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OKIsItJustMe

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4. Remove the bottom of the food web, and the top will certainly suffer
Thu May 28, 2026, 02:11 PM
4 hrs ago
https://marinepatch.com/what-do-gray-whales-eat/


What Do Gray Whales Actually Eat?

Although gray whales eat very little whilst on their long migration, they may come across and eat schooling squid, krill, crab larvae, ghost shrimp, plankton, and small fish.



How Do Gray Whales Catch Their Food?

Gray whales are baleen whales which means they have plates of whalebone on each side of their upper jaw that they use as a filter to extract food.

These whales are some of the only whales that consistently feed off the bottom of the ocean.

They use their baleen and roll on their side to suck up sediment which will catch plankton, larvae, small fish, tube worms, and anything else that is down there.

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Plankton equals oxygen. cbabe 5 hrs ago #1
Plankton equals life OKIsItJustMe 5 hrs ago #2
Also... 2naSalit 4 hrs ago #3
Remove the bottom of the food web, and the top will certainly suffer OKIsItJustMe 4 hrs ago #4
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