Do you know what blue whales eat? Well I do so your in luck! The diet of a blue whale is mostly very small creatures called krill, these creatures are just a slim too large to exit the whale's mouth.they are tiny, that's no opinion! Scence these creatures are so microscopic a whale can swallow about 4 tons at one time speaking of which, about 40,000,000 krill are swallowed every day due to size! Is that crazy or what?! Blue whales don’t have teeth so what is the solution? They swallow food whole, thanks to baleen. Baleen does not let the whale swallow salt water, such a cool job.Like our hair and nails baleen is made of keratin,for some reason I’m thinking about mustaches oh right, baleen looks like a mustache one more thing about baleen there are about 800 plates of baleen in a blue whale’s mouth! Hmm I wonder, what baleen acts like… oh right it acts like a filter in a blue whale’s mouth. I have been wondering how wide their esophagus is that's right it is only a few inches wide. How many calories can a blue whale burn? 300,000,000 a day! That is all I have for you about a blue whale’s diet! Please read on.
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