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Come up close to a life-sized Baby Blue Whale and experience the magnificance of the World’s Biggest Baby for National Geographic Channel, in partnership with Ayala Malls and the Mind Museum, unvieled last November 17 a life-size replica of a baby blue whale in Glorieta 5, Makati. This is in an effort to strengthen and raise the people’s awareness of marine conservation, particularly the Blue Whale.

Well, this is the final leg of the baby blue whale Asian tour. The blue whale are the largest creature to ever inhabit the earth. They are bigger than the greatest dinosaurs, weigh up to 200 tons and are longer than a basketball court. To be specific they extend up to 30 meters long. The blue whales have no teeth but eat four tons of seafood a day, the equivalent of 64,000 hamburgers.

The Big Blue exhibition will run in five different venues on the following dates:Glorietta 5 on Nov. 17-26; Trinoma Mallon Nov. 28-Dec. 11; Alabang Town Center on Jan. 4-17; Market! Market! on Jan. 18- Feb. 2; and Greenbelt Mall on Feb. 3-17.

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A Journey With The World’s Largest Animal

It is the largest creature to ever inhabit the Earth, but we know precious little about them.

National Geographic joined an international research team in a unique journey to film the first blue whale documentary – Big Blue. During the 28 days of expedition supported by the National Geographic Society, we captured the first underwater footage of a blue whale calf, and other major but little-known facts of blue whale through never-before-seen underwater cinematography, computer generated images, satellite imgaing and insights form experts, all to be shown first in this groundbreaking documentary.

Scientists used National Geographic’s CRITTERCAM technology to follow a population of blue whales from California to the Costa RIca Dome, and deployed satellite tags for the first time to follow the epic migration, and listened to hydro-microphones to unravel the complex communication of blue whales.

Big Blue will investigate why these gentle animals have become one of the world’s most endangered species – as a result of threats from humans caused damages to the sea – making the future of the entire species uncertain. Today, fewer than 2,000 blue whales are left in what was the largest-known concentration on Earth – the Antarctic.