Holiday Humpbacks, Orca and Dolphins
Inclement weather and the holdiay season has slowed reported Sightings, but there are still whales, including Humpbacks in our inside waters. The Pacific White Sided Dolphins have been showing up and seem to be on the move in and out of the areas while they appear to avoid some stealthy Orca, who we did not receive photos or IDs on. The whales, dolphins and porpoise are out there, so keep your eyes open, it’s a big ocean out there.
We thank you for your continued reporting as each and every sightings report is valuable! And with our new WOWs Archive Explorer map you can easily see where these whales travel.
Susan MacKay, Wild Ocean Whale Society
With all the snow forecasts – have you made a ‘Snow Whale’?
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ISSUE SIGHTINGS MAP 2016-040
Jump to: Biggs Orca | Orca | Humpback Whales | PWS Dolphins
TRANSIENT BIGGS KILLER WHALES
Mon Dec 19 2016
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UNIDENTIFIED KILLER WHALES
Tue Dec 13 2016
Thu Dec 08 2016
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HUMPBACK WHALES
Mon Dec 19 2016
Fri Dec 16 2016
Thu Dec 15 2016
Wed Dec 14 2016
Tue Dec 13 2016
Sun Dec 11 2016
Fri Dec 09 2016
Thu Dec 08 2016
SIGHTING MEDIA
SIGHTING MEDIA
Tue Dec 06 2016
Mon Nov 21 2016
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PACIFIC WHITE SIDED DOLPHINS
Sat Dec 17 2016
Tue Dec 13 2016
SIGHTING MEDIA
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Sun Dec 11 2016
SIGHTING MEDIA
SIGHTING MEDIA
The weather, co-ordinating equipment and volunteers, and now the holiday season has caused a variety of delays in the installation of our first live system. Although it’s not up and running yet, it is still going ahead and being worked on, albeit a bit slower than anticipated. Thanks to some great volunteers, the specialized camera mast has been fitted, but not secured yet, our electrical components have had a few modifications that were not anticipated, and the work continues. The hydrophone, underwater listening device, will be installed as soon after the camera as possible with co-ordination of the divers. We can hardly wait and will keep you posted.
AGM:
Our Annual General Meeting is being scheduled for mid-January and we will send out the email invitations to our Society Members shortly.
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The Magazine
REGIONAL & WEST COAST
Fascinating Interviews with those involved and a look back at a sad period which ultimately lead to a new respect and appreciation for the complex, much studied and still little understood world of the Orca of the Salish Sea.
Now, researchers following up on the Blob have confirmed the proposed connection between it and another abnormal event: a massive 2015 algae bloom that hit the eastern Pacific with the largest outbreak of toxic domoic acid-producing algae ever recorded …
INTERNATIONAL
…they’re mammals, so they have to face all of the challenges that a normal mammal does. They’re adapted to living on land: they’re [warm-blooded], they have fur, they breathe air, they give birth to live young and they have to suckle those live young. And then you try and do all of that in the sea, and of course, almost everything is stacked against you. Like, the milk is floating away, heat is draining from your body, your fur isn’t really that useful, there’s no air to breathe-like, everything is against you. And yet, within a relatively short period of time they’ve managed to tackle all of that, and they managed to achieve feats like diving down several kilometers and staying down for… an hour at a time, and doing some of the weirdest, biggest feeding events in all of the animal kingdom.
Scientists have seen orcas hunt an assortment of prey, including fish, seals, dolphins, and even the calves of large whales. But beaked whales? That’s a completely new hunting behavior, one that appears to be unique to orcas living near Bremer Bay in southwest Australia.
For the past two years, a research team led by …
Collecting the whale snot is no easy task. "The snot comes out in a big V," Kerr says. "At the bottom of the V, the snot is condensed, but it’s a very small window. At the top, it’s very wide but the snot is dispersed." The goal, he says, is to fly about three meters above a whale, allowing the snot to be collected in a simple petri dish affixed to the drone.
SnotBot launched in July 2015 with a Kickstarter campaign, and Kerr has kept the project’s crowdsourcing spirit strong. He asked the visiting students if they could come up with a solution to help fly SnotBot at a predictable altitude….
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