Sea Lions are Friends, Not Food
by Deana Glenz
Title
Sea Lions are Friends, Not Food
Artist
Deana Glenz
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
A completely amazing event today. A sea lion was trapped in the mouth of a humpback whale as the whale lunged through a ball of anchovies. Humpbacks don't eat sea lions so the whale kept his mouth open to give the stunned sea lion an opportunity to jump out. You can see the beige baleen and the pink corpus cavernosum maxilarus in the roof the the humpback's mouth. This blood filled organ is sends blood to the whales brain and helps the whale regulate its temperature as well as sense when things are trapped in it's mouth that shouldn't be. A full grown humpback can expands its ventral pleats, throat pleats, to hold about 500 gallons of sea water and food. It then contracts those pleats uses it's tongue to force the water through the baleen, trapping any little fish.
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December 7th, 2015
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