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Is no one going to mention the "35 to 50% milk fat"? [emoji54]
ISTR cow's milk is around 4%, bodybuilding indeed. Put a whole pony keg where your six-pack used to be. [emoji1]
 
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Jim_MDP said:
Is no one going to mention the "35 to 50% milk fat"?
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Makes sense. For cows, milk provides both nutrients and water. Whales don't really need the water component, except as a solvent for the nutrients.
 
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When it comes to eating food, the blue whale can consume as many as 40 million krill per day, which ends up weighing close to 8,000 pounds of food daily!

Note: Instead of krill, the baby blue whale consumes milk during its first 6 – 18 months of birth and can drink as much as 150 gallons of milk per day during its first year.
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That is a lot of krill. It's amazing ocean levels don't fall with that much krill being eaten. Apologies to Steven Wright.

Also, 150 or 250lbs? Now I'm curious how that number is generated.
 
Ryan O'Dine said:
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That is a lot of krill. It's amazing ocean levels don't fall with that much krill being eaten. Apologies to Steven Wright.

Also, 150 or 250lbs? Now I'm curious how that number is generated.
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I think I once read that krill are the most numerous multi-cellular critter on the planet. I have reservations about that as I'd guess they suffer from endoparasites, multiple nematodes per krill that is. But whatever - there's a lot of krill out there :)
 
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In the Southern Ocean, one species, the Antarctic krill, makes up an estimated biomass of around 379,000,000 tonnes,[3] making it among the species with the largest total biomass. Over half of this biomass is eaten by whales, seals, penguins, seabirds, squid, and fish each year.
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GlennB said:
I think I once read that krill are the most numerous multi-cellular critter on the planet. I have reservations about that as I'd guess they suffer from endoparasites, multiple nematodes per krill that is. But whatever - there's a lot of krill out there :)
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There's a lot of ******** too. Maybe we could get the whales to eat them?
 
OK. As I read it, it was a lower portion of the jaw that juts outward.

Meanwhile, sloths can hold their breath underwater much longer than dolphins. With or without a chin. :)
 
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