A Sea Lion Hunting Fish, Suddenly Bitten by a Humpback Whale and a Hilarious Scene Emerged
In the underwater world, it's a 'big fish eats small fish' food chain. When a school of fish is found, it always attracts the ocean's creatures,The gathering of multiple predators,But in Monterey Bay, California, USA, photographer Chase Dekker captured an unexpected and hilarious scene: a school of fish attracted seals, seabirds, and other predators. When the seals were hunting, a giant humpback whale opened its mouth and bit the seal, seemingly about to swallow it, which was very dangerous but ultimately ended safely.The photographer introduced: This seal is not small, it should be an adult seal, usually more than 300 pounds, and this humpback whale is also huge. When the humpback whale opens its mouth to hunt for fish,it can swallow 1000-2000 liters of waterand small fish in the water are swallowed in one bite.
Humpback whales generally do not attack seals, so they usually can evade the whale's mouth,The sealwas unexpectedly caught in the whale's mouth. In the photographer's capture, it also shows that this seal should be very frightened. When the seals are fishing, other predators are also hunting seals, which is a circular connection within the food chain.An unexpected and funny scene appeared, familiar
Humpback whalehabits: the whale's mouth is very large, making seals around the whale roll up and feel very scared, as if they are about to be swallowed. But humpback whales cannot swallow large food because their esophageal diameter is very small, they can only feed on small animals, especially small crustaceans with a body length of less than 1 centimeter, so other large food, humpback whales will let it go.Humpback whales have multiple ways of feeding, one of which is very wonderful, that is, firstly, the rush-feeding method, the lower jaw is opened wide, the body is tilted or arched towards the shrimp swarm, then close the mouth, the bottom of the lower jaw is folded open, swallowing a large amount of water and shrimp, and finally expelling the water to swallow shrimp.
Humpback whales' swallowing is filtering food, without teeth chewing,Small fish and shrimp are the main food of humpback whalesand the diameter of the humpback whale's whale mouth can reach 4.5 meters, forming an angle of more than 90 degrees, and can swallow a large amount of small shrimp or small fish.Pay attention to six-dimensional nature, follow the natural flow and understand nature!
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