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The bowhead whale eats up to 50,000 crustaceans a minute by forcing water through its 700 baleen sheets, using its 300 kg/660 lb tongue. Bowheads can be extremely long-lived. In 2000 one specimen, killed by hunters, was found to be 211 years old.