Sentences with phrase «killer whale feeding»

Click here to look at our whale watching kayak trip maps with the killer whale feeding and traveling routes highlighted.

The primary killer whale feeding and traveling area is highlighted in green on the individual kayak trip route maps shown below.

While we haven't observed an attack, we've observed the killer whales feeding on 3 different gray whale calves on different days and in different locations.

Not exact matches

Both are greyer than the north - east Pacific transient killer whales living off Alaska, which feed on marine mammals, including dolphins.

Researchers now classify those killer whales into three groups: «resident» orcas that feed exclusively on fish, «transient» orcas that usually eat marine mammals, and «offshore» orcas that are so mysterious no one knows what they eat.

«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.

And they examined the wear - patterns on the animals» teeth; killer whales that feed heavily on herring have badly worn teeth.

In a new paper, experts outline several novel ideas for improving the lives of Killer whales in zoological institutions by enhancing the communication, feeding, environment, and health of the animals in order to elicit natural behaviours seen in the wild.

In turn, killer whales that feed on seals consume the equivalent of five tons of plankton for each pound of their body weight.12 This phenomenon would explain why Weston Price found seal oil, which he estimated to constitute 200 calories per day of the Inuit diet, to be several times higher in the fat - soluble vitamins than ordinary cod liver oil.30

The base camp is located on killer whale travel routes and humpback whales often feed within sight of camp.

Right on killer whale travel routes and close to humpback whale feeding areas.

Killer whales are on an unprecedented killing spree in California's Monterey Bay, attacking and feeding on gray whale calves, a marine biologist said.

Killer whales are regular visitors of the island, but information on their activity, sociality, and feeding strategies is scarce.

The North Island Kayak Four Day Orcas and the Humpbacks Sea Kayaking Adventure concentrates on the areas known to be the primary summer range of Northern Resident Orca (killer whale) population and the summer feeding grounds of an ever increasing number of Humpback Whales.

These are known to be the summer feeding grounds of the Northern Resident Orcas, or killer whales and surround the protected Robson Bight Ecological Reserve.

Our sea kayaking trips in the San Juan Islands are designed to visit the killer whales favorite feeding, traveling, and play areas.

Although they may get lucky and see them a couple of times over the entire summer, they certainly won't be seeing them on a near - daily basis like we do along the western edge of the San Juan Islands in the prime killer whale hunting and feeding area.

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.

Kayak with orcas in Johnstone Strait, the BEST place in the world to observe killer whales as they feed on salmon off northern Vancouver Island.

(Globicephala macrorhynchus) The pilot whale, like the killer whale, is a member of the dolphin family, and is second only to the killer whale in size.The pilot whale feeds primarily on squid, although it's known to eat octopus, cuttlefish, herring and other small fish when squid is unavailable.

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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.