Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout ... as its food is pushed out of the mouth by its enormous tongue, through strainer-like baleen plates which hang down from ...

Whales with baleen, a filter-feeding system, eat smaller prey like krill, zooplankton and small fish by swallowing large gulps of water and straining it through the baleen plates. Baleen whales ...

The blue whale has one of the largest appetites of any animal, eating up to four tonnes of krill every day. Blue whales, which have baleen plates, feed by taking huge mouthfuls of water and food. They ...

Female blue whales feed heavily in the summer because they largely refrain from eating when ... creatures in its fine baleen plates. It finally swallows to consume the krill.

Filter feeders can also vary greatly in size. For example, baleen whales are filter feeders but so are tiny krill. The food they filter out varies by where they live, but it’s typically made up ...

Humpback whale populations have been increasing throughout many of their ranges since a final moratorium on commercial whaling was established in 1985 by the International Whaling Commission, NOAA ...