How does the blue whale eat?

Answer 1

Blue Whales are Carnivores. 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.

They scoop up large quantities of water into their mouth along with krill and other small aquatic creatures and then filters and push the water out. All remaining animals are swallowed.

Answer 2

Blue whales are carnivores, although they only eat very tiny things, no bigger than your pinky finger. Their favorite food is krill, or shrimp-like euphausiids, that are up to three inches long. Blue whales must eat two to four tons of krill a day during the feeding season to survive the rest of the year. They concentrate on feeding during the polar summers primarily around the Channel Islands, Monterey Bay, and the Farallon Islands/Cordell Bank. During the winter months, they migrate to the warmer waters in Mexico and Costa Rica.

Answer 3

The get their food by ingesting it through their mouths. This occurs when a blue whales food is near and the whale swims to it and opens it move to ingest it, and then closes it to be swallowed. The main source of food is Krill and some fishes.

Answer 4

Even though blue whales are the largest creatures alive, they have a throat the size of a grapefruit, and they don't have teeth. This means that they can neither chew nor swallow anything large. They feed mostly on plankton, such as krill, shrimps, etc...

Answer 5

through its mouth and Blue Whales eat krill and on occasion copepods.

Answer 6

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