{"id":4518,"date":"2019-10-16T11:25:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T11:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/?p=4518"},"modified":"2019-10-16T11:27:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T11:27:49","slug":"clip-of-the-week-humpback-whales-lunge-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/16\/clip-of-the-week-humpback-whales-lunge-feeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Clip of the Week &#8211; humpback whales lunge feeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Clip of the Week<\/h3>\n<p><span>This week&#8217;s clip is an aerial shot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/stock-video\/aerial-shot-of-four-humpback-whales-(megaptera-novaeangliae)-lunge-feeding-in\/search\/detail-0_01621740.html\">five humpback whales<\/a> (Megaptera novaeangliae) lunge feeding in a shoal of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus), with some fish jumping out of the water. It was filmed in Troms, Norway, in January, by Espen Bergersen.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/348409946?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Lunge feeding<\/h3>\n<p><span>Lunge feeding involves the whales herding the fish into a tight group, then lunging into the tightly packed prey with their mouths open, engulfing huge amounts of fish and water. The water is then filtered out via the whales&#8217; baleen plates, and the fish retained. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Espen said:<\/h3>\n<p><span>&#8220;Humpbacks, like orcas, work together in groups to catch herring, but the whales are probably not related to each other. Their hunting technique is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/stock-video\/aerial-shot-of-two-killer-whales-(orcinus-orca)-swimming-inside-a-large-shoal\/search\/detail-0_01621795.html\">quite different<\/a>. It is very exciting to follow a group of feeding humpback whales. You see the group do a synchronised dive, then you just have to wait. You never know when or where they come up again, or if there will be any action at all. But if the hunting is a success, the whales come to the surface like rockets with wide open mouths, filling up with herring and water. It&#8217;s a spectacular view!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery gallery-4518 style-scrollingstrip'><figure class='gallery-item col-0'><div class='gallery-icon landscape'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559709.jpg\" class=\"attachment-gallery-strip-thumb size-gallery-strip-thumb\" alt=\"Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) bubble net \/ lunge feeding on herring (Clupea harengus) at dusk, pod co-operative feeding, Kvaloya, Troms, Norway, November\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559709-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559709-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559709-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559709-320x183.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559709-375x214.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559709-600x343.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559709-900x514.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559709-186x106.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) bubble net \/ lunge feeding on herring (Clupea harengus) at dusk, pod co-operative feeding, Kvaloya, Troms, Norway, November\" \/><\/div><div class=\"gallery-overview-caption\"><strong>Humpback whales lunge feeding on herring<\/strong> by Espen Bergersen<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><figure class='gallery-item col-0'><div class='gallery-icon landscape'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559696.jpg\" class=\"attachment-gallery-strip-thumb size-gallery-strip-thumb\" alt=\"Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) lunge feeding on herring (Clupea harengus) one lucky fish is escaping, note the baleen plates, Kvaloya, Troms, Norway, November\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559696-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559696-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559696-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559696-320x225.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559696-375x264.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559696-600x422.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559696-900x633.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01559696-151x106.jpg 151w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) lunge feeding on herring (Clupea harengus) one lucky fish is escaping, note the baleen plates, Kvaloya, Troms, Norway, November\" \/><\/div><div class=\"gallery-overview-caption\"><strong>Herring escaping from humpback whale!<\/strong> by Espen Bergersen<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><figure class='gallery-item col-0'><div class='gallery-icon landscape'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01612001.jpg\" class=\"attachment-gallery-strip-thumb size-gallery-strip-thumb\" alt=\"Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) Lunge-feeding- showing baleen plates Southeast Alaska, USA\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01612001.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01612001-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01612001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01612001-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01612001-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01612001-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01612001-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01612001-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01612001-375x250.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01612001-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/01612001-159x106.jpg 159w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)\nLunge-feeding- showing baleen plates\nSoutheast Alaska, USA\" \/><\/div><div class=\"gallery-overview-caption\"><strong>Humpback whale lunge feeding, showing baleen plates<\/strong> by Mark Carwardine<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .gallery -->\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clip of the Week This week&#8217;s clip is an aerial shot of five humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) lunge feeding in a shoal of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus), with some fish jumping out of the water. It was filmed in Troms, Norway, in January, by Espen Bergersen. Lunge feeding Lunge feeding involves the whales herding the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/16\/clip-of-the-week-humpback-whales-lunge-feeding\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"button\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}