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Blue whale

Make room! Here is the animal holding all the records! My heart is as big as a car, my body length can reach that of a 10 storey building and I weigh about 140,000 kilos, or as much as 30 elephants! I am the biggest and heaviest animal that ever existed! I only feed however on small crustaceans called krill (tiny shrimps). To satisfy my giant appetite, I have to eat 4 tonnes of krill each day, filtering it in my mouth through hundreds of baleen plates, made from the same material as nails.

I am a mammal and need to surface regularly to breathe air. Although I have been long been hunted for my blubber and meat, I am now protected and my species is recovering.

However, for all marine animals alike ocean pollution represents a new danger. We must take care of our oceans to keep them full of extraordinary animals!

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