Do blue whales eat birds?
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Keeping this in consideration, do whales ever eat birds?
Their throats are too small to swallow a human, Gorter told Live Science, though some baleen whales have been documented to accidentally swallow small birds. Humpback whales, he said, have been found with Cassin's auklets in their stomachs, but those birds grow to only about 9 inches (23 centimeters) long.
Secondly, how often does a blue whale eat? When it comes to eating food the blue whale can consume as many as 40 million krill per day, which ends up weighing close to 8,000 pounds of food on a daily basis!
Simply so, do blue whales eat fish?
Rorquals generally eat larger prey than do right whales. Depending on species, they eat a variety small crustaceans, squids, and small schooling fishes. Blue whales eat mostly krill. Fin whales eat krill, copepods, squids, and variety of small schooling fishes.
Has anyone been eaten by a blue whale?
James Bartley (1870–1909) is the central figure in a late nineteenth-century story according to which he was swallowed whole by a sperm whale.