Preserved heart of blue whale weighs 181 kg
Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth. These majestic marine mammals that rule the oceans weigh as much as 200 tons (about 33 elephants) and have huge hearts. World Wildlife Fund. Recently, Harsh Goenka, known for sharing interesting posts on Twitter, posted a picture of a blue whale’s heart. Notably, the giant heart is preserved and displayed at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada.
Mr Goenka shared the picture and wrote, “This is a preserved heart of a blue whale weighing 181 kg. It is 1.2 meters wide and 1.5 meters tall and its heartbeat can be heard from more than 3.2 km away.
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This is a preserved heart of a blue whale weighing 181 kg. It is 1.2 m wide and 1.5 m tall and its heartbeat can be heard over 3.2 km away. pic.twitter.com/hutbnfXlnq
— Harsh Goenka (@hvgoenka) March 13, 2023
Internet users were mesmerized by the picture and shared varied reactions.
One user wrote, ‘Wow universe has its own creativity from plants to animals and humans. How beautifully made from an ant to a whale.” Another commented, “Wow! Now we should mention the whale’s heart instead of the lion’s heart.” The third said, “Oh, that’s interesting. Thanks for the info.”
according to a Wired Report, The carcass of a female blue whale washes up on the shores of Rocky Harbour, a town in western Newfoundland, Canada, in 2014. Thankfully, it was in good enough condition that enabled technicians at the Royal Ontario Museum to preserve it.
“Its sheer size accelerates decay, so it’s remarkable that we had to salvage a heart,” said Jacqueline Miller, who led the first conservation effort of its kind. Along with the staff, I had to get the heart out of the chest cavity, through a window made through the ribs, and into a dumpster bag.”
The preserved whale heart was finally displayed to the public in 2017 after three years of intense work, which included extracting, dilating, shipping and plastination of the heart.
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