动物英语翻译

BLUE WHALE蓝鲸

STATUS:
Endangered
DESCRIPTION:
The blue whale is the largest animal ever to inhabit the Earth. This gentle giant has grayish- blue skin with light spots. It has about 300 to 400 baleen plates instead of teeth which it uses to strain food from the ocean water.

SIZE:
Measuring 70 to 80 feet in length (the longest recorded length was 106 feet), blue whales can weigh as much as 90 to 150 tons. The female is larger than the male.

POPULATION:
Estimated between 1,300 to 2,000, the population of blue whales is dangerously low.

LIFESPAN:
The lifespan of a blue whale is estimated to be 80 years.

HABITAT:
Blue whales are found throughout the world's oceans.

RANGE:
Blue whales generally spend winters in temperate and subtropical zones, migrating toward the polar regions in spring and summer.

FOOD:
A blue whale can eat up to 7,715 pounds