How Whales Eat

We found out that the humpback whale has no teeth. It has baleen. Baleen is made out of the same stuff  as our finger nails. It acts like a sieve to trap the little krill that humpback whales eat.

We put on our scientist's hats and experimented on how whales eat their food. We had sieves that were the baleen whales and tweezers that were toothed whales.

We had fish (carrots) and parsley (Krill) for the whales to eat.

We tried catching the food with tweezers and sieves.

We could catch a fish with one bite.

We could get lots of krill with one gulp.

We could get a little bit of krill with one bite.