Video Shows Surprising Humpback Feeding Behavior
National Geographic
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October 21, 2013
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If you watched humpbacks only from the surface, you'd think that was how they got all their food. But a team of scientists has been putting tags on the whales to snoop on them underwater. (NationalGeographic)

Humpback whales are known for their unique feeding behavior - called bubble-netting - at the water's surface. But researchers noticed the whales also spent a lot of time on the bottom. By mounting cameras on the animals, researchers saw for the first time that these whales were bottom-feeding.

Read more about what researchers learned from this whale's-eye view at National Geographic

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