1 year ago
Marine biologist here: Baleen whales can't actually swallow anything larger than a softball. They take a huge mouthful of water into their mouths (usually full of tiny critters like krill, which are tiny versions of shrimp, and maybe some small fish), and use their tongues to push the water back out of their mouths while filtering out the krill with their baleen plates (they don't have teeth). Then they swallow all the krill that the baleen trapped. If they accidentally get larger animals in their mouths (like seals or such, which has been witnessed to happen), they reopen their mouths pretty quickly and let them out because they can't swallow them.
@rita1259-y5c
3 years ago
What bragging rights they had afterwards! You could say " Well, this day might be bad, but not as bad as the day I got swallowed by a whale!"
3 years ago
What bragging rights they had afterwards! You could say " Well, this day might be bad, but not as bad as the day I got swallowed by a whale!"
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