Don’t judge a whale’s gut microbiome by diet alone
![baleen whale tail](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ht_whalemicrobeticker_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
Researchers sampled excrement from right whales (one pictured) feeding in the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick, Canada, to get a snapshot of the microbes that inhabit the guts of baleen whale species.
Annabel Beichman