Blue whale heart - photo

[Altair]

Blue whale heart.




Previously:

Artificial bioprosthetic heart - photo
Hunting whales with anti-tank rifles - photo
Heart patient coughs up intact cast of bronchial tree - photo
Inflating human lungs - GIF
Blood flow visualized - GIF

[mklotz]

Let's get this expressed in some common media units...

According to...

https://www.majesticwhaleencounters.com.au/blue-whales

Blue whales can grow up to 100 feet long – the length of a boeing 747!**It could be that blue whales can weigh over 200 tonnes (which would equate to 30 elephants). Or could it be the fact that a blue whale’s tongue weighs 8000 pounds or the weight of two medium sized cars?*

Their heart beat can be detected from 2 miles away and it weighs roughly 1300 pounds. You could fit 5 or 6 adults quite comfortably inside the space of the heart chambers. Blue whales’ arteries are so big in fact, that a full-size human could swim through them, or so it’s said.

but for important stuff they retreat to this intriguing units mix...

A blue whale’s willy is 12 inches in diameter and a whopping 10 feet in length! When retracted it curves up in an S shaped loop inside the body. By comparison, an adult African elephants’ appendage can grow up to 1.8m on average.