A Bryde's Whale
Don’t you hate that they call themselves NatGeo now?
Anyways, whilst shooting some marlins recently off Baja, some Nat Geo photogs got some pics of some Bryde’s Whales feeding. Unlike many other baleen whales, they feed on sea creatures larger than plankton, sometimes as large as mackerel and sardines.
According to Nat Geo:
Surprisingly little is known for sure about this species. Lacking thick layers of valuable blubber, Bryde’s weren’t much targeted by whalers. They’ve had scant attention from scientists, in part because they can be tough to find. Bryde’s travel solo or in small pods and can dive to a thousand feet. Reported mostly in warm, equatorial waters, they probably breed year-round and may use low-frequency calls to find each other across great distances. But details of their movements, mating habits, and population status are sketchy, and sometimes inferred from better-known kin—making a wild encounter with Bryde’s in the vast, blue ocean even sweeter.
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