Kids Do Ecology - The Blue Whale
Kids Do Ecology - The Blue Whale
The Blue Whale is the largest living animal in the world!
Habitat and Distribution
Blue whales can be found in all oceans of the world. They can be seen most commonly along continental shelves and ice fronts, but sightings have been reported in the deep ocean and in shallow inshore regions. The largest populations occur in the Southern Hemisphere, the North Pacific, and the North Atlantic.
In the North Pacific, blue whales can be seen from California through the Gulf of Alaska to the Aleutian Islands. Wintering grounds are off the coast of southern California, Baja California, Taiwan, Japan and Korea.
Blue whales migrate often, which means they move from place to place many times throughout their lives. They like to spend the winters in temperate and subtropical regions, migrating to the polar regions in the spring and summer. The whales in the North Atlantic migrate to the Arctic during the summer and spring seasons. In the southern hemisphere blue whales can be found migrating throughout Antarctica, although not much is known about the migration routes from the feeding grounds to the breeding grounds. In the southern hemisphere blue whales have been reported as far north as Madagascar and Angola in Africa and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru in South America.
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