{"id":5012,"date":"2010-12-16T13:12:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T18:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2019-07-25T12:00:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T16:00:51","slug":"ballooning-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/ballooning-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballooning Whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\">The Blue whale (<em>Balaenoptera musculus) <\/em>is able to stretch its mouth cavity along specially designed groves on its throat to take in its own weight in water, so a 90 ton whale could take in 90 tons of water! Once a Blue whale has filled up they will filter the water for krill (a small shrimp-like crustacean), then let the water out and mow down on some tasty krill, 6-7 tons a day to be exact!<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5013\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5013  \" title=\"blue_whale_ocean\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue_whale_ocean.jpg\" alt=\"blue whale ocean\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue_whale_ocean.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue_whale_ocean-420x420.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue_whale_ocean-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_9265000\/9265623.stm<\/div>\n<div>http:\/\/www.eol.org\/pages\/328574<\/div>\n<h5><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4752\" style=\"border: 0px solid;\" title=\"ER-LOGO-FROG\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ER-LOGO-FROG-215x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"77\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\"> <\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"..\/..\/games\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"..\/?cat=3\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"..\/..\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much water can you hold? <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/content\/wildwire\/blue_whale_ocean-236x160.jpg\" alt=\"blue whale ocean\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[130,92,192],"class_list":{"0":"post-5012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg_animals","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-eating","11":"tag-ocean","12":"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\/5012","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=5012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}