Since I recently posted a list of baleen whales, I decided it was time to post a list of toothed whales. Toothed whales make up the scientific suborder Ondontoceti, which includes an impressive list of species. Similar to the baleen whales, every list out there is slightly different. The list compiled below is based on… [read more]
Sperm whale gets the fish
This is one of my favorite whale videos. I first had the chance to see this video during movie night at the Society for Marine Mammalogy Conference in Quebec City. Someone recently posted it to YouTube, so I can finally share it. (Thanks to Cheryl McCormick, Executive Director of the American Cetacean Society for posting… [read more]
Amazing photos of a gray whale floating on its back
A gray whale floating on its back, simply amazing! Henry Jurgens, a volunteer naturalist with the Cabrillo Whalewatch Program, took these photos on a whale watching trip last week. He was aboard the Spirit, a whale watching boat based in San Pedro, accompanied by a school group from Los Angeles’ inner city. (Even though downtown… [read more]
List of baleen whales
I received a website request for the names of five baleen whales, most likely for a school project. Then I realized, I’ve probably never listed all the baleen whales! Then I started flipping through all my whale books and wouldn’t you know it, every list is slightly different. So I decided to stick with the… [read more]
Now is the time for gray whale watching
People keep asking me, “Are there still enough gray whales migrating for whale watching?” The answer is a definitive yes! While we are getting closer to the end of the “normal” migration time frame, for some reason the gray whales are traveling north later this year. Why? You would have to ask the gray whales… [read more]
Bottlenose dolphin with cool white splashes of color
On a recent whale watching trip off the coast of Los Angeles, an unusual looking bottlenose dolphin surfaced. One of the naturalists on board got this great shot! This is actually a calf because in another photo there’s a much larger dolphin right next to him, most likely the mom. And the pair is traveling… [read more]
Gray whale in the news
In case you missed it, a gray whale has been consistently making the news in the last month. Why? Because this story isn’t about our fabulous Eastern Pacific gray whales, you know the ones we always hear about migrating past California’s coast. There’s usually about 20,000 of them swimming by every year. This story is… [read more]
TOPP is another cool website
TOPP is another great website I recently discovered that I wanted to share. TOPP actually stands for Tagging of Pacific Predators. On the home page you can see where tagged animals have traveled including a white shark, a tuna, a male elephant seal and a leatherback turtle to name a few. There is so much… [read more]
Gray whale and dolphin watching
Gray whale watching is in full-swing off Southern California’s coast. I went on my first whale watching trip as a naturalist for the 2011 season yesterday on the Voyager and we had a great time. The trip included a chance to spend some time with about 500 common dolphins. A few swam towards the boat… [read more]
One more reason to be grateful whaling is illegal
Recently, I decided it was time to change things up a bit and switch my google alerts. Before I had my alert set to notify me of all whale related stories. So everyday I received five to 10 emails about about whales, sometimes relevant and other times about sporting teams called “The Whales” or stories… [read more]
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