Tortoise - Whale (blue)

Tortoise - Whale (blue) (001)

Nickname: the living island

Type: shell, giant

Animal Characteristics. (1 = Tortoise, 2 = Whale (blue))

Size = 2, Strength = 2, Speed = 1, Agility = 1, Attack = 1, Defence = 1, Intelligence = 1, Fly = 1, Swim = 1, Climb = 1.

ComboAnimals Ratings.

Deadly Rating (out of 5): 1. Friendly Rating (out of 5): 2. Cool Rating (out of 20): 15. Adaptability Rating (out of 5): 2.

Fun bit of Information

Covered in moss, trees, small bushes this comboanimal is often mistaken as an island and not a living creature. This comboanimal will float in the sea with its shell exposed above the water surface for months. It will live for 140 years and float around the world every year returning to the same land to hibernate.

Physical description

A tortoise with the stomach, blowhole lungs and the mass of the largest animal in the world, the blue whale.

Weighing up to 199 tonnes it weighs as much as the blue whale which is largest animal known to exist. It is 20m wide and 20m long. A fully grown adult is potentially 2,840 times bigger than the average adult human.

Comboanimal Information

It has the appetite for fish that a whale has and for this reason it spends most of its time floating in water. It will float aimlessly in the sea looking for its next meal with its head submerged under water. Like a whale It can hold its breath for 60 minutes at a time and it breathes through its blowhole which is positioned on top of its head. It can keep its head underwater for months if it wanted to providing it keeps its blowhole above the water surface. It can sleep with its head underwater, with half its brain awake to make sure it lifts its blowhole above surface water to breathe every hour. It can survive for several months without food and water. It will float like this without ever raising its head for months on end. The living island only comes to land to hibernate during winter or in the case of females to lay eggs.

Adults can live up to 140 years old meaning some living today were alive during the age of sail.

Diet: Vegetation and fish

Habitat: the sea

Location: south of the equator, tropics

Ratings Reasoning

Low adaptability rating because it’s large cumbersome size and poor agility make it vulnerable to humans who piggy back on it and use it to float to new lands.