North Atlantic right whales are filter feeders and primarily feed on zooplankton, as well as krill and other small crustaceans. They use their baleen plates (comb-like structures in their mouth) to filter the tiny organisms from the water.
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Right whales feed by opening their mouths while swimming slowly through large patches of copepods and other zooplankton. They filter out these tiny organisms ...
They also eat smaller copepods, krill and small invertebrates. The whales skim feed or graze; they swim slowly through large patches of copepods with their ...
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Posted: Mar 9, 2022
Posted: Mar 9, 2022
They are very small so right whales need to eat a lot of them to get enough energy: scientist estimate that they eat more than 2,000 pounds of copepods and ...
Right whales eat copepods, a tiny marine zooplankton, and the copepods eat microscopic plants known as phytoplankton. Scientists suspect that in order to find ...
May 30, 2023 · North Atlantic right whales feed primarily on zooplankton, which includes small crustaceans and other small invertebrates like krill ...
May 17, 2023 · When the zooplankton crunch down on the tiny plants, the phytoplankton release a gas. By tracking this gas, researchers could become better at ...
Right whales eat zooplankton called copepods, small animals about the size of a grain of rice. How do right whales feed? Right ...
A baleen whale, it feeds by swimming through a swarm of plankton with its mouth open and the head slightly above the surface. Right whales are found more often ...
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