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Humpback Whale Research Participation - The Dolphin Institute, Hawaii
TDI researchers in the field under special Federal and State permits, studying humpback whales during the winter months in their Hawaiian breeding and calving grounds. As a participant, you ... vessels, help map sighted pods from our elevated shore station, and uncover life histories of individual whales by matching their photographs to our archival catalog. Click on the links to the ...
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Sable Island Whales & Dolphins
Since 1970, over 300 individual whales, dolphins and porpoises, comprising 19 species, have been found on the north and south sides of Sable Island. Most of these are "toothed whales" (Odontoceti) such as Sperm whales and dolphins; a much smaller number (4% of the total cetaceans recorded for ...
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Caring for Whales, Dolphins & the Oceans
The Oceania Project is: To undertake an Annual Whale Research Expedition to study the Humpback Whales in Hervey Bay. To observe, study, research and gather new information and insights about the ... and through her digital archive is able to present extended histories on many of these individual whales to Participants during the Expedition. The Expeditions are an increasingly rewarding process and each ...
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Migration of the Southern Humpback Whales
Over time the original song is changed to a completely new song. Individual whales sing their own version of the common theme. 'New variations in the song must be ... . Most changes do not occur between seasons. Instead, they occur during the time when the whales were singing, developing their songs methodically in measurable steps. Furthermore, the types of change varied from ...
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The Marine Mammal Center
Unique to humpbacks are wartlike round protuberances (bumps or tubricales) that occur on the head ... a Japanese fishing technique known as "oikami." At the same time, the attractive sounds of humpback whales preparing to feed were broadcast from a boat headed towards the open ocean. Since leaving ...
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General Information About Orca
K). By photographing the greyish "saddle patch" behind the dorsal fin, individual whales can be recognized. On the west coast of Canada, a catalogue of such photos ... whistles, and there is evidence that different groups are recognizable by their unique dialects. Killer whales feed on fish, squid, seabirds, and other marine mammals. They are known to hunt cooperatively, ...
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Blue Whales, Phillip Colla Natural History Photography
The tips of a blue whale's fluke are rather pointed, and the trailing ... Researchers around the world are gradually coming to understand the life of this greatest of whales through direct observation, remote sensing with satellite tags, and by eavesdropping on whale vocalizations with ...
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Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies | Right Whales | Field Notes
Cape Cod Bay. Relatively little is known about how often and when these ... monitoring techniques will be effective. This project will also undertake focal follows, which involve following individual whales for extended periods of time. Focal follows will help to provide further information on ...
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Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies | Right Whales | Acoustic Monitoring
This project will also undertake focal follows, which involve following individual whales for extended periods of time. Focal follows will help to provide further information on ... Its behavioral function seems to be the announcement of the caller’s presence to other whales in its vicinity. Variable tonal calls (i.e.screams, warbles, hybrid calls, pulsive calls) Right ...
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General Information About Pilot Whales
Pilot whales have strong social cohesiveness; it is rare to see a single individual. Even when being driven ashore by whalers, they would stay ... objects by echolocation. Vocalizations include a wide variety of whistles and clicks. Occasionally, groups of pilot whales slowly swim ashore and beach them- selves. Such mass standings are a natural phenomenon and ...
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