Assertion: blue whale's prey | /r/HasProperty | small
Facets:
value: relatively
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Despite being such a huge animal the blue whale can only consume small prey due to the fact that its esophagus is too small to consume larger sources of food and it is unable to chew its food and break it down into smaller pieces.
text: Blue whales eat tiny prey.
text: On occasion pygmy blue whales may end up consuming small benthic prey or fish when hunting for krill and use the same filter feeding techniques as other baleen whales to capture their prey.
text: Blue whales can only eat small prey because they have a very narrow oesophagus (throat).
text: Despite their huge size, blue whales feed on relatively small prey, primarily tiny shrimp-like animals called krill.
text: The whales seek out large concentrations of their tiny prey, which they engulf in a large amount of water, sometimes spinning about as they do it.