Re: How big is a Blue Whale's liver?

Hi John,
This sure was a difficult answer to find, but thanks to 
Pamala Wilson ,Internet Coordinator SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database
seaworld.org/buschgardens.org/shamutv.com Animal Questions? Call 1-800-23SHAMU. http://www.seaworld.org/ask_shamu/bluewhale.html  http://www.seaworld.org/animal_bytes/bluewhaleab.html

According to Nishiwaki (1950) Scient.Reps Whales Res. Inst. (Tokyo) 
4:185-209.  The Appx contains organ weights for blue whales. The liver 
weights vary from 560 to 1,347 kg in animals of lengths ranging from 73-89 
feet or weights of 55 to 127.5 metric tons.

For more information on the blue whale go to the following sites.

  Blue Whale: Largest Animal Ever 
  
http://www.letsfindout.com/subjects/undersea/rfiblwha.html 

  Discovering Whales - The Blue Whale 
  
http://whales.magna.com.au/DISCOVER/BLUE/ 


 
http://www.looksmart.com/eus1/.../eus146816/eus330695/eus331085 

 
http://www.wsd1.winnipeg.mb.ca/nnl/Stan_knl/whalpg5.htm 

 http://whales.magna.com.au/

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Network.

June Wingert
Baylor College of Medicine
Department of Comparative Medicine
Houston, Texas