The Big Blue

In a unique spot off the coast of southern Australia, huge luminescent creatures lurk in the deep. As much as 100-feet long, weighing up to 180 tons, with flippers that are 10- to 13-feet long, a heart the size of a Volkswagen and a tongue that ...

Format : Color, DVD, NTSC Publisher : Smithsonian Networks Company : Infinity Resources List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $3.16 You Save: $6.82 (69%) Used Price : $3.85

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In a unique spot off the coast of southern Australia, huge luminescent creatures lurk in the deep. As much as 100-feet long, weighing up to 180 tons, with flippers that are 10- to 13-feet long, a heart the size of a Volkswagen and a tongue that weighs more than an elephant (50 people could stand on it!), the Blue Whale is truly a sight to behold. All hunted almost to near extinction by whalers by the mid '60s, Blue Whales, which once numbered an estimated 350,000, are now a protected species with an estimated 5,000 to 12,000 living in tropical to temperate waters in all the oceans of world. When fully expanded, its mouth is large, holding up to 100 tons of food and water, though cannot swallow an object wider than a beach ball. A Blue Whale requires 1.5 million calories (or 40 million krill) a day to survive.

For the first time, join Smithsonian Networks as HD cameras capture the planet's largest living creature having a feeding frenzy.

Bonus Feature:

• Footprints on the Water: The Nan Hauser Story, which follows the personal quest and ground-breaking work of this American conservationist as she journeys to some of the last unspoiled places on earth on a mission to unravel new clues to the behavior of whales and dolphins.

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