Baleen whales eat a diet of small fish and zooplankton. Their diet changes depending on where they are. In the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, they live on krill, a small shrimp-like zooplankton. In the waters of the Arctic, however, the same species of whale will eat small fish instead. These whales are filter feeders. They take a great mouth full of water and then close their mouths and squirt the water back out through the baleen which acts like a sieve, letting out the water but trapping any fish or plankton in the baleen. Often the whales feed cooperatively. 'Bubble-netting' is a good example of this where several whales swim in ever smaller circles around a school of fish or krill blowing bubbles as they go, herding their prey into a tight mass, then swimming up through the concentrated school of prey with their mouths open. Some migrating whales, like the humpback, may not feed for several months while they are migrating and in the tropics, feeding again only on their return to colder waters during the summer.
Yes. Its favorite food is "Krill". An Adult blue whale can kill upto 40 million krill per day. They can eat nearly 3500 kilograms of krill in a single day. They need nearly 1.5 million kilocalories of energy per day and so, they nearly eat nonstop. Small fish, crustaceans and squids too get caught when they trap krill in their mouth.
Yes: blue whales subsist on a diet of mainly krill (a type of shrimp).
Yes, right whales are baleen whales. They have no teeth. They have baleen, whalebone, to strain out water and keep in plankton, krill and shrimp to swallow and eat.
Baleen Whales eat krill using the Baleen in their mouth.
Baleen whales swim with their mouths open and capture plankton, fish, krill, shrimp, octopus, various crustaceans and other sea sediments from the water with their baleen bristles. Sperm whales and killer whales have teeth. They eat fish, squids, birds, sea turtles, dolphins and even other whales.
baleen whales eat large whales
Baleen whales Are CARNIVORES as their main food is KRILL which are tiny shrimp-like ANIMALS.
Baleen whales eat krill and other plankton, which they strain from the water. Some toothed whales eat fish and squid. "Killer whales" (which are Orca and not whales) eat walruses and seals.
Humpback Whales eat mostly baleen.
Baleen whales eat nothing but plankton, mainly krill, which is a very small type of invertebrate; to be exact, it's a tiny shrimp (arthropod ==> crustacean). They sift these tiny shrimps out of the sea water through their baleens. Whales generally migrate with the huge swarms of plankton, utterly dependent on them.
Baleen whales don't eat Dolphins. Baleen whaled can't eat Dolphins. Baleen whales are filter feeders. They don't have the teeth to take a dolphin apart, and can't swallow anything that big.
Baleen whales eat krill (by filtering it through their baleen plates; hence the name).
Bryde's Whales are Baleen Whales so that means it will eat Krill and some Phytoplankton.
Baleen whales feed by filtering or straining food from the water. They love to eat krill, fish, zooplankton, phytoplankton, and algae