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There are lots of fun facts about baleen whales. Here are few fun facts on how they feed.

• Baleen whales are one of the largest animals yet they feed on some of the tiniest creatures.
• Baleen whales eat small fish, krill and plankton no larger in size than grains of rice.
• Baleen Baleen whales are filter feeders meaning they stain their food from water.
• Baleen whales trap food in their baleen, the rough comb-like plates that hang from their upper jaw, in the same way as a sieve.
• Baleen whales have two distinctive feeding styles. Some lunge, some skim.
• Right, bowhead, pygmy right and gray whales are skim-feeders. They swim slowly, mouth open, and skim their prey off the surface. Right whales can skim-feed for hours.
• Most rorquals - fin, Bryde's Eden's, blue, humpback and minke - are lunge-feeders. They swim quickly into a school of chow and take in large mouthfuls of food and water.
• Humpback whales lunge-feed in an unusual way. They trap their prey in a cloud of bubbles and then herd them to the surface. Humpbacks lunge at the herded prey taking in as much as they can.