Lunge Feeding Blue Whales: Rare Drone Footage of this Spectacular Behavior! 

Makes me cry, this is so beautiful.

It doesnt happen! Drones have created amazing moments

It's only rare because we didn't have drones before. We'll probably see way more of this.

​@@plica06 and because whaling decimated whale populations. Protections have helped but as very large animals living in a very spaced out habitat it has taken a long time for those protections to significantly help the populations.

They are so intelligent. Thank the Lord they are now protected. We share this planet and must protect all life.

Great job yelling out the plane for others! I would have been screaming to tell the others! That’s a very busy shipping lane where you saw him or her and incredibly lucky-congrats!

Beautiful!

Maybee yu'd like the STAR TREK movie ... about whales & extraterrestrials

@@saturn722 What does all that have to do with blue whales? I was thinking of the ways we have damaged our environment and driven so many creatures to extinction. That is the troubled planet I was speaking of.

Yeah, you’re right. I removed my comment. Unfortunately the more people there are the more food and planet resources we need. Im pretty sure it’s not as bad as the media makes it sound. In fact just in the last 50+ years man has recognized the importance of conservation and have actually saved many species from extinction. Conservation laws have been in place for many different animals and have prevented their demise. Life can be very resilient as long as man acts responsibly.

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Truth.

Exactly.

That’s the feeling!!! 😌🥹🤗

Thank you for the support and following along!

Drones actually being used for incredibly useful purposes!These videos are beautiful!❤

Amazing!

Love you Anna!

Me too, almost can't stand how beautiful this is, if that makes sense.

I’m glad I’m not the only one. 😢They are truly magnificent.

@@DolphinDroneDom Ill go with you next time, if you want? I take pictures with a Nikon..not nearly as good as the drone but lovely as well!

Speaking of which, I've wondered where the whale's eyes were... a tongue-twister, I realize... although I truly couldn't spot any eyes on them - as I wanted to see whether they looked happy and expressive - but alas, all mouth and no peepers. Are Lunging Blue Whales by any chance blind, or am I? If it is me who's missing something, may I please trouble you to add a time-stamp into a reply, in which the whale's eyes are visible. Thanks.

@@laurisafine7932 I was thinking the same thing, didn't see the eyes.

@@martychamplin7793 Ah, a kindred soul😊. I also thought it's ''groovy skin'' looked somewhat plastic and wondered whether it was [partly] AI generated, or enhanced🙄. Thx.

​@@laurisafine7932 Wenn ich richtig gesehen habe, kann man das Auge 👁‍🗨 bei 0:53-0:56 , 1:45-1:47 , 2:17-2:20 sehen. Es befindet sich knapp oberhalb des Mundwinkels. Wie gesagt, wenn ich richtig gesehen hab. 😊

Glad you enjoyed! It’s super super rare to witness a Blue surface feeding!

that's because there are tens of thousands of humpbacks while only a few dozen or hundred Blue ones.

Indeed, so beautiful, so rare. Thank you for sharing this.

Mine too.

lol

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Goofball❤

Cliche af using star wars tropes and the word suddenly consecutively

Right!

I so wish i had come up with my flabbers are ghasted ......I bow in awe both to that statement and this stunning video!

Hope you have an amazing time!🙏🏼 Would love to do this someday - send those whales my love!💕

Stay away and leave the whales to peace in nature.To many noisy tourists disturbing the equilibrium of the oceans let alone pollution.

@@idkwhodos2840 you will! And thank you!

@@sarahjones-jf4pr me staying away isn’t going to stop it . But I agree with you. But the tours won’t stop just because I stayed away. Have a great day!

@@tracybranson1699 If everybody thought that way of course it will never end.....sad and the great day I will have is when nature is treated with the respect it deserves.

I was about to ask the same question.

Part of it is the way they deal with predators. Blue whales and most rorquals tend to flee without fighting back when confronted by predators such as orca so they have a leaner torpedo shape and don't have any body "armor" like callosities and barnacles. Whereas right and humpback whales tend to fight back so they have a more chunky maneuverable shape and attachments like barnacles. Humpbacks have them on their fins to act like giant knuckledusters.

Great Question!

Better Hygiene

​@@hrishikeshnair586I've learned with humpbacks in particular, barnacles have a Symbiotic relationship with the whales.

Not so. Reports of Blue whale and humpbacks off Australia show some very lean whales that have not been able to adequately feed. 400,000 of tonnes of krill were netted from the Southern ocean by factory boats in 2020 and with climate change the great south polar current is speeding up affecting habitat for wales. Scientists are very worried about the impact on baleen whales from increasing krill capture.

Based on the World Register of Marine Species (WORMS) blue whales are actually Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758). Sibbaldius is an out of date naming.

@tursiopsgirl8, nope, the Balaenoptera genus is polyphyletic, the only species of the genus is the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus), all rorquals belong to the family Balaenopteridae but not all rorquals belong to the genus Balaenoptera, only the fin whale does Based on this classification, all other extant rorquals are now believed to be more closely related to the Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) than they are to the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus), for this reason, all these eight other extant rorqual species are relocated to four separate genera, Rudolphius for only the Sei Whale (Rudolphius borealis), Rorqualus for the Omura's Whale (Rorqualus omurai), Rice's Whale (Rorqualus ricei), Bryde's Whale (Rorqualus brydei), and Eden's Whale (Rorqualus edeni), Pterobalaena for the two species of minke whale being the Arctic Minke Whale (Pterobalaena acutorostrata) and the Antarctic Minke Whale (Pterobalaena bonaerensis), and Sibbaldius for only the Blue Whale (Sibbaldius musculus) Not only there are now six extant genera of rorquals (family Balaenopteridae), there are also in fact three subfamilies of rorquals, Balaenopterinae for only the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus), Rudolphiinae for the Sei Whale (Rudolphius borealis), Omura's Whale (Rorqualus omurai), Rice's Whale (Rorqualus ricei), Bryde's Whale (Rorqualus brydei), and Eden's Whale (Rorqualus edeni), and Megapterinae for the Arctic Minke Whale (Pterobalaena acutorostrata), Antarctic Minke Whale (Pterobalaena bonaerensis), Blue Whale (Sibbaldius musculus), and Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), with the subfamilies Rudolphiinae and Megapterinae being sister taxa to the exclusion of Balaenopterinae, thus making the fin whale the most distantly related from all the other extant rorquals.