The Best Blue Whale Drone Footage on YouTube 2023!

The blue whale. The largest animal to ever live on our planet. Its heart is the size of a small car and its tongue alone weighs as much as an African elephant. But blue whales go beyond their enormous size. They're also exceedingly beautiful. It's almost impossible to believe that an animal 33 times larger than a t-rex still lives among us today. Blue whales visit San Diego each and every summer in search of krill, their primary food source. New research suggests that blue whales eat three to four times more per day than we previously thought, meaning some blue whales might eat as much as 30,000 pounds of krill in a single day. Even a baby blue whale is larger than my 30-foot boat. Once over 300,000 blue whales roamed the oceans. Now a mere fraction of those numbers remain. While blue whales are now protected, many threats to their long-term survival still remain. Their food source is so polluted with microplastics, it's thought that blue whales are consuming as much as 10 million pieces of microplastics each day. Having been brought back from the brink of extinction once before, the blue whale has shown to be remarkably resilient when given the chance. We must protect our oceans because I don't want to live in a world without the blue whale.