Translation for 'blue whale' from English to Greek

blue whale {noun} [Balaenoptera musculus]

γαλάζια φάλαινα {η}ζωολ.T

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whale {noun}

φάλαινα {η}

blue {adj}

γαλανός

γαλάζιος

κυανός

μπλε

whale shark {noun} [Rhincodon typus]

φαλαινοκαρχαρίας {ο}ιχθυολ.T

dark blue {adj}

σκούρο μπλε

whale-headed stork {noun} [Balaeniceps rex]

φαλαινοκέφαλος {ο}ορν.T

• Marlin and Dory exit the East Australian Current and are consumed by a blue whale which expels them through its blowhole in Sydney Harbour.
• Animal species in the area include beluga whale ("Delphinapterus leucas"), wolf ("Canis lupus"), boreal woodland caribou ("Rangifer tarandus caribou"), North American cougar ("Puma concolor couguar") and blue whale ("Balaenoptera musculus").
• While no reliable historical population estimates have been done, population models suggest crabeater seal populations may have increased at rates up to 9% a year in the 20th century, due to the removal of large baleen whales (especially the blue whale) during the period of industrial whaling and the subsequent explosion in krill biomass and removal of important competitive forces.
• Krill are also the main prey of baleen whales, including the blue whale.
• A single blue whale can yield a blubber harvest of up to 50 tons.

• Cetaceans are famous for their high intelligence and complex social behaviour as well as for the enormous size of some of the group's members, such as the blue whale which reaches a maximum confirmed length of 29.9 meters (98 feet) and a weight of 173 tonnes (190 short tons), making it the largest animal known ever to have existed.
• The Smithsonian Institution coordinated the U.S. government exhibits. It featured a blue whale, the first full-cast of a blue whale ever created.
• The blue whale ("Balaenoptera musculus") is a marine mammal and a baleen whale.
• Similarly, the blue whale used to form large groups between Jan Mayen and Spitsbergen, but is hardly present nowadays.
• The northwestern of Chiloé Island in Chiloé National Park has a great diversity of marine fauna, including blue whale, sei whale, Chilean dolphins and Peale's dolphins; sea lions, marine otters, and Magellanic penguin and Humboldt penguins.

• , to the blue whale, at up to [...]. Vertebrates make up less than five percent of all described animal species; the rest are invertebrates, which lack vertebral columns.