Lunge Feeding Blue Whales: Rare Drone Footage of this Spectacular Behavior!
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- A drone shot so rare it might as well be a myth: a surface-lunge feeding Blue Whale! Prior to last summer I had never seen a Blue Whale surface lunge feeding on krill. In fact, prior to last year I had never even seen krill on the surface! While this isn’t the first time I’ve filmed this behavior, it IS the first time I can share it with you all here on social media!
With upwards of 100 Blue Whales currently residing in San Diego waters, Erica, Kyle, and I decided to spend the day zooming around the offshore waters of San Diego in hopes of filming something special. We never dreamed that we’d stumble upon a massive area of surface feeding whales nearly 20 miles from shore! Everywhere you looked there was a lunge feeding Fin or Blue Whale!
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Filmed by myself: Domenic Biagini and Kyle Christensen
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I don't know how many viewers realize how unbelievably RARE an Opportunity this is, to film a BLUE whale feeding. Excellent video quality too!
Makes me cry, this is so beautiful.
It doesnt happen! Drones have created amazing moments
It's only rare because we didn't have drones before. We'll probably see way more of this.
@@plica06 and because whaling decimated whale populations. Protections have helped but as very large animals living in a very spaced out habitat it has taken a long time for those protections to significantly help the populations.
They are so intelligent. Thank the Lord they are now protected. We share this planet and must protect all life.
I saw a blue whale from a plane once. We took off from LAX and curved out over the ocean. This was about ten years ago. There is no mistaking the silhouette of a blue whale from above. I was so shocked I couldn't even shout out for everyone to look. They are so beautiful. The sight lifted my heart and gave me hope for our troubled planet. I hope many more people will see them.
Great job yelling out the plane for others! I would have been screaming to tell the others! That’s a very busy shipping lane where you saw him or her and incredibly lucky-congrats!
Beautiful!
Maybee yu'd like the STAR TREK movie ... about whales & extraterrestrials
@@saturn722 What does all that have to do with blue whales? I was thinking of the ways we have damaged our environment and driven so many creatures to extinction. That is the troubled planet I was speaking of.
Yeah, you’re right. I removed my comment. Unfortunately the more people there are the more food and planet resources we need. Im pretty sure it’s not as bad as the media makes it sound. In fact just in the last 50+ years man has recognized the importance of conservation and have actually saved many species from extinction. Conservation laws have been in place for many different animals and have prevented their demise.
Life can be very resilient as long as man acts responsibly.
Just mesmerizing to see these massive animals in their element feeding. You don't realize how big they are. Thank you for letting us watch something that most of us will never see in our lifetime ❤
Simply incredible to see these huge animals coming up for food over and over again! I am so happy that it is possible to get so close to them with the drones. They provide an intimate peek into so many living creatures in the oceans! Thank you so much Domenici and crew and all involved in sharing this with us.
Thank you for the support and following along!
Drones actually being used for incredibly useful purposes!These videos are beautiful!❤
Amazing!
Mammals!
This undeniable beauty is humbling
💙💙
Truth.
Exactly.
That’s the feeling!!! 😌🥹🤗
Well put.
I’m breathless! Stunning photography.
Just so amazing how they line up their bodies in direction of the krill 😮 just so lovely to watch....and the music was so fitting 🐳 x
This brought tears to my eyes. How incredible!! Thank you for putting this together and sharing Dom!
Love you Anna!
Me too, almost can't stand how beautiful this is, if that makes sense.
I’m glad I’m not the only one. 😢They are truly magnificent.
@@DolphinDroneDom Ill go with you next time, if you want? I take pictures with a Nikon..not nearly as good as the drone but lovely as well!
Thank you. I am 74 and feel privileged to have seen such magnificent creatures before I die.
I just turned 75 and in the early seventies, in the Navy, while crossing the Atlantic we steamed parallel to two huge ‘fin whales’-could really tell if they were Blue Whales but they were really big.
It is certainly a privilege, you're very lucky. The immense power yet majesty these whales possess is truly something else
It’s one of the things on my bucket list too!❤
One of them appeared from Sea
near Maddalena Island (Sardegna)
not far from the coast...
