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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 ]
“We were watching a humpback whale named ‘Zillion’ lunge feed through many bait balls in the area. On one particular lunge, afterwards we noticed the whale kept opening and closing its mouth ...
Julie McSorely and Liz Cottriel were in a kayak together watching humpback whales during feeding season. In the video, you can see the whale engulfing both the women and the kayak in its mouth.
A humpback whale straining water through its baleen after lunging. Rorquals feed on plankton by a technique called lunge feeding. [24] Lunge feeding could be regarded as a kind of inverted suction feeding, during which a whale takes a huge gulp of water, which is then filtered through the baleen. [24]
Humpback whale breach sequence. A breach or a lunge is a leap out of the water, also known as cresting. The distinction between the two is fairly arbitrary: cetacean researcher Hal Whitehead defines a breach as any leap in which at least 40% of the animal's body clears the water, and a lunge as a leap with less than 40% clearance. [2]
A humpback whale lunge-feeding on schooling fish known as menhaden in the waters of Raritan Bay. NOAA attributes most whale deaths to vessel strikes and entanglements, conveniently answering the ...
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Lunge feeding is an extreme feeding method, in which the whale accelerates from below a bait ball to a high velocity and then opens its mouth to a large gape angle. This generates the water pressure required to expand its mouth and engulf and filter a huge amount of water and fish. Lunge feeding by the huge rorquals is said to be the largest ...