Watch the largest feeding frenzy of fin whales ever recorded
Scientists and filmmakers recorded the massive fin whale aggregation as part of a new series streaming on Disney+.
Weighing 80 tons, fin whales are the second-largest animal on the planet. Just a few decades ago, these massive mammals had nearly been driven to extinction, with 700,000 killed for their blubber during the 20th century alone. Scenes of masses of fin whales gathering off the coast of Antarctica to feed together were thought to be relics of the past.
Now, however, scientists and filmmakers report an encouraging finding: video proof of a feeding frenzy of some 300 fin whales off the coast of Antarctica.
“It looked like cannons in an old sea battle,” says wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory, a National Geographic Explorer, of seeing the spouts of water from the whales’ blowholes on the horizon. “It was like, OK,
