How Big Is A Blue Whale Heart

One researcher said the blue whale heart was actually the size of a small golf cart but that s not really true either.

The heart is approximately 5 feet 1 5 meters long from the top of the aorta to the lowest chamber weighs 400 pounds 181 kilograms and can pump 58 gallons 220 liters of blood through a blue. A blue whale s heart is about 5 feet long 4 feet wide and 5 feet tall. It weighs about 400 pounds. The heart in the picture above is obviously a replica but a real blue whale heart weighs roughly 1 300 pounds.

Its heartbeat can be detected from two miles. In comparison to a blue whale a dolphins heart has a heart rate of 35 45 beats per minute and a humans heart has an average heart rate of around 60 80 beats per minute. At a rate of 8 10 beats per minute the blue whale s heartbeat can be heard from over 2 miles away.