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Blue whales everywhere off Los Angeles

September 1, 2010 by Carolyn Kraft Leave a Comment

If you have never seen a blue whale and you happen to live in the Los Angeles area, then it’s time to go whale watching! There are blue whales everywhere off the coast right now feeding on mass amounts of krill. On Sunday I went whale watching on the Spirit based in San Pedro and… [read more]

Filed Under: Whales Tagged With: baleen, dorsal fin, endangered, krill, lunge feeding, whale, whale watching

Check out the flukes on this whale!

August 11, 2010 by Carolyn Kraft Leave a Comment

I was just perusing my photos from the last whale watching adventure and noticed this one. Somehow is slipped past me on the first run through. This is a shot of a humpback whale’s flukes and yes flukes is plural. I always found this strange because the word tail isn’t plural so why would flukes… [read more]

Filed Under: Whales Tagged With: barnacle, flukes, lunge feeding, whale, whale watching

Great whale watching near Santa Barbara!

July 26, 2010 by Carolyn Kraft 2 Comments

Wow, whale watching off Santa Barbara’s coast is amazing right now. On Saturday, ACS/LA hosted their Summertime Blues Whale Watch Adventure aboard the Condor Express and we watched whales galore lunge feeding on mass amounts of krill in the Santa Barbara Channel. Every where we looked there was either a humpback whale or a blue… [read more]

Filed Under: Whales Tagged With: baleen, cetacean, krill, lunge feeding, shark, whale, whale watching

Cetacean communities and coexistence

April 7, 2010 by Carolyn Kraft Leave a Comment

How do whales, dolphins and porpoises all get along and share their ocean home? This question is another one scientists hope to answer through the study of cetacean ecology. Possibly they make pacts with each other and agree to go after different prey and stay in certain locations to prevent fighting over resources and bad… [read more]

Filed Under: Dolphins, Marine mammals, Porpoises, Whales Tagged With: baleen, cetacean, dolphin, krill, lunge feeding, porpoise, whale

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