Started by Inês Carvalho (@tidepoolkid) ·
Someone stuck a heart monitor on a blue whale
A 2019 study suction-cupped a sensor onto a blue whale. During dives its heart rate dropped to around 2 beats per minute, near what researchers think is the limit for a heart that size.
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- “blue whale heart rate study” (google.com)
- Blue whale (en.wikipedia.org)
- Diving reflex (en.wikipedia.org)
- Largest organisms (en.wikipedia.org)
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