Name: Why are blue whales so enormous?
Uploaded: 2022-05-03T20:55:25Z
Duration: 5 min 15 s
Description: Blue whales are the largest animals on the planet, but what helps them grow to the length of a basketball court? Asha de Vos explains why the size of krill make them the ideal food for the blue whale -- it's as if the blue whale was made to eat krill (and krill was made to be eaten by the blue whale). [Directed by Cognitive Media, narrated by Asha de Vos].

Blue whales are the largest animals on the planet, but what helps them grow to the length of a basketball court? Asha de Vos explains why the size of krill make them the ideal food for the blue whale -- it's as if the blue whale was made to eat krill (and krill was made to be eaten by the blue whale). [Directed by Cognitive Media, narrated by Asha de Vos].

Asha de Vos: Why are blue whales so enormous?

Why are blue whales so enormous?

Blue whales, by dining on krill, demonstrate nature's grandeur: evolving into the largest beings on Earth from the smallest meals.

Every gulp a blue whale takes encapsulates 125% of its body weight in water and krill, a feast turning the ocean into a dining room.

At the edge of biological possibility, blue whales' size, capped by the energy returns of lunge feeding, showcases nature's balance.