In this arresting television captured by AkXpro , a magnanimous seedpod of whales can be seen forming a circle and then lunching out of the weewee in near - perfect synchronizing . It ’s a noteworthy hunting strategy known as bubble feeding .
AkXpro used a drone to capture this fantastic footage in Alaska ’s Prince William Sound .
Typically , humpback whales hurl into a shoal of quarry , butas report in Arkive , they also crowd their prey using a “ house of cards net ” to immobilize them in amount :
During this process , a turn of whales will circle underwater emitting a continuous stream of air which traps fish in the eye of the tintinnabulation , the whales then come up up through their ‘ net ’ gorging on the contents within . During the summer months , humpbacks must feed intensely as they do not feed again during either the migration or the time spent in tropic breeding grounds .
This video describes the process in more detail :
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