When a whale eats krill how long do they stay alive inside the whale?
So here’s how most whale’s eat: They take in large gulps of ocean water that include krill or other tasty little morsels. Then they use their tongues to push all of the water out of the sides of their mouths. The food bits, like krill, get caught in the whale’s “baleen” plates (which are like teeth, except they’re a series of fine plates made out of keratin – the stuff our hair and fingernails are made of). The baleen plates block the krills’ exit. At this point the krill is still alive, as they have just been removed from water, and the process of pushing the water out is relatively fast. However, at this point the whale then uses his tongue to push all the food caught in the baleen plates to the back of his throat to swallow and digest it. This is where we say goodbye to our little krill friends. They will not survive the digestion process anymore then the ants you ate when you were a kid. So the krill survival time depends on how quickly Mr. Whale wants to hold all the water in his
