Close shot of a humpback whale bubble net feed. You can see the lines on the gullet, still filled with water and fish. Inside the mouth of the whale, you can see the pink tongue as well as the baleen hair that the whales use to filter the water they take in. The food gets caught in that filtering hair, and allows the whale to spit out the water and keep the food. North pass, Southeast Alaska

Close shot of a humpback whale bubble net feed. You can see the lines on the gullet, still filled with water and fish. Inside the mouth of the whale, you can see the pink tongue as well as the baleen hair that the whales use to filter the water they take in. The food gets caught in that filtering hair, and allows the whale to spit out the water and keep the food. North pass, Southeast Alaska