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Diet
They use filter feeding with their hair-like baleen consume large amounts of zooplankton and copepods
Agility
Known for being slow swimmers and staying between speeds of 2.3 to 5.8 miles per hour
During feeding they have been seen breaching out of the water and crashing back down
Defense Mechanisms
Their large size protects them from most predators, they can thrash their tails to injure its attacker
Traveling in pods helps reduce the risk of being attacked
Superpower
They travel more than an 1,000 miles between calving grounds in the U.S. Southeast and feeding grounds in U.S. Northeast and Canada
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