Baleen whales eat between 10 and 20 tons a day, a 2021 Nature report found. That’s the caloric equivalent of eating 70-80 thousand Big Macs per day, the researchers told NPR. What do blue whales ...

Whales eat a variety of ocean life, depending on what species you mean. Some have teeth and swallow prey whole while others filter through baleen.

Baleen whales mostly eat small creatures such as zooplankton and small fishes, which they come across in large swarms in the ocean. All baleen whales have baleen instead of teeth which they use to ...

Whales are always on the move, so they have to eat a lot to keep them going. Fortunately, the ocean offers a range of dining options. All whales are divided into two suborders: Odontoceti (those that ...

Baleen whales primarily feed on krill, which themselves primarily eat phytoplankton. Each depends on the other — whales eat the iron-rich krill and redeposit that iron in the upper levels of the ocean ...

Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are the top marine predator, wherever they are found, and seem to eat everything from schools of small fish to large baleen whales, over twice their own size.The ...

Baleen whales feed an estimated 80 to 150 days out of the year, so using these daily intake estimates, the team could get an idea of how much the whales put away in a single feeding season, Savoca ...

Baleen whales eat between 10 and 20 tons a day, a 2021 Nature report found. That’s the caloric equivalent of eating 70-80 thousand Big Macs per day, the researchers told NPR. What do blue whales eat?

Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout Earth's oceans. The huge whales can eat up to four tonnes of krill every day. Blue whales lunge through large swarms of krill ...