A blue whale eating krill. This blue whale is seen feeding and surfacing amid krill with its throat fully engorged with krill and water. It will push the water back out with its tongue, trapping the krill in its baleen which acts like a filter. Aerial photo, Baja California.
Stock Photo: 05837 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Format: Film 3:2 Other Names: Sulphur bottom whale, Sibbald's rorqual, blue rorqual, great blue whale, great northern rorqual, Ballena azul, rorqual bleu, baleine bleue Copyright © Phillip Colla, all rights reserved worldwide. Purchase a print of this image Request a review copy of this image Keywords: aerial, aerial photo, animal, balaenoptera, balaenoptera musculus, balaenopteridae, baleine bleue, ballena azul, big, blue rorqual, blue whale, blue whale aerial, blue whales, california, cetacea, cetacean, creature, crustacean, endangered, endangered threatened species, enormous, great blue whale, great northern rorqual, huge, invertebrate, krill, large, mammal, marine, marine invertebrate, marine mammal, musculus, mysticete, mysticeti, nature, ocean, oceans, pacific, pacific ocean, rorqual, rorqual bleu, sea, sibbald's rorqual, sulphur bottom whale, threatened, whale, wild, wildlife |