Humpback whales are filter feeders and eat small fish and crustaceans, mostly krill. They herd and disorient their prey using several methods. In one, called “bubble-net feeding,” one whale ...

By filming humpback whales working together to feed - something we witnessed in ... "There's generally one animal blowing a bubble net around the prey and the other animals have these individual ...

A young humpback whale wrapped in fishing net beached in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, stoking calls for fishermen to avoid abandoning ...

The patterns made in this process are stunning. One photo of bubble-net feeding by humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) even won the 2024 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year ...

The humpback that ... St. Lawrence/Gotham Whale “It would do those tail-throwing behaviors. We also had a day where it was breaching, and we also saw it lunge feeding — when it comes up ...

The book "Marine Mammals of the World" states that humpback whales feed in polar waters and migrate up to 9,900 miles each year to tropical or subtropical waters to breed and give birth.