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

Mongabay
Dec 2, 2016, 2:20 pm181 pts
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. The creature then rapidly decelerates to filter that first serving and gear up for the next one, repeating…

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