Question 18.94

64. The largest animal ever to live is the blue whale. No blue whale has been weighed as a whole, but estimates are that the largest ones weigh 200 tons, are 30 m long, and have a lung volume of 5000 L. An adult human male 6 ft tall and weighing 200 lb has a lung capacity of about 6 L.

  1. If the human were scaled up to the height (length) of the whale, what would you project the lung volume to be?
  2. If the human were scaled up to the weight of the whale, what would you project the lung volume to be?
  3. image What conclusions would you draw from the comparisons?