{"id":28176,"date":"2022-01-27T11:24:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T16:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=28176"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T20:17:30","slug":"top-ten-things-you-didnt-know-about-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/top-10\/top-ten-things-you-didnt-know-about-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Things You Didn\u2019t Know About Whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Find out how to tell the age of a blue whale, which whale has the nicest smile and who is the best at deep dives in this top ten countdown!<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>1) The wax plug found in a blue whale\u2019s ear is made up of layers that can be counted to estimate the animal\u2019s age.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28186\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28186\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-whale-at-water-surface.jpg\" alt=\"blue whale\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-whale-at-water-surface.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-whale-at-water-surface-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue whale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">2) Whales don\u2019t get the water they need from seawater; instead they get water by metabolizing the fat in their food.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28178\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28178\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/humback-whale-breaching.jpg\" alt=\"humback whale breaching\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/humback-whale-breaching.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/humback-whale-breaching-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Humback whale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">3) Whales swim by moving their tails up and down, unlike fish, which swim by moving their tail side to side.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28179\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/whale-tale.jpg\" alt=\"whale tale\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/whale-tale.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/whale-tale-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">4) The blue whale is the largest animal to ever live on Earth; their heart is about the size of a Volkswagen beetle.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28180\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28180\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-whale-worlds-biggest-animal.jpg\" alt=\"Blue whale\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-whale-worlds-biggest-animal.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-whale-worlds-biggest-animal-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue whale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">5) Sperm whales spend about 7% of their time drifting inactively; they sometimes take these naps while standing up vertically.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28185\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28185\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sperm-whale-underwater.jpg\" alt=\"sperm whale underwater\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sperm-whale-underwater.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sperm-whale-underwater-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sperm whale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">6) Blue whales are one of the loudest animals, producing sounds that other whales can hear 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28187\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28187\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-whale-tale.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Whale Fluke\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-whale-tale.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue-whale-tale-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue whale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">7) Hippos are the closest living relative to whales.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28188\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-hippo.jpg\" alt=\"hippo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-hippo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-hippo-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">8) The beluga whale is the only member of the cetacean order that can make facial expressions.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28189\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28189\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/bluga-whale-face.jpg\" alt=\"Beluga Whale\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/bluga-whale-face.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/bluga-whale-face-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beluga whale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">9) Some whales migrate to \u2018rubbing beaches\u2019 which are shallow bays lined with rocks that they rub against, likely to help them shed their skin.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28190\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28190\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/two-gray-whales.jpg\" alt=\"two gray whales\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/two-gray-whales.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/two-gray-whales-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gray whales<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">10) Cuvier beaked whales hold the record for the mammal with the longest and deepest dive. Scientists have tracked a Cuvier beak whale diving down 9,816 feet (2,992 meters) and staying under water for 138 minutes.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28191\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28191 \" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-Cuviers-Beaked-Whale-flickr-credit-Tim-Ellis.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Flickr user Tim Ellis\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-Cuviers-Beaked-Whale-flickr-credit-Tim-Ellis.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-Cuviers-Beaked-Whale-flickr-credit-Tim-Ellis-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cuvier beaked whales. Photo credit: Flickr user Tim Ellis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Which of these whale facts do you think is the coolest?<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find how how to tell the age of a blue whale, which species has the nicest smile and who is the best diver in this top ten countdown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[411,931],"tags":[605,414,131,92,192],"class_list":{"0":"post-28176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-10","8":"category-all","9":"tag-blue-whale","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-mammal","12":"tag-ocean","13":"tag-whales"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}