Gigantic Tail
This is the tail of a Blue Whale when it breached the surface.
Blue Whales is presently the largest animal on earth, growing up to 30 meters in length!
Saw this during a Whale watching tour, very touristic and commercialize now and some Boats going out there can load 50-60 tourists!
During my visit, in-water interaction with the Blue Whales were not allowed and only special permissions are given for research or documentary filming. However, since then, the local authorities have allowed in-water interactions with the Blue Whales aside from other marine mammals, but still just snorkelling and free diving.
The blue whale is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales . At 30 metres in length and 170 tonnes or more in weight, it is the largest known animal to have ever existed.
Long and slender, the blue whale's body can be various shades of bluish-grey dorsally and somewhat lighter underneath. There are at least three distinct subspecies: ''B. m. musculus'' of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, ''B. m. intermedia'' of the Southern Ocean and ''B. m. brevicauda'' found in.. more
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The size of Remora is around 0.5 - 0.7 meter length. Posted 8 years ago