Why do whales explode into giant feeding frenzies together?
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Why do whales explode into giant feeding frenzies together?
Imagine you're a humpback whale, cruising through the cold North Atlantic. You're forty feet long, you weigh thirty tons, and you are VERY hungry. A single whale needs to eat over a ton of tiny fish every day. But here's the problem: those fish are fast, they scatter in all directions, and you can't exactly sneak up on them when you're the size of a school bus.
So you do something clever. You call your friends. Humpback whales can sing to each other across miles of ocean, and when one whale finds a huge school of fish, it doesn't keep the secret. Other whales hear the call and swim over. Sometimes three whales show up. Sometimes fifteen.
