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Humpback whale breach sequence. A breach or a lunge is a leap out of the water, also known as cresting. The distinction between the two is fairly arbitrary: cetacean researcher Hal Whitehead defines a breach as any leap in which at least 40% of the animal's body clears the water, and a lunge as a leap with less than 40% clearance. [2]
This includes the sperm whale, oceanic dolphins, usually pilot and Orcas, and a few beaked whale species. The most common species to strand in the United Kingdom is the harbour porpoise ; the common dolphin ( Delphinus delphis ) is second-most common, and after that long-finned pilot whales ( Globicephala melas ).
The sperm whale or cachalot [a] (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.It is the only living member of the genus Physeter and one of three extant species in the sperm whale family, along with the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale of the genus Kogia.
The endangered sperm whale was discovered around 8:30 a.m. Sunday, March 10, off Venice and attempts to offer aid had been hampered by dangerous conditions, according to the Venice Police Department.
Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other, in an effort ...
All the information is in a database so we can see where they've been, who they've been hanging out with, kind of what the social structure of what the groups are."Steiner says the end goal is to ...
Pygmy sperm whales have never been hunted on a wide scale. Land-based whalers have hunted them from Indonesia, Japan, and the Lesser Antilles. This species was impacted by whaling in the 18th and 19th centuries, as sperm whales were especially sought after by whalers for their sperm oil, produced by the spermaceti organ. The oil was used to ...
Inflation, high interest rates and even dead whales are lining up to delay the fledgling US offshore wind industry from taking off.