This is not Jonah in the belly of the whale, or "great fish, " but a prelude to that biblical episode.

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But luckily for the larger whale, the nearby orcas were Northern Residents that eat fish, not other whales.

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Still farther out, supposedly, are whale sharks--at 40 feet long, the largest fish on earth.

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For he made his home in that fish's abdomen, oh, Jonah he lived in a whale.

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An average-sized humpback whale eats 2, 000-2, 500 kg of plankton, krill and small, schooling fish but don't worry, no kayakers per day.

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