Blue whales can swim fast, with burst up to 20 knots. Long and streamlined, they are capable of sustaining speeds of 5 to 10 knots while traveling or foraging for food. Enormous muscles in a blue whale's caudal flanks and peduncle power its wide flukes up and down.
Blue whale fluking up before a dive, Baja California (Mexico).
Image: 03332
Species: Balaenoptera musculus
Common name: Blue whale
Lat/Long: 32° 43' 8.07"N, 117° 16' 1.01"W (Coordinates: 32.71891°, -117.26695°)
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Other Names: Sulphur bottom whale, Sibbald's rorqual, blue rorqual, great blue whale, great northern rorqual, Ballena azul, rorqual bleu, baleine bleue
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