What Do Large Blue Whales Eat?

Blue whale is the largest animal in the world. The largest blue whale is as large as thirty elephants put together. Though the blue whale is very large, it feeds on small fish and shrimps.

Blue whales have no teeth at all. On either side of the upper jaw grows two fines of baleen. When the blue whale opens its mouth, it swallows such small animals as fish, shrimps and squids. Then the whale filtrates the water and food with its baleen like a screen; the water flows out of the chink of the baleen and the food remains in its mouth.

Blue whales have extremely good appetites, one blue whale can eat four to five tons of small fish and shrimps a day.