Carousel feeding is one of several orca hunting tactics ... gulping fish before the orcas could pick them off, and the fin whales merely showed their curved fins as they caught a quick breath ...
I first learned about this issue in early 2022, when a colleague working aboard a cruise ship told me that he had seen approximately 1,000 fin whales feeding on krill near the South Orkney Islands ...
They usually are spotted alone or in groups of two or three and use side-lunging as a way of feeding on schools of fish, the NOAA said. Fin whales are hunted by commercial whalers, which has ...
A humpback whale has been spotted feeding in the Firth of Forth ... Photographer Greg MacVean managed to get shots of its tail and dorsal fin breaching the water on Sunday. Whale watcher Lyndsay ...
These whales' massive heads and jaws accommodate hundreds of baleen “teeth.” Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen plates and bristles to ensnare tiny ...
The whale had distinctive scarring on its dorsal fin that indicated it may have had ... and we also saw it lunge feeding — when it comes up right underneath that bait fish to swallow that ...
fin, blue and right whales) are now feeding in South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands waters in summertime. Humpback whales were the first species to be hunted commercially in the Scotia Arc ...