00476 Open Mouth Feeding

Sometimes when a Humpback Whale is feeding, it will dive beneath a school of fish and carefully exhale under them. Surrounded by columns of bubbles, the fish panic, bunch together, and swim to the surface trying to escape. The whale simply follows them up with its mouth wide open, closes it around a large portion of the school, and pushes the water out through its balleen. What is left is a large mouthful of fish.