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Hawaiian pilot whales eat a shocking amount of squid every single day
Hawaiʻi’s offshore waters host roughly 8,000 short-finned pilot whales. On an ecosystem scale, their collective appetite is ...
Short-finned pilot whales love eating squid, and boy do they stuff themselves with it, new research finds. Here’s some ...
New estimates suggest that individual Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales eat between 82 and 202 squid per day. For the entire ...
How much squid do short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) off the coast of Hawai'i need to consume each day to ...
For the first time, scientists have calculated a detailed “energetic budget” for Hawaiʻi’s short-finned pilot whales, ...
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Scientists reveal how many squid pilot whales eat each day
In the deep, dark waters off the Hawaiian islands, a team of researchers embarked on a mission to uncover the dietary habits ...
Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales are surprisingly voracious hunters, diving hundreds of meters beneath the Pacific to ...
Hunting is an art form for the squid. These deep-sea creatures evolved to thrive in the darkness and also survive its challenges. In an environment where other fish would be ill-equipped, the squid ...
Whales may be known as gentle giants, but they still have a looming presence as the world’s loudest and largest animals. The Antarctic blue whale can weigh up to 400,000 pounds and stretches to 98 ...
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