Do baleen whales eat shrimp

Answer 1

Baleen whales eat a diet of small fish and zooplankton. Their diet changes depending on where they are. In the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, they live on krill, a small shrimp-like zooplankton. In the waters of the Arctic, however, the same species of whale will eat small fish instead. These whales are filter feeders. They take a great mouth full of water and then close their mouths and squirt the water back out through the baleen which acts like a sieve, letting out the water but trapping any fish or plankton in the baleen. Often the whales feed cooperatively. 'Bubble-netting' is a good example of this where several whales swim in ever smaller circles around a school of fish or krill blowing bubbles as they go, herding their prey into a tight mass, then swimming up through the concentrated school of prey with their mouths open. Some migrating whales, like the humpback, may not feed for several months while they are migrating and in the tropics, feeding again only on their return to colder waters during the summer.

Answer 2

Yes. Its favorite food is "Krill". An Adult blue whale can kill upto 40 million krill per day. They can eat nearly 3500 kilograms of krill in a single day. They need nearly 1.5 million kilocalories of energy per day and so, they nearly eat nonstop. Small fish, crustaceans and squids too get caught when they trap krill in their mouth.

Answer 3

Yes: blue whales subsist on a diet of mainly krill (a type of shrimp).