Yesterday morning we were treated to the emergence of four humpback whales. Two mothers and two calves. The National Geographic naturalists said they were feeding on krill and that one of the calves (the larger and older of the two) was learning how to hunt krill. There are some extremely interesting articles on how humpbacks capture schools of herring and krill in bubble nets this link will take you to the Wikipedia entry on humpbacks where this is described. I have included a few photos I took of their activity off the bow.
That is SO cool!
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