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Mohawk, a 49-year-old right whale, was seen feeding among a group of sharks. Mohawk was seen feeding among a group of basking sharks about 35 miles southeast of Portland, according to researchers.
The skim-feeders are right whales, gray whales, pygmy right whales, and sei whales (which also lunge feed). To feed, skim-feeders swim with an open mouth, filling it with water and prey. Prey must occur in sufficient numbers to trigger the whale's interest, be within a certain size range so that the baleen plates can filter it, and be slow ...
Bubble-net feeding is a feeding behavior engaged in by humpback whales [1] and Bryde's whales. [2] It is one of the few surface feeding behaviors that humpback whales are known to engage in. [ 3 ] This type of feeding can be done alone or in groups with as many as twenty whales participating at once. [ 4 ]
The hypothesis that W. rewhenua was a skim feeder suggests that skim filter-feeding may have been the earliest form of feeding in the edentulous Chaeomysticeti clade. [ 1 ] Based on the enlarged temporal fossae and enlarged mandibular canal, Waharoa was probably incapable of lunge-feeding, although it remains unclear whether it could skim-feed ...
Drone videos of gray whales off Oregon have revealed new details about how the marine mammals find food. The findings were described in studies this summer. Drone video of gray whales offers new ...
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In 2018, Pierre Laboute and Philippe Borsa published a paper on sightings of Omura's whale made off Nosy Be in 1991–1995, 1998, and 2000, including photographs of an aggregation of a dozen whales seen skim and lunge feeding in 40 to 80 m (130 to 260 ft) of water in November 1994 at 13° 26' S, 48° 05' E. [54]
North Atlantic right whales were recently seen feeding and socializing in shipping lanes east of the Cape, prompting a call for vessels to slow down. Caterpillar, Spoon and Tux among 31 right ...