TEST: Feeding info<\/title> \n<\/head> \n<body><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"sim\">\n<h1>Gray Whale Feeding<\/h1>\n\n Gray whales are huge animals. They grow \n to about 49 feet long and weigh about \n 90,000 pounds. It takes a lot of food \n to grow to that size. It also takes a \n lot of food for a full-grown whale to \n stay healthy.\n <\/p>\n\n To feed, a gray whale dives to the bottom and turns on its side. There it \n bites chunks out of the mud or sand. The buried small shrimp-like animals \n are stirred up into the water. The whale sucks this water mixture into its mouth. \n Forcing the water through baleen \n plates strains out the animals.\n <\/p>\n\n Baleen is made from the same protein as \n your fingernails. The plates of baleen \n are connected to the gray whale’s \n mouth. A baleen plate has long bristles \n that filter food from the sea water.\n <\/p>\n\n Gray whales actually seem to eat a variety of foods. Besides bottom \n animals, they sometimes feed on plankton. Other times they even strain \n seaweeds through their mouths to rub off crabs and shrimp. Scientists \n think their flexable feeding behavoir is important for their survival. It may \n have helped them recover quickly from near extinction. Other whales \n which eat fewer kinds of food have been slower to increase in numbers\n <\/p>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/infofeed.PNG\" alt=\"whale feeding\"> \n <button onclick=\"history.back()\" class=\"reg btn blu\">Go Back to Eating…<\/button><\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body> \n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEST: Feeding info Gray Whale Feeding Gray whales are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"no-header-footer.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9427,"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9426\/revisions\/9427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

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\n \n \n \n \n TEST: Feeding info<\/title> \n<\/head> \n<body><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"sim\">\n<h1>Gray Whale Feeding<\/h1>\n\n Gray whales are huge animals. They grow \n to about 49 feet long and weigh about \n 90,000 pounds. It takes a lot of food \n to grow to that size. It also takes a \n lot of food for a full-grown whale to \n stay healthy.\n <\/p>\n\n To feed, a gray whale dives to the bottom and turns on its side. There it \n bites chunks out of the mud or sand. The buried small shrimp-like animals \n are stirred up into the water. The whale sucks this water mixture into its mouth. \n Forcing the water through baleen \n plates strains out the animals.\n <\/p>\n\n Baleen is made from the same protein as \n your fingernails. The plates of baleen \n are connected to the gray whale’s \n mouth. A baleen plate has long bristles \n that filter food from the sea water.\n <\/p>\n\n Gray whales actually seem to eat a variety of foods. Besides bottom \n animals, they sometimes feed on plankton. Other times they even strain \n seaweeds through their mouths to rub off crabs and shrimp. Scientists \n think their flexable feeding behavoir is important for their survival. It may \n have helped them recover quickly from near extinction. Other whales \n which eat fewer kinds of food have been slower to increase in numbers\n <\/p>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/infofeed.PNG\" alt=\"whale feeding\"> \n <button onclick=\"history.back()\" class=\"reg btn blu\">Go Back to Eating…<\/button><\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body> \n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEST: Feeding info Gray Whale Feeding Gray whales are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"no-header-footer.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9427,"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9426\/revisions\/9427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forsea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}