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For killer whales, researchers arbitrarily chose the left side of the animal as the one to be used for identification. Bigg's team of killer whale photographers and spotters quickly grew to include hundreds of volunteers from along the coast, a project that was eventually formalized in 1999 as the B.C. Cetacean Sightings Network.
Dougal Robertson, Scottish author and sailor who, with his family, survived being adrift at sea after their schooner was holed by killer whales in 1972. Maurice and Maralyn Bailey, survived 117 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean. Rose Noelle, a trimaran on which four people survived 119 days adrift in the South Pacific.
The novel title comes from the French word cachalot, meaning sperm whale. This word was applied to the sperm whale when the mammals were actively hunted in Earth's oceans. The novel features a new musical instrument called "neurophon" producing not only tunes but also nerve sensations on human skin and irritating alien creatures found on the ...
Whalefall received generally positive reviews and was included in a list of the "Best Thrillers of 2023" by the New York Times. [2] Sarah Lyall of the New York Times described the book as a "crazily enjoyable, beat-the-clock adventure story about fathers, sons, guilt and the mysteries of the sea," and compared the book to the survival film 127 Hours. [3]
It was broadcast in 2010 on the BBC with the title A Killer Whale Called Luna, [18] and in 2011, with Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson as executive producers, turned into the theatrical film The Whale. [19] Chisholm's and Parfit's notes were also turned into a book in 2013, The Lost Whale: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna. [20]
Capt. Charles M Scammon, Scientist Overland Monthly Scammon's 1874 illustration of a gray whale. Charles Melville Scammon (1825–1911) was a 19th-century whaleman , naturalist , and author. He was the first to hunt the gray whales of both Laguna Ojo de Liebre and San Ignacio Lagoon , the former also known as "Scammon's Lagoon" after him.
Borrowing an analogy from publishing and bookbinding, he divides whales into three "books", called the Folio Whale (largest), Octavo Whale and the Duodecimo Whale (smaller), represented respectively by the sperm whale, the orca (which he calls the grampus) and the porpoise. Each such book is then divided into "chapters" representing a separate ...
Dawn the humpback whale in the Sacramento River in 2007 Cetaceans are the animals commonly known as whales , dolphins , and porpoises . This list includes individuals from real life or fiction, where fictional individuals are indicated by their source.