what do whales eat.?

Answer 1

Different whales eat different things. Some, like killer whales, eat seals, dolphins and other largish animals as well as fish. Others eat fish and the largest whale of all eats only very small things like shrimps (called krill) and phytoplankton.

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Answer 2

There are an awful lot of different whales. Some are veggies and eat plankton. Some are carnivorous and eat other marine life. Pay no attention to the guy who suggested McDonald's. Thre is no whale small enough to get in the door

Answer 3

Depends on the whales, some are plankton eating filter feeders, some are carnivorous and eat fish, other vertebrates, even other whales.

Answer 4

Baleen whales eat krill and small plankton. Toothed whales eat larger animals like fish. Sperm whales eat giant squid.

Answer 5

Fish, Krill, Shrimp, Plankton, depends on the whale really.

Answer 6

it depends on the whale but the blue whale eats plankton and krill.
orcas eat seals,sea lions,fish,etc.

Answer 7

It varies between the different sub-species of whales, but most of them live on plankton.

Answer 8

a full-grown blue whale might eat 40 million krill in one day!
Killer whales They feed on fish (including sharks and rays), squid, and marine birds as well as other whales and Sperm whales feed on fishes and particularly on large deep-water squid
So your answer is it depends

Answer 9

most just open their mouth and swallow all what they can catch on their way (I'm being serious). Then their bodies processes it and they remain with the food, which is basically plankton and some little fishes. Ironically, they don't eat big things

Answer 10

Plankon