It was a balena azzurra, beautyful 😊
Absolutely, astoundingly EPIC footage. Seeing and unseeing the orange pockets of krill WOW. Spectacular! 💙🤙🏼
As a kid many years ago, I never imagined I’d see footage like this. Thank you.
No words to describe how wondrous
and mind blowing this is!
Thanks for the truly beautiful footage.
One of the most amazing things I’ve ever laid my eyes on.
Speaking of which, I've wondered where the whale's eyes were... a tongue-twister, I realize... although I truly couldn't spot any eyes on them - as I wanted to see whether they looked happy and expressive - but alas, all mouth and no peepers. Are Lunging Blue Whales by any chance blind, or am I? If it is me who's missing something, may I please trouble you to add a time-stamp into a reply, in which the whale's eyes are visible. Thanks.
@@laurisafine7932
I was thinking the same thing, didn't see the eyes.
@@martychamplin7793 Ah, a kindred soul😊. I also thought it's ''groovy skin'' looked somewhat plastic and wondered whether it was [partly] AI generated, or enhanced🙄. Thx.
@@laurisafine7932 Wenn ich richtig gesehen habe, kann man das Auge 👁🗨 bei 0:53-0:56 , 1:45-1:47 , 2:17-2:20 sehen. Es befindet sich knapp oberhalb des Mundwinkels. Wie gesagt, wenn ich richtig gesehen hab. 😊
Yes
Wow,wow,wow,just plain WOW!. Ty so much for this! So unbelievably large and elegant.
That’s crazy how they turn on their side to get the absolute largest mouth opening possible. Killer footage!
Amazing footage. Blue whales are my favorite whales. They are so graceful & beautiful. Thank you for sharing. 🩷
Mine too.
Wow! I don’t think I’ve seen blue whales lunge feeding before, just humpbacks. Stunning footage! Thanks for sharing 💙💙💙
Glad you enjoyed! It’s super super rare to witness a Blue surface feeding!
that's because there are tens of thousands of humpbacks while only a few dozen or hundred Blue ones.
Indeed, so beautiful, so rare. Thank you for sharing this.
Awe inspiring even with the inability to comprehend the size of these creatures. Beautiful
I’m a long time scuba diver and have seen a lot of cool stuff underwater…but NOTHING compares to this big-boy…I dream of seeing a blue, please, please please whale gods
Music that compliments the magnificence of these ancient, giants of the sea! They are truly awe inspiring. ❤ Thank you!
They are so graceful for such large animals. The twists & arches as they lunge, sometimes upside down when they turn back into the sea. Stunning drone footage. Just breathtaking.
Eins von den schönsten Videos was man auf UA-cam findet. SPITZENKLASSE
Genau
What a truly remarkable video, capturing perhaps one of the rarest moments, of the world's largest animal feeding.! Blue Whales are the most magnificent creatures on Earth..Thank you for sharing this incredible footage..🐳☮️❤️
I felt a great disturbance in the Force... as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
lol
😆
Goofball❤
Cliche af using star wars tropes and the word suddenly consecutively
Bravo lol
So beautiful...at age 15, I wanted to study these magnificent beings. At age 65, I am just as amazed by how awesome they are...and that we humans have the pleasure to live side by side. Please let them live, let us humans never harm them (and all their ocean brethren); they can and will outlive homo sapiens! Thank you for this awsome footage.
When I was a child I read a book about Blue Whales. Read it 3 times. I thank God they’re not extinct, and I got to see this video.
Spectacular!!!😃 Amazing to watch!! & the music was great too!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!!
That might be the most Wholesome video i’ve seen so humbling and inspiring
This is lovely footage. Really breathtaking.
The title makes it seem like this behavior/manner of feeding is rare. I suspect catching it on film is rare. That said, I did click, and was not disappointed....
To me, one of the most beautiful videos of this Giants. Thank you, for sharing.
Wow. Just wow.
Thank you for sharing this.
🐋
Wonderful video and splendid creature. Congratulations!! Great job!!
Some of the best natural history shots I've ever seen, just incredible and congratulations!
There are no words to adequately express how incredibly beautiful and awe inspiring this brief glimpse is …
This is something beautiful and horrible for a person absolutely mystified and scared of the ocean at the same time. I LOVED this
Right!
