: planktonic crustaceans and their larvae (order or suborder Euphausiacea and especially genus Euphausia) that constitute the principal food of baleen whales
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Though leopard seals are widespread and abundant, overfishing, retreating sea ice and warming waters mean that krill and penguins, their main food sources, are both in decline.
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Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
In Sri Lanka, for example, an unregulated bubble of whale-watching and swimming around blue whales popped when the animals moved farther offshore, possibly following krill, but also perhaps fleeing the attention.
—Maggie Shipstead, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2024
But with warming oceans and disappearing sea ice caused by climate change, along with the threat of overfishing, the seals’ main food sources—krill and penguins—are disappearing.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
To nourish their enormous bodies, blue whales eat as much as 10 to 20 tons of krill per day, which can come to around 12 percent of their body weight.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
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Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
In Sri Lanka, for example, an unregulated bubble of whale-watching and swimming around blue whales popped when the animals moved farther offshore, possibly following krill, but also perhaps fleeing the attention.
—Maggie Shipstead, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2024
But with warming oceans and disappearing sea ice caused by climate change, along with the threat of overfishing, the seals’ main food sources—krill and penguins—are disappearing.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
To nourish their enormous bodies, blue whales eat as much as 10 to 20 tons of krill per day, which can come to around 12 percent of their body weight.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
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krill
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: small crustaceans and their larvae that make up plankton and form a major food of baleen whales
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