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Jul 14, 2022 ... What do they eat? ... Like other baleen whales, blue whales have expandable pleats (or baleen) which allow them to take in huge amounts of water ... Their expandable throat groves allow them to gulp huge volumes of water, which they push back out through the baleen, trapping their prey inside like a giant ... Apr 3, 2024 ... A whale's diet varies by species. Odontocetes, or whales with teeth, use echolocation to hunt their food with sound rather than sight. They eat ... What do blue whales eat? Ironically, the largest animal on the planet survives by eating one of the smallest. Feasting mostly on krill – a tiny shrimp like ... Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, primarily feed on krill, which are tiny shrimp-like crustaceans found throughout the world's oceans. Jan 6, 2023 ... What do blue whales eat? Blue whales feed almost exclusively on krill. During the summer months, they can consume as much as 40 million ... The blue whale's primary diet consists almost exclusively of krill, a small oceanic creature that generally measures 1-2 centimeters long. Apr 1, 2023 ... A blue whale eats between 10 and 20 tons of food a day. Blue whales lunge into patches of prey about 200 times a day. That amount of food is ... Nov 30, 2012 ... The 30-second manoeuvre — two half turns, performed either side of engulfing a meal — enables the whales to position their jaws underneath their ... ... blue whales would find Stellwagen uninhabitable for any length of time. Quite simply, there is little here for a blue whale to eat. Krill, the favored food ...