Despite their impressive size, they are known for their agility, often breaching and lunging while feeding. The sei whale, a member of the baleen whale family, was once abundant in the waters off ...

Sei whales are the third-largest whale species ... or entangled whales,” Gomez said. Touching, feeding or otherwise harming whales, dolphins and porpoises is illegal under the Marine Mammal ...

“In addition to being a globally-important feeding ground for the species, we now also have evidence that Falklands’ waters are one of few areas documented worldwide for sei whale breeding ...

The project that contributed to the KBA designation has confirmed that many sei whales use Falklands waters as summer feeding grounds, returning every year to feed on swarms of tiny crustaceans.

Phytoplankton feed zooplankton, tiny animals that live in surface ... gray, humpback, bowhead, sei, Bryde’s, minke, and right whales) sequester nearly 29,000 tonnes of carbon per year via whale falls.

Drone footage showed the whales feeding on salmon, with one whale being captured with a fish hanging out of its mouth. The birds in the area were happy, too, as they were able to grab the scraps ...