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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]
OneWhale, one of the organisations involved in Hvaldimir's care and observations, stated that other captive and human-conditioned beluga whales from around the world could be rescued and potentially joined with Hvaldimir, with the whales possibly being released further north to the waters off Svalbard, where a group of wild belugas is known to ...
Hunting of these whales has been banned for many years, due to critically low populations of them in Arctic North American waters. They are still, however, caught for export to aquariums and zoos.
Two boaters were flung into the Atlantic Ocean when the whale struck the rear of the vessel. They were rescued by good Samaritans, according to the Coast Guard.
A group of orcas in the Southern Resident population spy-hop off the Pacific Northwest coast. ... Female killer whales can live up to 90 years — long enough to experience menopause, which is ...
[27] [28] Pilot whales mainly feed on cephalopods, though in certain regions fish may be more prominent in their diet. [29] [30] Northwestern Atlantic whales are thought to dine predominately on short-finned squid. [31] Long-finned pilot whales can often be seen lobtailing and spyhopping. Occasionally they may also breach. This species is ...
An important finding is that whales, in a process called the Lombard effect, adjust their song to compensate for background noise pollution. [48] Blue whales stop producing foraging D calls once a mid-frequency sonar is activated, even though the sonar frequency range (1–8 kHz) far exceeds their sound production range (25–100 Hz). [2]