Drone footage shows Eden whale’s ‘lunge feeding’ strategy in gulf of Thailand

A drone footage of a mid-migration humpback whale’s lunge feeding strategy shot at the Gulf of Thailand has given the Internet new insight into how the mammoth fish opportunistically feeds on the smaller fishes in the ocean. In a now-viral post shared on Instagram by wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory, the feeding behaviour of Balaenoptera Edeni, or Eden’s whale is demonstrated as it skims the ocean surface with its mouths open to capture the tiny fishes in the filter-like baleen structure. The clip was shot as a part of BBC’s Oceans episode of A Perfect Planet narrated by Sir David Attenborough, the channel’s nature documentary.  

In the footage, the mysticete whale gulps a huge volume of seawater and a large number of fishes in a rare astonishing sight as it stuns the internet with its ‘strange’ hunting method. “An Eden’s whale trap feeding…