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Tipping the scales at up to 135 tonnes, the blue whale is the largest animal on our planet. Seeing the gigantic size of its jaw bone on display at the CIMM, visitors sometimes ask: how much food can this whale ingest in a one bite… in one day… in one year?<\/p>\n

The blue whale feeds exclusively on a tiny crustacean called krill and eats it by the ton, literally. In a single day of feeding, a blue whale can ingest 16 tonnes of krill, or 12% of its own body weight<\/a>! This is what we learn from a study published last November in the scientific journal Nature<\/em>. Thus, members of this species might eat three times more prey than previously believed. Paradoxically, this is good news: the uptick in the number of whales could be even more beneficial than previously thought for the ocean ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tipping the scales at up to 135 tonnes, the blue whale is the largest animal on our planet. Seeing the gigantic size of its jaw bone on display at the CIMM, visitors sometimes ask: how much food can this whale ingest in a one bite… in one day… in one year? The blue whale feeds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":57128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[48,61],"class_list":["post-57150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whale-qa","tag-alimentation-en","tag-rorqual-bleu-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow much food does a blue whale eat? - Baleines en direct<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tipping the scales at up to 135 tonnes, the blue whale is the largest animal on our planet. 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