WHALES TRAVEL GREAT DISTANCES TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE BEST
BREEDING GROUNDS AND FEEDING SPOTS.
These gentle giants are famous for their singing abilities
-belting out seductive ballads to attract mates or to challenge
other would-besuitors. But they also have other talents. Their
unique hunting skill, called bubblenet feeding, involves a group
of humpbacks working together to capture schools of herring.
Each whale has a particular role in the process: One whale swims
in a circle while blowing bubbles under a school of herring.
When the bubbles rise, the school ofherring can not escape and
form into a tight ball in the center. Other whales vocalize
-grunting or screaming - to scare the herring to the surface.
The whales then rise with their mouths wide open to capture
large amounts of fish.