That is an outstanding video. Simply breathtaking. Thank you for sharing.
This is spectacular
JUST THE ABSOLUTE COOLEST FOOTAGE!
Just amazing footage and mesmerizing such grace and beauty I am left with tingly sensations the way this video was put together thank you what a grand experience..
I would love to be able to see the krill they're eating. Beautiful and majestic💙
😂🤦♂️
😂
Watch the change in the sheen on the water...starts shimmering...,the Krill are trying to escape....0:10 sec...0:58 ,,,,
Stunning footage and suitable music, perfect to relax and enjoy, thanks 😊
Incredible footage ❤. Thanks for sharing!
Why are blue whales always looking so clean and pristine? Grey's and humpback's use to have all those parasites and crusts around their mouths and heads, but blue whales don't. Does anybody know the reasons for that?
I was about to ask the same question.
Part of it is the way they deal with predators.
Blue whales and most rorquals tend to flee without fighting back when confronted by predators such as orca so they have a leaner torpedo shape and don't have any body "armor" like callosities and barnacles.
Whereas right and humpback whales tend to fight back so they have a more chunky maneuverable shape and attachments like barnacles. Humpbacks have them on their fins to act like giant knuckledusters.
Great Question!
Better Hygiene
@@hrishikeshnair586I've learned with humpbacks in particular, barnacles have a Symbiotic relationship with the whales.
Watching this I was transfixed...mesmerized! I didn't realize how absolutely gorgeous & perfect blue whales are. If I didn't know any better I'd have thought this was like CGI or manipulated somehow because those whales are like...so perfect! The beautiful lines running down from the tip of their mouths & down their bodies, their graceful movements, omg. Also, I know they somehow filter out all that water they take in when feeding like that, but I just couldn't see where it went. This clip was like otherworldly.
I'm speechless. What an incredible video. I just subscribed. Thank you
So incredibly perfect. Beyond beautiful. I'm in tears as I'm just in awe of these majestic and peaceful beings and grateful that we get to share the planet with them.
Nobody can fathom how much the world’s biggest animal has to eat . So awesome
Genesis 1:21
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
This is as spectacular as hearing them sing is deeply moving. There is no sound on earth to compare. ❤
ABSOLUTELY STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL video!!🙏❤️
*😯😳😍🥰 OH MY! This is such a rare capture! I saw the clip on IG and ran here wondering if you have a channel! OOoooh Myyyy! Not even disturbing this glorious being whilst it feeds. My flabbers are ghasted!*
I so wish i had come up with my flabbers are ghasted ......I bow in awe both to that statement and this stunning video!
Just W O W! Thanks so much for sharing this incredible footage!
This is amazing on so many levels. Just to see a Blue Whale feeding is a once in a lifetime thrill. These marvelous videos are only possible with the perfection of drones and tiny cameras with great resolution, people willing to spend the time to find these monsters, and a whole lot of good fortune. Thank you.
It also shows that bait balls are no defence against a Blue Whale.
What an absolute beautiful creature, amazing video
One of the best videos EVER!!!
Amazing!
I'm left in tears. So emotional. Beautiful. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
It's impressive, grandiose. Why would one cry though? They are just eating. If the video showed them defecating, would you also cry?
@@anastassiosperakis2869 You’re so cute. Bless your heart. Jackass. 😘
So beautiful and awesome .. what stunning beautiful creatures they are !
Oh my…absolutely stunning!
Beautiful
Amazing! Think the biggest mammal on our planet eats something so small you can’t even see it in these videos.
It isn't often that I've got a huge smile and tears flowing at the same time. Stunning.
😂😂😂
Absolutely breathtaking!!! Thank you for sharing this.
Dear Dominic!!
You are Amazing!! Thank you for capturing so much beauty! This is simply incredible!!
Absolutely stunning. Thanks so much for sharing ❤
The Blue Whale (Sibbaldius musculus) is a large rorqual native everywhere in the ocean, it is known for being the largest animal alive today, it is the only extant species of the genus Sibbaldius, its closest living relative is the Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), both belong to the subfamily Megapterinae, which also includes the minke whales (genus Pterobalaena).
