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In recent years we’ve learned that humpbacks are generalist feeders with a wide variety of feeding strategies adapted to different kinds of prey.
by jounker 5mo ago
In recent years we’ve learned that humpbacks are generalist feeders with a wide variety of feeding strategies adapted to different kinds of prey.
- timschmidt 5mo agoHumpbacks will switch between Krill (their staple in many regions) and small schooling fish (herring, sand lance, anchovies, etc.). But they don’t eat large fish, squid regularly, or anything like seals - so they’re not “generalists” in the broad, anything-goes sense. They’re still constrained by their baleen filter-feeding system, which limits them to tiny prey