A ‘recently discovered’ whale feeding strategy has turned up in 2,000-year-old texts about fearsome sea monsters
- Written by John McCarthy, ARC DECRA Fellow, Flinders University
A Bryde's whale.worldclassphoto/ShutterstockIn 2011, researchers observed a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales, now called tread-water feeding or trap-feeding. It was thought to be a new technique developed by specific whale communities.
Trap-feeding is one of several whale feeding strategies first recorded in recent decades, including l...





