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How do whales discover where krill are?
To find food, whales (and dolphins) use echolocation, which uses sound waves to locate krill or fish. they filter krill out of the water
Do baleen whales eat phytoplankton?
Yes. The blue water takes in large amounts of water and krill into it's mouth and pushes out the water through filters, also called baleen, in it's mouth, leaving the krill, or plankton behind, which the whale then swallows. It's easier for the whale to swallow the krill, if it does not have to swallow a lot of water with it.
How blue whales get food?
They use their giant mouths.
Some whales use these to collect food?
Some whales use huge baleen plates to collect their food. These plates keep the tiny krill inside the whales' mouths while letting them squeeze out excess water.
What is the purpose of Baleen?
Baleen whales eat krill, zooplankton and small fish swarming in large schools. Because baleen whales have no teeth, they are believed to uses their enormous tongue to move food trapped inside the baleen, to squeeze water out of the mouth, and to assist the action of swallowing.
What is the prey for a blue whale?
Blue whales are filter feeders; they filter small organisms such as krill, sardines, etc, out of the water, by use of their baleens.
Why do whales eat ktill?
Whales, that are filter feeders, use baleen plates to sieve their main food of krill.
How do whales eat krill?
It depends on the whale. Blue whales for instance suck in a bunch of sea water that has crill (little shrimp like creatures) in it, then forces the water out with its toung while the crill get caught in something called "baleen" which is like a huge filter (imagine pouring water through an air filter...its something like that. Other whales like orca's (killer whales) have teeth and east seals the same way a person eats food..although there is little chewing, its more like ripping the seal into peivec it can swallow.
Is a whale a carnivore or a herbivore?
It depends on the whale. Whales are generally divided into two groups. One is the toothed whales, which are carnivorous. The other group is the baleen whales, which use baleen to strain plankton from the ocean waters. Plankton is the term applied to an extremely broad group of tiny living things that inhabit a particular zone or depth range in the waters. And there are some that are animals, and some that are plants - which is where we were going with our explanation. The toothed whales are carnivorous, and the baleen whales strain tiny animals and plants from the ocean. Since the baleen whales eat both the tiny plants and animals, they probably aren't herbivores. A link is provided to the Wikipedia article on whales and on plankton. Surf on over and have a look.
Where does the whale get it food?
Whales are generally classed as predators, but their food ranges from microscopic plankton to very large animals. Toothed whales eat fish and squid, which they hunt by the use of echolocation. Killer whales sometimes eat other marine mammals, including whales. Baleen whales, such as humpbacks and blues, mainly eat krill when feeding in the higher latitudes (such as the Southern Ocean). They imbibe enormous amounts of seawater, which they expel through their baleen plates; the krill is retained on the plates and then swallowed. Whales do not drink seawater but indirectly extract water from their food by metabolizing fat.
What is a blue whales teeth made out of?
Baleen is the fibers that Whales that have teeth are toothed whales and their teeth are called teeth. Baleen whales don't have teeth. They have tooth like plates similar to fingernails.Read more http://www.kgbanswers.com/what-are-whales-teeth-called-lexington/4680487#ixzz1GGQztYRImostWhales use to filter their food out of water
Why don't the blue whale have teeth?
Blue Whales and Humpback Whales, (and a few other less known species) don't have teeth because they don't "chew" anything. They are "filter feeders". Whales, the largest creatures on earth, subsist on a diet of one of the smallest creatures in the ocean, Krill. Krill, are small shrimp-like invertebrates, are found in all oceans of the world. They gather in "Swarms" that can have a biomass of several thousand tons. Whales feed on these swarms by opening their huge mouths, swimming into the swarm, scooping up huge mouth-fulls of Krill and water. Then the the water is pushed out through the baleen, (an upper jaw bone that has filter combs) and the the Krill remain as food source for the whale
