hard to comprehend just how big an animal is until you can literally climb inside its heart.

[@ChrisUhlik]

Superb use of relative comparisons to put amazing facts into context. Extremely well explained. Nice!

[@Dezbo]

You are one of the most underrated KZbin channels, I hope you get More popular soon

[@jamieundead1232]

Wow man this was a very comprehensive video, I like the visual aids and all the charts and diagrams. You did a really nice job with this and I am impressed. Keep up the good work.😊

[@ledernierutopiste]

One of the greatest video i've seen on youtube, this quality is amazing ! Keep doing this please, i know it might be more profitable to do shorter videos with less quality, but this kind of videos just makes me happy, thank you very much !

[@Facts.inMotion]

Thanks! And I will - dont worry ; )

[@joshuaeicke5714]

I never realized how close we came to actually making blue whales go extinct :O

[@hiyorisarugaki1830]

Considering we have a huge data set for Blue Whales, and nearly nothing on dinosaur, It is highly likely we have seen, or ever will see, the true size of sauropods. Some are expected to weigh over 300 tonnes.

[@TJ-sc1pm]

Wow I always love how much work you put into your videos!

[@tadhgogorman3459]

Facts in Motion: How did whales get so big? Blue Whale: I_T_S C_A_L_L_E_D D_I_R_T_Y B_U_L_K_I_N_G

[@monalisa3549]

I hope this beautiful animal's number increases year by year and never goes down.

[@IamINERT]

Imagine in the middle of the ocean when its night time and you fall into the water only to see a blue whale equivalent to the largest size everrecorded coming straight at you. Man that would probably give someone a heart attack or PTSD.

[@MXknowsHow]

You couldnt see anything at midnight in the water. It would be pitch black.

[@xN0XvRVLEZx]

yea plus im pretty the whale would avoid you anyway.

[@yaseenameen545]

Spoiler: blue whales are big.

[@alexholt5932]

What the hell man!?! I didn't see the vid yet >:(

[@dansbilzarans2119]

but are their load bigger than sperm whales?

[@triedbuttdied]

no, they are YUGE

[@briankristiansen821]

Lol

[@jerryking296]

FUCK YOUUUUUU!!! GODDAMNIT

[@dannyjames4216]

That was one of THE BEST documentaries I have ever seen. Well done and subscribed.

[@theconduit61]

Absolutely fascinating. Love the thorough research involved in this lecture. Wonderfully presented, as well.

[@RevJamesCostello]

Just think, as we enjoy this video in our nice, warm houses, a Blue Whale is swimming along in the the middle of the freezing cold ocean.

[@awesomeTai]

But they got they krill blubber

[@hugoclarke3284]

Subscribed, this is the greatest tribute to the legendary Blue Whale I have ever seen. Thank you for explaining about the effort required in feeding - people tend to imply that they just leisurely keep their jaws open and swim on autopilot.

[@NAUS_EN]

Glorified blue gentle dolphins giants

[@Belisarius536]

SharkyPanda they are NOT dolphins, did you not just watch the video?

[@NAUS_EN]

@@Belisarius536 this was NOT a serious statement, do you not understand the concept of a joke?