Sunday, May 11, 2008

Bubble Net Feeding...



Humpback whales are social eaters. Groups assemble off the coast of Alaska, and one is chosen as the bubble-netter. The responsibility of that whale is to produce a curtain of ascending bubbles that create a wall through which the school of fish will not pass. Confused? Read all about this fascinating behavior here...

("Bubblenet Feeding" by David McMaster)

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