Sentences with phrase «whale of a mouthful»
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The toothless whale then filters the mouthful, swooshing it out through dangling fringes of baleen, which snag what's worth swallowing.
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Baleen whales get their name from the frayed slabs of fingernail - like material they use to strain tiny crustaceans and small fish from mouthfuls of seawater.
The tagged minkes also gulped down a remarkable number of mouthfuls of krill per dive compared with other baleen whales, which all catch prey using a behavior known as lunge feeding.
The whale probably couldn't suck in big mouthfuls of water like today's baleen whales, though.
Baleen whales like the blue whale suck in enormous mouthfuls of water and then force it out through the baleen filter hanging from their upper jaw, retaining prey such as krill and small fish.
A juvenile male whale shark gulps a mouthful of water under a fishing platform in Cenderawasih Bay.
Blue whales lunge through large swarms of krill with their mouths open, taking in more food in one mouthful than any other animal on Earth.
Most baleen whales feed by taking a large mouthful of food and water, and then push the water out gaps between their baleen plates with their tongues.
Ashes and Argonaut the Humpback Whales were engulfing enormous mouthfuls of herring just minutes from Telegraph Cove.