{"id":89,"date":"2006-10-28T14:36:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T19:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/89-fun-facts-about-the-blue-whale"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:01:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:01:58","slug":"fun-facts-about-the-blue-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/89-fun-facts-about-the-blue-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Facts About the Blue Whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Blue Whale\" alt=\"Blue Whale\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/bluewhale.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Among all of the whale species in the world one of the most fascinating may very well be the blue whale and here are a few facts to show you why.<\/p>\n<p>1. The blue whale is the largest living creature on earth!<\/p>\n<p>2. The longest blue whale ever recorded was 108 feet in length.<\/p>\n<p>3. Blue whales can tip the scales at 100-150 tons in weight and the females are usually heavier.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n4. Blue whales can swim up to 30 miles per hour but usually cruise at about 12 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>5. Blue whale calves normally weigh about 3 tons and are 20-30 feet in length.<\/p>\n<p>6. Early sailors called the blue whale &#8216;sulfur bottoms&#8217; because of the yellowish green color caste they saw on the whale&#8217;s underside. The color was produced from the collection of microorganisms called diatoms in the cold waters of the Antarctic, North Pacific and North Atlantic regions.<\/p>\n<p>7. Some blue whales even have barnacles attached to them!<\/p>\n<p>8. Blue whales can blow water up to 20 feet high in the air.<\/p>\n<p>9. Blue whales make noises so deep that they can communicate across hundreds of miles of ocean.<\/p>\n<p>10. The average length of pregnancy for a blue whale is a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among all of the whale species in the world one of the most fascinating may very well be the blue whale and here are a few facts to show you why. 1. The blue whale is the largest living creature on earth! 2. The longest blue whale ever recorded was 108 feet in length. 3. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}