Incredible footage: Ukrainian polar explorers showed how a lone humpback whale hunts

>> "Bubble grid" whale/National Antarctic Science Center

Akademik Vernadskyi station biologist filmed a humpback whale hunting with a bubble net. The whale creates a ring around the prey, and then emerges through the center, gathering the food in its mouth.

An incredible video appeared on the Facebook page of the National Antarctic Science Center.

Polar explorers whales were said to spiral around a school of fish or krill, forcing the prey to gather, and then swallow it. This is called bubble netting.

Usually groups of humpback whales participate in such hunts, but researchers observed cases when a single whale made a bubble net. video of biologist Vadym Tkachenko, the report says.

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Scientists indicate that in the video you can see how the whale made a ring around the prey, and then swam up through the center. During the swim, thanks to the large throat folds, he collected everything around him in his mouth. The folds then opened, allowing a large volume of water to be collected, which the whales expel through the baleen plates, leaving the prey inside.

Despite their large mouths, these animals can swallow a limited amount of food because they have a narrow pharynx. . The maximum it stretches is only to the size of a watermelon, the scientists added.