Sentences with phrase «about killer whales»

My strongest portfolio is about Killer whales (Orcas) followed by humpback whales and sperm whales, but here you also find pictures of Beluga whales, fin whales and other whales.

Here are some observations and news about killer whales in the San Juan Islands from this past winter and spring:

From the outset we began offering tours aimed at educating our guests about killer whales and have been deeply involved with research and conservation.

A truly unsettling, informative documentary directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite about killer whales in captivity; specifically a killer whale named Tilikum who has been responsible for the deaths of three individuals while in captivity.

Moll's interior voice reveals her thoughts — musings about killer whales that go mad in captivity, injuring themselves on purpose.

In the past three months, new studies have been published about killer whales, wandering albatross and trumpeter swans — all of which appear to be benefiting from climate change.

Most of what is known about killer whales has been learned from studies of the animals in Washington, Alaska and British Columbia.

«It's not about killer whales,» continued Liu, unable to resist a dig at nearby Sea World.

An orca called Wikie who learned to mimic human speech could teach us a lot about killer whale culture — but that's no reason to keep orcas in captivity

«A lot of what we know about killer whale health has come out of SeaWorld research.»

Not exact matches

Ross Sea killer whales from the Antarctic are about two - thirds the size of most orcas, eat only fish and have the smallest eye streak of all.

«Over millions of years the porpoise has evolved its ability to emit very high frequency click sounds that killer whales have difficulty hearing since they can not hear sounds that are much higher than about 100 kHz.

Fifty - five false killer whales were stranded on a South African beach over the weekend, but scientists still don't fully understand why mass strandings happen, and if we should be worried about them

Killer whales are about 26 feet long and eat 3 to 4 percent of their body weight a day.

Climate change and the resulting loss of sea ice during the summer have opened new hunting territory for the killer whales in the eastern Canadian Arctic, but scientists knew very little about these animals until they tapped into the traditional knowledge of Inuit hunters who shared unique firsthand descriptions of orca hunting tactics.

Estes says that some of the opposition to his theory about marine mammal predation derives less from the behavior of killer whales than from the behavior — and beliefs — of human beings.

KEIKO, the killer whale who starred in the Free Willy films, is about to go home — but probably not to freedom.

«It would be great to have satellite tags on a few individuals to learn about finer scale movement patterns and to see with greater resolution who they interact with, where they spend their time, what they do in winter, and whether there are any fish - eating killer whales.»

According to Tara Stevens, who will earn her doctorate at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography later this year, about 200 killer whales are believed to live in the area, most of which are seen in the summer months around Newfoundland.

Stevens is creating a catalog of photographs of killer whales in the northwest Atlantic in an effort to identify individual whales so she can track their movements and learn about their social interactions.

The killer whale, whose real name was Keiko, died in December 2003, at about 26 years old.

The new work came about when Darren Croft, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, and his colleagues looked back on their 2015 killer whale menopause study.

Killer whales, for instance, are known to swim away from areas where they have encountered sonar signals of about 142 decibels, a sound level lower than currently allowed by the U.S. Navy for its ships, Tyack said, referring to a 2014 study in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America that determined the mammals» likely response.

Males generally live about 30 years, whereas female killer whales stop reproducing in their 30s and 40s and live for many more decades.

Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes review a documentary about the death of three trainers after accidents involving Tilukum, a performing killer - whale.

Whishaw, who got his breakthrough in the adaptation of the serial killer novel Perfume, is playing Herman Melville in the Ron Howard - directed The Heart Of The Sea, the Warner Bros film that stars Chris Hemsworth about the actual whale attack that spawned Melville's Moby Dick.

Morton weaves together her own exciting fieldwork with scientific discoveries about the huge black - and - white dolphins known as killer whales.

Think about it... If you can train a large predator, such as a killer whale or a tiger, by focusing on capturing and rewarding desired behaviors, there is no reason you can't do the same with your dog.

These folks will go on and on about how they don't need a leash to train a dolphin or killer whale, and expound on the marvels of their training techniques.

The pod of killer whales dove, and while we were waiting for them to surface again we spotted another group of killer whales about a mile further to the north.

We are recruiting helpers for two periods; - late August to mid December: focus is elephant seal breeding, killer whale predation on weaned elephant seal pups, establishment of pairs and territories by skuas - mid December to late March: focus is elephant seal moulting, genaral killer whale activity and behavior, intensive study of skuas behaviour and communication, monitoring of breeding of marine birds and raptors, collection of general environmental data Only applicants who can stay for a whole period (about 3 months and a half) can be taken into consideration.

We don't see them every time, but about 2 / 3rds of our kayak trip guests enjoy killer whale sightings.

We navigate through the primary killer whale waters on about half of the five - day kayaking tour.

Read more details about our whale watching success in the San Juan Islands where we specialize in finding orcas or killer whales.

While super quiet sea kayaks are now accused of being a threat to orca whales in the San Juan Islands by a misguided and misinformed National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the same agency remains silent about the US Navy plans to increase ocean warfare training and testing of new sonar devices in the killer whales» home waters.

Killer whales were tops on everybody's learn - about list.

Make sure to read our story about Whale Watching in BC, British Columbia as well as our portfolio on Killer Whales.

(Pseudorca crassidens) False killer whales are large members of the dolphin family reaching about 20ft long.

The giant killer whale from Free Willy has been replaced with a pole vaulter and the swimmer on the Jaws poster is more concerned about getting the gold than about a giant great white shark.

In a Feb. 25 post playing on the recent killer whale incident at Sea World (a post which can no longer be read thanks to a temporary restraining order granted against HAN by a Louisiana state judge), HAN wrote about the supposed fate of «veteran wildlife guide Dizzy Dimarco» who was said to have been thrown into the upper limbs of a tree while feeding giraffes at Global Wildlife.

San Juan Island, WA USA About Blog The Center for Whale Research is a non profit organization that dedicated to the long term study and conservation of killer whales in Western Washington State and British Columbia.