It’s always fun to blow bubbles, but for one species, it’s anything but child’s play.
It’s how members catch prey.
Check out this incredible aerial footage of humpback whales using a technique called bubble-net fishing in the waters near Alaska.
The whales use the bubbles from their blowholes to round up fish or krill in a circle of - - bubbles.
When the whales rise to the surface, the fish are pretty much trapped in the bubble net, making it snack time for the humpbacks.
Not only was there drone footage from a team of researchers at the University of Hawaii, the whales had cameras and sensors on them with suction cups to see the feeding frenzy from the whale’s viewpoint.
SWNS reports around 3,000 humpback whales head to Alaska during the summer for food, and up to 10,000 venture to Hawaii to breed in the winter.
In the video you see here, they’re fattening up as they make a long journey towards warmer winter temperatures.
Speaking of, researchers wanted to know how shifts to changes in food supply have been hit by climate change and a declining krill population as whale numbers seem to be dropping.
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