Author Norsk bokmål: F. Kester
Description
Norsk bokmål: Capture de Baleinopteres a Tromsoe (Norvege)
English:
Subject: Whaling, Blue whale, Tromso (Norway)
Geographic Subject: Norway--Tromso
Tag: Aquatic Mammals
Date 1913
Source/Photographer
Norsk bokmål: Clerc-Rampal, G. (1913) Mer : la Mer Dans la Nature, la Mer et l'Homme, Paris: Librairie Larousse, p. 230
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_37324_Capture_de_Baleinopteres_a_Tromsoe_(Norvege).jpeg
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whales (Mysticeti). It is the largest animal known to have ever existed. Blue whales were abundant in nearly all the oceans on Earth but their numbers have been greatly reduced due to whaling. |
