Animal Endangered Blue Whales
Channel: Animals and Us
Date: 2021-03-21

Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
Big, giant, massive, immense, enormous whale! The blue whale is an extremely large marine mammal, with a long, torpedo-shaped body. They have blue-gray colored skin, with a slightly lighter colored underside; they have two pectoral fins, a small dorsal fin on their backs, and a large fluke.
The magnificent blue whale is endangered as a result of people's activities in the past and today. Hunting and killing whales is called whaling and has killed hundreds of thousands of blue whales from the early 1900s until it became illegal in 1966.
Several factors contribute to whales' current endangered status, such as overfishing, pollution, dam/bridge construction, private/commercial boating, and commercial whaling. Still, commercial whaling has had the largest effect on the endangered status of today's whale populations.