Sentences with phrase «for killer whales»

Ideally located near the south end of Discovery Passage, the area is critically important habitat for Killer Whales, Humpback Whales, and so much more.

«They learn early because it's pretty dangerous for the killer whales to hunt a gray whale because the mother gray whale can slam them with their fluke,» Black said.

While orcas will pass by most beaches in Johnstone Strait at some point or another, this beach has been a central point for orca encounters for decades because a steep pebble dropoff creates an ideal belly - rubbing site for killer whales.

No, the rubbing beaches in the Robson Bight (Michael Bigg) Ecological Reserve are part of an area that is set aside specially for the killer whales to enjoy.

Elephant seals are prey for killer whales and white sharks.

At sea or on pack ice, they become prey for killer whales and leopard seals, which prey primarily on juveniles and pups.

The world - renowned Robson Bight Ecological Reserve, a favoured rubbing beach for killer whales, is just 30 minutes away by boat.

«I think the move is a good decision for killer whales, who can travel up to 160 km in a day,» he says.

But it's a different story for killer whales in captivity.

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.

One way to avoid being eaten was to emit echolocation sounds that were difficult for killer whales to detect — thus an ability favored by evolution, «concludes Lee Miller and Magnus Wahlberg in their research article.

Merlin Entertainments is mulling a bid to buy the theme parks of the operator famous for its killer whales.

(Natural News) On the lookout for killer whales in the famous Bremer Canyon area of Western Australia, marine wildlife researcher Rebecca Wellard stumbled across an appalling sight: A trio of plastic drums used for hydrochloric acid storage, bobbing in the bio-diverse waters of the marine reserve, reported The West Australian.

Our guides are in tune with the locations of our local orcas and can really improve your success for killer whale watching.

Click the map on the right to see an enlarged view of the US government data for killer whale sightings in July.

Not exact matches

I've been eating like a killer whale for the past few weeks, so it's time to get more veggies at home.

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Despite the long gap since then, mean concentration of the chemicals in the blubber of some populations of Europe's killer whales exceeds — often by a lot — a high threshold for health damage.

Usually, narwhals will escape natural predators such as killer whales by stealthily slipping under ice sheets or huddling in spots too shallow for their pursuers, Williams says.

Killer whales, for example, fall into two distinct groups, residents and transients.

Killer whale hearing is best at around 20 kHz, so it is hard for them to detect a porpoise,» explains Lee Miller.

Perhaps scientists» best hope for finding clues to menopause's origins comes from a surprising source: killer whales.

«Harbor porpoises can thank their worst enemy, the killer whale, for their success.»

Victoria Gill and Andrew Luck - Baker of BBC Radio 4 won the Gold Award in the audio category for a story on menopause among killer whales and the role of sprightly matriarchs who can be seen breaching the coastal waterways between British Columbia and Washington state.

Past studies of individuals near Hawaii and Costa Rica have found that false killer whales are social animals that can maintain friendships — swimming, hunting and cavorting — for years.

There, he heard the call of the killer whale for the first time.

Named for their resemblance to their better - known cousins, false killer whales dwell in warm tropical and temperate seas across the globe.

Finally, the team calculated that the dozen observed killer whale attacks on otters, extrapolated to the general population, could account entirely for the observed declines.

Evidence for vocal learning in juvenile male killer whales, (Orcinus orca), from an adventitious cross-socializing experiment.

A clue to this puzzling decline appeared in 1991, when researchers witnessed for the first time a killer whale eating an otter.

«When that happened, some killer whales, which had been preying on big whales, had to do other things to make a living,» says James Estes, a research scientist in Santa Cruz, California, for the U.S. Geological Survey and coauthor of the PNAS article.

In the case of the slaughtered harbor seals of Hood Canal, transient killer whales may have done a good deed for the environment.

«I haven't been impressed by their knowledge and understanding of killer whale biology,» said Craig Matkin, a marine mammal biologist from Homer, Alaska, who has been studying orcas for 20 years.

«It gives us a real jump start in knowing what to be looking for,» says Steve Ferguson, a research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada who led a survey of traditional knowledge on killer whales in Nunavut waters.

One killer whale was missing from the coast of British Columbia for 12 years, Ford said.

«It almost sounds like killer whales are being blamed for the decline of every marine mammal out there,» he says.

For the cascade theory of killer whale predation to stand up, there needs to be evidence that transient orcas, given the chance, would eat a whole lot of whale.

Matkin said he also worries that blaming killer whales for recent sharp declines in marine mammals will give politicians and bureaucrats an excuse not to protect coastal water quality and habitat.

No one has proposed that killer whales be executed for inappropriate dining habits.

«We know the predator was not a killer whale, for example, because the temperatures would be much higher since they are warm - blooded animals.»

We are reasonably certain that killer - whale predation dramatically reduced sea otter numbers in southwestern Alaska, and we know that it could easily account for the seal and sea lion declines.

All three killer whales that had been housed with dolphins for several years shifted the proportions of different call types in their repertoire to more closely match the distribution found in dolphins — they produced more clicks and whistles and fewer pulsed calls.

For the manatee, walrus, dolphin, and killer whale, the return to the sea involved many evolutionary trade - offs amongst hundreds of genes: a general loss of the number of sensory genes for smell and taste, new functions for genes forming skin and connective tissue, and genes involved in muscle structure and metaboliFor the manatee, walrus, dolphin, and killer whale, the return to the sea involved many evolutionary trade - offs amongst hundreds of genes: a general loss of the number of sensory genes for smell and taste, new functions for genes forming skin and connective tissue, and genes involved in muscle structure and metabolifor smell and taste, new functions for genes forming skin and connective tissue, and genes involved in muscle structure and metabolifor genes forming skin and connective tissue, and genes involved in muscle structure and metabolism.

«There's been an idea for a long time that killer whales learn their dialect, but it isn't enough to say they all have different dialects so therefore they learn.

«We had no idea what they were even feeding on in the Atlantic, but eventually it has became more and more clear that minke whales are the predominant prey source for certain killer whales in our area,» explained Stevens, who published a field guide to whales and dolphins in Atlantic Canada in 2013.

It is fundamental for evaluating the status of killer whale populations.

As the agency responsible for conserving and managing killer whales in U.S. waters, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) faces a major challenge — it must identify orca subpopulations, understand their needs, and develop effective and sometimes unique ways to manage them.

Ainley says that the decline of this large, slow - growing, bottom - dwelling fish has knocked the Antarctic ecosystem out of whack and resulted in killer whales dropping in numbers, whereas silverfish have increased in abundance to compete with penguins and whales for crystal krill.

But in contrast to the pointy molars of dolphins or killer whales, however, its equivalent nchompers are squarish like those of hippos, possibly for grinding plant matter, the group suggests.