More Humpback Whales Showing Up as well as Plenty of Bigg’s

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There is cetacean activity being reported all along the West Coast. This weeks magazine tracks our Pacific cetaceans to California, Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii. We also feature a selection of cetacean reports from Ireland, the UK and Australia.

REGIONAL & WEST COAST

This up close video, well right beside the dock, shows an up close look at a Humpback bubble netting a school of fish, and then lunging up out of the water to grab the meal. Check out the full article to watch a pair of Humpbacks bubble netting within the marina.

The number of whales that made the annual migration to Hawaiian waters this past winter appears to be at its lowest level in five years, according to officials with the Hawaiian Island Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary….

Three subgroups of Killer Whales were hunting over the Monterey Submarine Canyon today. We were lucky enough to watch one group toss an Elephant Seal around a few times to stun it and teach the juveniles in the group some hunting techniques and maneuvers….

MOSS LANDING , CA – As orcas, gray and humpback whales feast and pass through Monterey Bay, a rescue crew spent two days this week disentangling a humpback wrapped in crab fishing gear.
It was a close call that ended safely because of cooperation between a Moss Landing fisherman and authorities. The whale was freed Thursday afternoon.

A gray whale that was reported dead last week off of Vashon WA in Puget Sound, likely died of starvation, whale experts say, though it is not yet clear if there were additional causes that contributed to the animal’s condition.

Researchers retrieved the whale …

A U.S. non-profit wants to build a sanctuary for rescued and retired aquarium whales to live out the rest of their days, and they’re eyeing the B.C. coast as a possible location.

CLICK the above image to hear the interview with Whale Sanctuary Project president Dr. Lori Marino

NEWPORT, OREGON – Although sperm whales have not been driven to the brink of extinction as have some other whales, a new study has found a remarkable lack of diversity in the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA within the species. In fact, the mitochondrial DNA from more than a thousand sperm whales examined during the past 15 years came from a single "Eve" sperm whale tens of thousands of years ago, the researchers ….

INTERNATIONAL

Astounding underwater photography captures the courtship dance of a pair of Humpback whales….

Strumble Head, north Pembrokeshire, Whales is proving itself as one of the best places in Britain to see cetaceans from the land, after three different species were spotted in just sixty minutes.

Early last Sunday morning Sea Trust volunteer, photographer Ken Barnett, had an epic early morning shift at Strumble Head, recording and photographing harbour porpoise, Risso’s dolphins and bottlenose dolphins in the space of an hour.

Video taken from a drone off Sydney, Austraia show False Killer whales hunting down a shark. Click the image to view.

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