Based on the World Register of Marine Species (WORMS) blue whales are actually Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758). Sibbaldius is an out of date naming.
@tursiopsgirl8, nope, the Balaenoptera genus is polyphyletic, the only species of the genus is the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus), all rorquals belong to the family Balaenopteridae but not all rorquals belong to the genus Balaenoptera, only the fin whale does
Based on this classification, all other extant rorquals are now believed to be more closely related to the Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) than they are to the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus), for this reason, all these eight other extant rorqual species are relocated to four separate genera, Rudolphius for only the Sei Whale (Rudolphius borealis), Rorqualus for the Omura's Whale (Rorqualus omurai), Rice's Whale (Rorqualus ricei), Bryde's Whale (Rorqualus brydei), and Eden's Whale (Rorqualus edeni), Pterobalaena for the two species of minke whale being the Arctic Minke Whale (Pterobalaena acutorostrata) and the Antarctic Minke Whale (Pterobalaena bonaerensis), and Sibbaldius for only the Blue Whale (Sibbaldius musculus)
Not only there are now six extant genera of rorquals (family Balaenopteridae), there are also in fact three subfamilies of rorquals, Balaenopterinae for only the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus), Rudolphiinae for the Sei Whale (Rudolphius borealis), Omura's Whale (Rorqualus omurai), Rice's Whale (Rorqualus ricei), Bryde's Whale (Rorqualus brydei), and Eden's Whale (Rorqualus edeni), and Megapterinae for the Arctic Minke Whale (Pterobalaena acutorostrata), Antarctic Minke Whale (Pterobalaena bonaerensis), Blue Whale (Sibbaldius musculus), and Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), with the subfamilies Rudolphiinae and Megapterinae being sister taxa to the exclusion of Balaenopterinae, thus making the fin whale the most distantly related from all the other extant rorquals.
just plain incredible
💖WOW!! ☺
Truly amazing 1 in million video wow.
So graceful so beautiful
This guy is the blue whale GOAT
Absolutely amazing!!!!
Subbed on this footage alone
Beautiful photography. Incredible animal.
Thanks you very kindly for sharing this beautiful moment
Just beautiful ❤
Thank you! 😊
Subhan Allah ❤
Thank you so much for this special and moving experience ❤❤
Omg, Omg, thank you for this beyond beautiful footage. I am in AWE.
I have never seen anything more beautiful in my life, well maybe, when my son was born. This is spectacular footage. Thank you for sharing it.
Words really can't describe the beauty and elegance of these videos. The size of these amazing whales is incomprehensible! So awesome!!!
Unbelievably, undescribable, beyond words the magnificent power of God how he created them. A million thanks for sharing this ❤
Amazing pictures. Thanx for posting.
Stunning! 🌟🌟🌟
Thank you God for creating these mighty and beautiful creatures.
I'm in tears, this is just so magnificent, thank you x
Absolutely Amazing Thank you 👏👏👏
Wow, just wow. Thank you so much. I can’t imagine this the real that you must’ve had catching this. Nice of you to share with us.
Almost makes a person weep. You woud never get this footage with a helicopter. Just buitifull. We better start fixing our messes. Without animals, humans cant exist.
I'm not sure why but the breaching reminds of the sandworms of Arrakis
The odds of a being this complex arising from random mutations is about as likely as Lamborghini assembling itself.
Absolutely impossible, no matter how much time you give it.
Stunningly beautiful; Wow!❤️
Mavi Balina Dünyanın En Büyük Canlısı Gizemli bir Canlı❤
Such a beautiful video of a magnificent animal 🐋truly one of my all time favorites 😂 love the music 🎶 that was playing in it also. Thank you for sharing this beautiful piece of photography with us 🥰👍👏
Capturing these magnificent beasts like this is amazing. Job well done! Just think, God created this giant to feed and be sustained by eating the smallest of ocean creatures. They could swallow anything else in the ocean, but need only the krill.
Magnificent beyond my understanding.
I saw a Blue Whale this spring in Iceland. A thrill of a lifetime, I never thought I would ever actually see one.
Mesmerising Epic Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
Truly wonderful. We must work hard to protect the oceans.
Beautiful. Very impressive footage.
Awesome beautiful video thank you!!!!!!!