The sei whale ( or ), Balaenoptera borealis, is a baleen whale, the fourth largest rorqual after the blue whale, the fin whale and the humpback whale.

Description The sei whale is the fourth largest balaenopterid, after the blue whale (up to 180 tonnes, 200 tons) and the fin whale (up to 70 tonnes, 77 tons) and the humpback whale (upto 40 tonnes, 44.5 tons).

The animal's large size aids in identification, and it is usually only confused with the blue whale, the sei whale, or, in warmer waters, Bryde's whale.

An adult blue whale can eat up to 40 million krill in a day.

The blue whale, the biggest creature that exists on the planet that is wrong, completely wrong.

The blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whales (Mysticeti).

Here's a blue whale call at 50 miles, which was distant for the humpback.

The first published description of the blue whale comes from Robert Sibbald's Phalainologia Nova (1694).

During the first seven months of its life, a blue whale calf drinks approximately of milk every day.

It is the second largest animal after the blue whale, growing to 27.3 metres (89.5 ft) long and weighing nearly .

One of the most visited spots in the city is the Praça da Baleia, the end of the beach of Costa Azul.

And then imagine being Bruce Mate's team from OSU, getting up close to a blue whale and fixing a tag on the blue whale that stays, an engineering challenge we've yet to really overcome.

The blue whale, it's a dwarf if compared with the real biggest creature that exists on the planet that is, this wonderful, magnificent Sequoiadendron giganteum.

A blue whale's tongue weighs around and, when fully expanded, its mouth is large enough to hold up to of food and water.

This is a plot from Christopher Clark who tracked one individual blue whale as it passed by Bermuda, went down to the latitude of Miami and came back again.

Whale shark in Mozambique.

I've never seen a whale.

In Japanese, the whale was called iwashi kujira , or sardine whale, a name originally applied to Bryde's whales by early Japanese whalers.

And they said, Blue, blue, we love blue. Let's do it blue.

This is a blue whale. We have blue whales in the waters around here, off Maldives, around the waters of India. You can see them off Kerala.

It's baleen. Moving on.

Is London a great big whale?

Have you ever seen a whale?

A whale is a mammal.

The whale is a mammal.

Despite the size of its mouth, the dimensions of its throat are such that a blue whale cannot swallow an object wider than a beach ball.

The blue whale is usually classified as one of eight species in the genus Balaenoptera one authority places it in a separate monotypic genus, Sibbaldus , but this is not accepted elsewhere.

Other common names for the blue whale have included Sibbald's rorqual (after Sibbald, who first described the species), the great blue whale and the great northern rorqual.

This is a bowhead whale.

I've never seen a live whale.

Have you ever eaten whale meat?

Have you ever eaten whale meat?

Is eating whale meat wrong?

Two subspecies have been identified the northern sei whale ( Balaenoptera borealis borealis ) and southern sei whale ( Balaenoptera borealis schlegelii ).

But some of them were not whale meat at all.

The first such one is called The Whale Hunt.

Imagine that whale listening from 500 miles.

I've never seen such a large whale.

I've never seen such a large whale.

Indigo and turquoise were changed to royal blue.

The bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus ) is a species of the right whale family Balaenidae, in suborder Mysticeti and genus Balaena .

So we start with white, blue, blue, white.

Cerro Azul ( blue hill in Spanish and Portuguese) may mean any of several different places Cerro Azul, Veracruz, in Mexico Cerro Azul, Panama Cerro Azul, Peru Cerro Azul, Paraná, Brazil Cerro Azul, Misiones, Argentina Cerro Azul (Ecuador volcano), a volcano in the Galapagos Cerro Azul (Chile volcano), a volcano in Chile, aka Quizapu

The best way to distinguish between it and Bryde's whale, apart from differences in baleen plates, is by the presence of lateral ridges on the dorsal surface of the Bryde's whale's rostrum.

The mantle was originally purple, but varied during the 17th and 18th centuries between celestial blue, pale blue, royal blue, dark blue, violet, and ultramarine.