“You still have no mouth. Aren’t you getting hungry?
Maybe you’re not hungry yet, but those fish down there look hungry. What do they eat?”
Experience the life of one krill, as it metamorphoses from a “six-armed oval” into a 26-legged glutton, and as it rises from the ocean’s deep midnight zone to the surface, encountering all sorts of hungry sea creatures as it grows. Antarctic krill can catch and eat one-celled phytoplankton, and they in turn are eaten by the largest animals ever to live on earth―blue whales―as well as by seals, penguins, and a host of others. In other words, krill are really good at eating, and they make really good eatin’. That makes them a keystone species of the Southern Ocean. Our star krill is so good at gobbling up phytoplankton that its guts turns green, so we can pick it out from the crowd as it tries to escape a penguin’s beak or a blue whale’s gaping maw. Good Eating has been reviewed and endorsed by global krill expert Dr. Stephen Nichol, and the manuscript earned an honorable mention in Minnesota’s McKnight Artist Fellowships for Writers.