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The Eating Season
It's chow time at last! The huge whales feast all summer long. Tiny, shrimp-like krill are a big part of their menu. An average krill is 0.4 to 0.8 inches (1 to 2 cm) long. It takes a LOT of krill to fill up a gray whale!

Krill are tiny, shrimp-like creatures.