Food & Feeding
--- humpback whales are seasonal
feeders and carnivores that filter feed tiny crustaceans and small
fish from the water
--- they are gulpers, filter feeders that alternatively swim then gulp a
mouthful of plankton or fish
--- an average size humpback whale will eat 4,400-5,500 pounds of plankton, krill,
and small fish each day during the feeding season in cold waters
--- they eat twice a day
--- they cooperate in hunting
--- they have about 330 pairs of dark gray baleen plates with course gray bristles
hanging from the jaws; they are about 25 inches long and 13.5 inches wide