Feeding Time
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‘Feeding Time’ by Ningeokuluk Teevee — Inuit Art from Cape Dorset 2009 original hand drawing collection presented by DaVic Gallery of Native Canadian Arts.
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Notes from DaVic Gallery: Bowhead whales are seasonal feeders and carnivores that filter feed plankton and tiny crustaceans like krill, copepods, pteropods, etc., from the water. Bowheads are skimmers, filter feeders that swim slowly with their mouth open, constantly eating. On occasion, they are also bottom feeders, eating benthic prey from the mud on the ocean floor. The fine baleen hairs can filter out very tiny prey including copepods, steropods, euphasids and mysids (tiny crustaceans).
The bowhead whale has about 350 pairs of black baleen plates with silver-colored bristles hanging from the jaws.