Vanessa Pirotta, a wildlife scientist, tells CNN the whale likely was “lunge fishing” on krill or fish and accidentally swallowed the kayaker. She said humpback whales do not eat human-sized prey.

Timo Dersch had a close call with a humpback whale while freediving with orcas in the waters surrounding Norway ...

Humpback whales, despite their gargantuan size, eat very small prey like krill and plankton. To sustain their massive bodies, however, they must consume a lot of this food — up to 3,000 pounds ...

When krill numbers fell again, so did the whales’ songs. Unlike blue whales, humpback whales can also eat anchovies and sardines, and their choruses returned when there was a population ...

However, their diets are distinct. While blue whales only eat krill, humpback whales eat krill and small schooling fish such as anchovy. If the prey species are more abundant and more densely ...

Whales are always on the move, so they have to eat a lot to keep them ... All of them feed on krill, but sometimes include other sea creatures in their diets, such as copepod crustaceans and small ...

krill and small fish — out of the water. Examples of baleen whales include blue whales, fin whales and humpback whales. Toothed whales usually eat larger prey, which can include fish ...