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Baleen whales eat krill and other plankton, which they strain from the water. Some toothed whales eat fish and squid. "Killer whales" (which are Orca and not whales) eat walruses and seals.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_do_whales_eat
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Whales eat a great mixture of things in the ocean. Many whales feed on fish. Others feed on tiny plankton, like krill. This is one of the great oddities in the animal world. The largest of all mammals survives by feeding on some of the smallest.
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www.thewildclassroom.com/cetaceans/feeding.html
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What Do Whales Eat? ... It eats animals, which makes them a carnivore.The whale eats marine mammals and seabirds. They also eat a variety of fish such as salmon, cod, flatfish, hake, herring, and smelt. They also eat other kinds of whales.
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library.thinkquest.org/J002260F/WhalesFood.htm
library.thinkquest.org/J002260F/WhalesFood.htm
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Whales prey on marine mammals and other sea creatures for food. This abstract would brief you on it. One of the predators of the oceans is the whale. To put it briefly, whales are carnivorous mammals of the Marine biologists and scientists...
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/what-do-whales-eat.html
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Adult killer whales eat approximately 3% to 4% of their body weight in food per day; fully weaned calves can eat up to approximately 10% of their body weight during growth periods.
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www.seaworld.org/infobooks/KillerWhale/dietkw.html
www.seaworld.org/infobooks/KillerWhale/dietkw.html
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Whales don't all eat the same thing. It all depends on what kind of whale they are, or what kind of group they belong to. The smaller kinds of whales belong to the toothed whale suborder. These whales don't have any teeth.
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www.franklinlakes.k12.nj.us/famsweb/curriculum/science/...
www.franklinlakes.k12.nj.us/famsweb/curriculum/science/hpowers/PowersResearch/Research8/BrittniIsci/How%20do%20whales%20eat.html
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Many species of whales eat fish, including the baleen whales (whales with no teeth, such as blue whales, humpback whales, and minke whales) and most of the toothed whales (including killer whales, sperm whales, at least some beaked whales, narwhals and most species of dolphins, to list a few).
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whale.wheelock.edu/archives/ask02/0037.html
whale.wheelock.edu/archives/ask02/0037.html
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That's quite different from other whales, like the grays and the humpbacks, that can go for months without food. ... Mate has been a lot closer to blue whales than most experts, because his research required him to inject a small dart, about the size of a human finger, into the side of blue whales while they were gorging...
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abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98065&page=1
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Q. What do gray whales eat?; A. Gray whales feed on small crustaceans such as amphipods, and tube worms found in bottom sediments. They feed primarily during the summer months of long daylight hours in the cold Arctic waters of the Bering and Chukchi seas.
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www.learner.org/jnorth/search/GWhaleNotes3.html
www.learner.org/jnorth/search/GWhaleNotes3.html
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