What Do I Eat?
I am a humongous mammal. I’ll tell you what I eat and how I eat it. I eat plankton and krill, tiny little shrimp-like crustaceans! How do I keep them in my mouth? Very good question. I have a special hairs in my mouth called baleen, which act as a filter-feeder. I suck the water into my mouth. The plankton and krill get swept in with the water. Then I spit the water out, but thanks to my baleen, the plankton and krill stay in! Do you know that I have to eat up to forty million plankton and krill just to stay alive?! It’s because I am so huge. My body needs a lot of food to keep going, it burns about three million calories per day! I have at least eight hundred baleen in my mouth, and that’s a good thing! I need to eat a lot!