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Common minke whale breaching off the Azores. Common minke whales are normally seen singly. In the San Juan Islands, although up to six whales could be seen in a feeding area at once they usually acted independently, with no indications of cooperative feeding like that observed in their larger relatives the humpback and fin whale. On occasion ...
Sashimi of whale meat The fluke (oba) which are thinly sliced and rinsed (sarashi kujira). Topped with vinegar-miso sauce Whale bacon Whale bacon on pizza Icelandic fin whale meat on sale in Japan in 2010 A beluga whale is flensed in Buckland, Alaska in 2007, valued for its muktuk which is an important source of vitamin C in the diet of some ...
The primary diet of transient orcas includes harbor seals, Steller sea lions, harbor porpoises, Dall's porpoises, Pacific white-sided dolphins, and Minke whales. Among these, the harbor seal is the most common prey; one survey estimated that more than half of the diet of transients in the Salish Sea region consists of harbor seals. [16]
The two species of minke whale are the common (or northern) minke whale and the Antarctic (or southern) minke whale. [2] The minke whale was first described by the Danish naturalist Otto Fabricius in 1780, who assumed it must be an already known species and assigned his specimen to Balaena rostrata , a name given to the northern bottlenose ...
E. crystallorophias feeds on bacteria, diatoms, detritus, and other microorganisms, including the algae that form on the underside of sea ice, and is in turn an important food source for fish, whales, and penguins, [2] especially minke whales, Weddell seals, Adelie penguins, and the Antarctic silverfish. [1]
Rorquals (/ ˈ r ɔːr k w əl z /) are the largest group of baleen whales, comprising the family Balaenopteridae, which contains nine extant species in two genera.They include the largest known animal that has ever lived, the blue whale, which can reach 180 tonnes (200 short tons), and the fin whale, which reaches 120 tonnes (130 short tons); even the smallest of the group, the northern minke ...
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Other baleen whales sometimes seen are the common minke whale, which may be seen throughout the region, especially in summer around the San Juan Islands. [9] Its larger relative, the fin whale, can also be seen in the area, mostly in the outer waters off the continental shelf, but occasionally makes forays into the Salish Sea area. [10]