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Among the many inhabitants of the Pacific, the blue whale stands out as the largest animal ever to have lived. Stretching thirty meters long and weighing up to 200 tons—equivalent to 28 African elephants—this colossal creature sustains itself by consuming an astonishing forty million krill every day. Preferring their prey, which comes in swarms numbering in the billions, blue whales employ a sieve-like method using their baleen plates to filter out krill from seawater, an impressive feat given the vastness of their culinary ocean.