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00:00Would you be scared when the world's largest animal swims towards you?
00:03That's the blue whale, a giant creature that lives in the depths of the ocean.
00:08The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth, weighing about 400,000 pounds
00:13and up to 108 feet long, which is equivalent to the combined weight of 130 family cars.
00:20These behemoths also eat an astonishing amount of food.
00:24Adult blue whales consume about 17,000 pounds of food every day,
00:29which is equivalent to swallowing 3 million krill and small fish.
00:33Their baleen acts as a filter, filtering the seawater and leaving food when they open their mouths.
00:39Despite their huge size, blue whales are gentle creatures and pose no threat to larger marine life.
00:46The sounds made by blue whales exceed 180 decibels, which is louder than the noise of a jet taking off.
00:53Some people believe that these sounds are their calls to their companions,
00:57while others interpret them as the blue whale's lonely cry.