Blue Whale coloring page

 Today's new drawing on my free coloring pages blog is of a Blue Whale.

Credit goes to a little boy who I met at my grandson's Tai Kwon Do class. 

This little boy wanted a drawing of a Blue Whale.  So I drew this.

Blue Whale

Blue Whales are the largest living animal on our planet.  Of course, they are ocean animals, so they are not the largest living thing on land.  Blue whales can get up to 110 feet long and they can weigh up to 150 tons. . . or 136 metric tons.  That is 33.5 meters long.  And the females are bigger than the males.

Blue whales are baleen whales so they are filter feeders.  They take a huge gulp of water into their mouth and then they squirt out the water and their baleen captures the plankton and especially krill.  So it is amazing the biggest animal living here on our planet eats some of the smallest living things. And krill is one of the smallest living animals.  

This drawing includes a young Great White Shark and a Giant Squid.  Notice how much smaller they are than the Blue Whale. 

Blue Whales are actually light blue-gray and have dappled gray spots that look like Bob Ross had a giant paintbrush that he was using to paint bushes and clouds on the Blue Whale. 

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, is found by clicking on the "Animals" button and then scrolling down to the bottom of the list.  Click on the title and you will get a printable page.