Sentences with phrase «finding orca whales»

Despite the killer whales» pattern of more widely ranging hunts in late summer, our one day kayaking tours operate exclusively along the west side of San Juan Island as this remains the primary feeding area and offers us the best statistical chance of finding orca whales in any month.

However, our kayaking routes are optimized for finding orca whales, so sightings of baleen whales are very unpredictable.

Not exact matches

Estes estimates that before industrial whaling, the amount of food that orcas could find by eating whales was about 60 times greater than what was available from the combined numbers of seals, sea lions, and sea otters.

But killer whales are also found in the North Atlantic, and a graduate student at the University of Rhode Island is the first to investigate the ecology of the orcas that live around Newfoundland and Labrador.

To find out if differences in diet and culture have also led to two species of killer whales in the Northeast Atlantic, Foote and his colleagues studied the dietary choices and genetic relationships of orcas from Greenland to Norway.

The findings suggest that a captive whale's ability to deftly mimic unfamiliar noises hints that imitation likely plays an important role in building orcas» unique «vocal traditions.»

New research has found that orcas or killer whales breath out good bacteria, pathogenic ones such as salmonella, and fungi when they exhale.

Fish are not the only wildlife found here as otters and even the occasional orca or grey whale can be spotted swimming by.

Not only will you find the Orcas (Killer Whales), you'll have the opportunity to see a diverse marine ecosystem, including bow riding Dall's porpoises, sea lions, bald eagles, and seals.

Having considered the scientific facts, studied the orca whales firsthand for several decades on our sea kayak tours in the San Juan Islands, and using our accumulated knowledge as scientists, educators, and naturalists, we find the evidence to be overwhelming that orca whales are unsuited for captivity and maintaining them in aquariums is unethical.

NMFS has rightly concluded that orca whales in the San Juan Islands are not always capable of finding enough salmon to survive.

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

He began collecting accounts of humpback whales interacting with orcas, and found nothing short of 115 documented interactions, reported by 54 different observers between 1951 and 2012.

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.

Humpback whales, 260 Resident and even more Transient Orcas all migrate the channel, feeding on the abundant marine life found between its rocky shores.

The California Gray Whale Coalition can find no evidence to suggest that the US Government takes into account the very high mortality rates caused by Orca predation.

Humpback and Gray Whales are some of the most common species found but other species such as the Blue Whale, the Sperm Whale, the Bryde's Whale, the Sei Whale, the Fin Whale, and the Orca may also be spotted.

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