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  2. Blue whale - Wikipedia

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    The blue whale's diet consists almost exclusively of krill. [34] Blue whales capture krill through lunge feeding; they swim towards them at high speeds as they open their mouths up to 80°. [34] [69] They may engulf 220 metric tons (220 long tons; 240 short tons) of water at one time. [73]

  3. Crabeater seal - Wikipedia

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    While no reliable historical population estimates have been done, population models suggest crabeater seal populations may have increased at rates up to 9% a year in the 20th century, due to the removal of large baleen whales (especially the blue whale) during the period of industrial whaling and the subsequent explosion in krill biomass and ...

  4. Stunning Video Shows Lucky Diver Swimming Next to Blue Whale ...

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    Blue whales eat almost 9,000 pounds of krill daily, and when it's their feeding season, they eat up to 40 million krill a day. Treehugger also shared this cool fact, "Blue whales, in fact, are the ...

  5. Krill - Wikipedia

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    Krill are also used for human consumption in several countries. They are known as okiami (オキアミ) in Japan and as camarones in Spain and the Philippines. In the Philippines, they are also called alamang and are used to make a salty paste called bagoong. Krill are also the main prey of baleen whales, including the blue whale.

  6. Watch: Blue whales return ‘home’ decades after being wiped ...

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    Blue whales have returned to a part of the Indian Ocean where the species was once wiped out by whaling decades ago. Researchers in the Seychelles have captured footage of the marine mammals in ...

  7. Paddle boarder has close encounter with Blue Whale - AOL

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    Rich German captured this incredible Blue Whale footage from his paddle board using a GoPro camera. The amazingly close encounter occurred approximately 2 miles off the coast of Laguna Beach ...

  8. Bubble-net feeding - Wikipedia

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    As the group circles a school of small fish such as salmon, krill, or herring, they use a team effort to disorient and corral the fish into a "net" of bubbles. [4] One whale will typically begin to exhale out of their blowhole at the school of fish to begin the process. [4] More whales will then blow bubbles while continuing to circle their prey.

  9. Takeaways from AP's reporting on Antarctica's burgeoning ...

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    Tiny but bountiful, Antarctic krill make up one of the planet’s largest biomasses, nourishing everything from fish to giant humpback whales. Takeaways from AP's reporting on Antarctica's ...