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Swallowing swimming pools: New sensory tags capture kinetics of lunge-feeding whales

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Mongabay.com

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2016-12-04

Swimming 4 meters per second, a feeding blue whale swings open its jaws and, in four seconds, swallows 140 percent of its mass—a volume of water and krill the size of a big swimming pool or school bus.

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https://news.mongabay.com/wildtech/2016/12/swallowing-swimming-pools-new-sensory-tags-capture-kinetics-of-lunge-feeding-whales/