Sentences with phrase «feast on krill»

The current route traverses a steep underwater drop - off just north of these islands — an area where blue whales congregate to feast on krill.

Not exact matches

Hungry humpbacks travel thousands of kilometers to feast on a rich buffet of tiny crustaceans called krill, researchers reported here this week at the biennial meeting of the Society for Marine Mammalogy.

Unfortunately, as monitoring efforts continue, we may see these pretty patterns cut short: warming temperatures could deplete phytoplankton populations, which means less fish, squid, and krill for the birds to feast on, and could affect whether sooty shearwaters have enough energy to make it back to their New Zealand breeding grounds.

But they don't eat krill — orcas have been spotted feasting on gray whale calves.