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the largest heart to ever beat belongs to a creature that sings
means A massive marine mammal of the order Cetacea that breathes air, nurses its young, and lives entirely in the sea.
from From Old English 'hwæl,' the word for these sea-giants, with relatives across the Germanic family — Old Norse 'hvalr,' Old High German 'wal.' Linguists trace it back to a Proto-Germanic root, and some link it further to a Proto-Indo-European source that may also be a cousin of Latin 'squalus,' a kind of large sea-fish — though that older connection is debated rather than certain. The 'wh-' spelling preserves an old 'hw-' sound that English mouths have long since softened.
- heart size
- Blue whale heart weighs as much as a car
- loud voice
- Calls louder than a jet engine, heard miles away
- old timers
- Bowheads can live over 200 years
- sleep trick
- They sleep with half a brain awake
- baby boom
- Calves drink 200 liters of milk daily
moby dick — fictional white sperm whale from melville's 1851 novel, based on the real whale that rammed the essex in 1820
jonah's whale — biblical great fish that swallowed the prophet jonah, referenced in three of four gospels
blue whale — largest animal ever known to exist, weighs up to 200 tons, found in all world oceans
orca — apex predator whale, hunts great white sharks and whales, found in antarctic waters