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Krill and copepods are classified as zooplankton, which are small, drifting aquatic organisms that play a crucial role in marine food webs. They are primary consumers, feeding on phytoplankton and serving as a significant food source for larger marine animals, including fish, whales, and seabirds. Both groups belong to different taxonomic categories within the animal kingdom, with krill being crustaceans and copepods being a subclass of crustaceans.
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What do Antarctic fish eat?
Fish, krill, copepods.
What do blue whales like to eat?
Krill and occasionally copepods!
What likes to eat blue whales?
Krill and occasionally copepods!
What do giant siphonophores eat?
Siphonophores eat copepods, krill, other small fish and occasionally other jellies
Does whales eat phyotplankton?
No. They eat zooplankton (krill, copepods, mysids, etc.).
What fish do whales eat?
Blue whales are known to usually eat krill and copepods. A blue whale can eat up to 8,000 pounds of krill during it's peak season.
What is the Right Whale - herbivore carnivore or omnivore?
The Right Whale is a herbivore. They primarily feed on zooplankton, such as copepods and krill, by filter-feeding using their baleen plates.
What do petrels eat?
petrels eat fish and fish musselsthey eat mainly copepods and krill, as well as small squid and fish.
Are auklets herbivores omnivores or carnivores?
carnivores they eat stuff like krill and zooplankton
How abundant are plankton?
The most abundant zooplankton are copepods and krill, which are tiny crustaceans. They are the most numerous animals on Earth.
What eats sei whale?
Killer whales. They have been reported attacking sei whales off Argentina.
Can krills eat zooplankton?
Krill can eat some small types of zooplankton such as copepods amphibipods and lots more different types of zooplankton
