Sentences with phrase «from orcas»

LA had an impressive presence, and there were some fascinating, regionally specific booths like Kagedo Japanese Art Gallery from Orcas Islands, focusing on Iriyama Hakuo's dry - lacquer paintings.

As Steve Backshall gets ready to fly out for the BBC's Wild Alaska Live, he tells us about the best wildlife experiences in Alaska, from orcas to wolves, and how you can get a bit of wilderness all to yourself...

From orcas to humpback and grey whales, an incredible range of marine life, including seals, sea lions and porpoises, make their home in Vancouver's waters.

As Steve Backshall gets ready to fly out for the BBC's Wild Alaska Live, he tells us about the best wildlife experiences in Alaska, from orcas to wolves, and how you can get a bit of wilderness all to yourself... More

That morning the sky was gray, leaves on the Big Leaf Maples seem to have skipped their lovely yellow autumn color and have gone straight to brown and we were returning from Orcas Island to the city.

From the Orca Blog, five authors on the fun activities they share with their kids to promote learning.

Receiving help from Orca when it comes to development, Square Enix says DQXI will use Unreal Engine 4 and feature an open world.

When calling, please indicate you received their veterinary listing from ORCA.

Just got back from the Orca Camp trip and wanted to say... AWESOME... Guides Brenda and Carla were excellent - trip was unforgetable and will be planning a return trip next year to bring out some of my... Read More

More recently, a partnership with www.explore.org has seen the development of a network of remote video cameras that stream live high definition video from orca habitat to the Internet.

Like other whale - watching boats, we are required to position our kayaks 200 yards or more away from orca whales.

Is situated directly on the waterfront, overlooking the Red Sea and the Soma Bay house reef, and just a short walk from Orca Dive Centre.

Not exact matches

But Eric had fond memories of visiting Orcas Island, so when he was living in Delaware and got a call from a relative to come out for a construction job, he was enticed to go back.

Going forward, Orcas and Chestnut hope to see the program implemented in a broad range of environments from very small family - owned businesses to large multinational companies.

In Texas, it was not a sense of guilt over paying money to watch majestic orca whales prevented from swimming freely at sea because they're forced to perform tricks in comparatively small enclosures at the behest of misguided trainers who could very well be maimed when SeaWorld's whales are eventually driven insane by the hopelessness of their situation that kept audiences away earlier this year.

From Sweet Corn and Red Lentil Soup to Rhubarb Salsa, Orca Bean Chili Verde to Cherry (and Maybe Chocolate) Fro - Yo, the cookbook provides loads of ideas for Meat Free Monday and beyond!

The animals, which have names like Cream Puff, Orca and Nugget, will not only remove the plants immediately but keep them from growing in thicker — and without the use of chemicals, said their owner, Kim Hunter.

Naomi graciously accepted this interview request from her home on Orcas Island.

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.

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

«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.

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.

Thus far, the orcas» strategy seems to be working, at least from their point of view.

Although two of the orca populations eat only fish, there was no genetic evidence that they have diverged from those that dine on seals, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

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.

For instance, the scientists collected samples from a family pod of six orcas that aboriginal hunters in East Greenland had killed.

Captive orcas may also be more susceptible to these diseases, the scientists say, because they suffer from sunburn and broken, damaged teeth (as can be seen in the photo above of Keto), which weaken their immune systems.

No one has ever reported a wild orca dying from a mosquito - borne disease.

They also extracted DNA from the specimens, and from skin samples of living orcas to reconstruct the whales» genetic lineages.

Apart from humans and the occasional orca known to attack babies, whales don't really have predators, probably simply because of their size.

While the study was designed to look at stranding trends and did not evaluate the causes, necropsies on beached orcas have shown that they absorb extremely high loads of humanmade toxins, suffer from infectious diseases and, in the case of fish - eating populations, depend primarily on severely depleted salmon stocks.

Tangina Barron (Rubinstein), the paranormal investigator from Poltergeist, sends out a Native American shaman (Sampson, Orca) to help protect the family once she discovers the hidden cave buried in the ground where Kane and his followers died, knowing that the family will not be able to escape Kane's interest no matter where they might go.

You and a few friends control a squad of kittens, out to free orcas from a Sea World analogue, and sheep from the evil Sheep Puncher robot.

Blackfish is the doc, from director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, which opens the book on Seaworld and the mistreatment of the Orca whales they keep in captivity.

The work of famed Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis, his collaborations with Fellini long behind him and his American enterprises (from 1976's King Kong and Orca to Flash Gordon and Conan the Barbarian) yet to come, Barbarella is a curious film.

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From The Highly Engaged Classroom to School Engagement, Disengagement, Learning Supports, & School Climate (PDF) to «Strengthening Student Engagement,» the books and articles that have been written on the subject of increasing student engagement could fill a gluttonous orca.

Its long wheelbase should have been host to a really elegant set of lines, but the car has always had the unfortunate tendency to look like an orca (in black) or a beluga (in white) from certain angles.

Instead, the bulk of their e-books derive from Dundurn, Tyndale, Chicago Review, Rosetta and Orca.

People learn nothing about dolphins, orcas and sea lions from watching them perform ridiculous acts.

The method is best known from the world of marine mammal training where trainers need a way to communicate with large animals like dolphins and orcas who can not be controlled physically.

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When used in relation to British Columbia's Northern Resident orca community, the term «superpod» refers to a gathering of more than 50 orcas that includes families from all three of the community's «clans» — A, G, and R. Pretty much every year, superpods come together in the Johnstone Strait area, creating a truly impressive spectacle -LSB-...]

We will choose between a last paddle, or if the orca are in the area, we may spend some time whale watching from the ship as we make our way back to Port McNeill.

Yesterday, early in the afternoon, came the exciting news that «incoming» orcas were on their way, heading from Lizard Point towards Donegal Head on Malcolm Island.

Admire the views from your deck, where you can watch eagles soar through the rustling pines, or gaze out at the ocean and discover local wildlife like orcas, seals and otters.

«Then we start to see the blue whales from April through October, along with sightings of humpbacks, orcas, fin whales, and minke whales.»

From February to April you can join Naturaliste Charters off the coast at Bremer Bay to watch the gathering of the largest pod of orcas in the Southern Hemisphere.

The top places to see killer whales / orcas is around the Snæfellsness peninsula but they can certainly be seen from other locations.