Wildlife of the Antarctic Peninsula

Humpback whales visit the Antarctic Peninsula in the summer, when schools of krill are abundant.  When bubblenet feeding, a group of whales will surround a school of herring or krill, trapping and concentrating the school with their bubbles.  They will then take turns lunging toward the surface of the water through the school of krill, using their baleen (or comblike plates) to filter out the krill.