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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]
The killer whales regularly demonstrate their competence by chasing seals up shelving gravel beaches, up to the edge of the water. The pursuing whales are occasionally partially thrust out of the sea by a combination of their own impetus and retreating water, and have to wait for the next wave to re-float them and carry them back to sea. [12]
Pilot whales' long, sickle-shaped flippers and tail stocks are flattened from side to side. [4] Male long-finned pilot whales develop more circular melons than females, [4] although this does not seem to be the case for short-finned pilot whales off the Pacific coast of Japan. [12] A pilot whale spyhopping
But rather than a Russian spy, Dr Olga Shpak believes the whale was actually trained to guard the naval base before opting to flee once released into open water due to its “hooligan” mindset.
A harness-wearing beluga whale that may have been trained by the Russian navy has reappeared off Sweden's coast.. The "spy" whale was first reported in April 2019, when he was discovered near ...
Just this month some 200 pilot whales stranded themselves on. There's a tiny tip of sand at the very northern tip of New Zealand's southern island called Farewell Spit. It is lovely and remote.
The melon is structurally part of the nasal apparatus and comprises most of the mass tissue between the blowhole and the tip of the snout. The function of the melon is not completely understood, but scientists believe it is a bioacoustic component, providing a means of focusing sounds used in echolocation and creating a similarity between characteristics of its tissue and the surrounding water ...
The tame beluga whale approached Norwegian fishermen in 2019, wearing a harness, leading to speculation that it was an escaped Russian "spy whale" [Norwegian Orca Survey]