Sentences with phrase «more humpbacks»

The summer action is starting to kick into full - gear as more and more humpbacks start showing up through out the Monterey Bay.

We laughed as inevitably we missed some fantastic feeding as it happened out of the corner of our eyes, but we were fortunate to watch many more humpbacks feeding at the surface.

The researchers discovered a smaller but equally dense krill swarm in a nearby bay along with more humpbacks.

Looks wise, the four - door hatch appears more humpback - shaped than sporty; from the side profile, the body looks a bit short for its 103.5 - inch wheelbase.

Each spring we are seeing more humpback whales returning to the area as they migrate back after wintering in Hawaii and Mexico to spend the summer feeding in our area.

Not exact matches

For more than 30 years Flip Nicklin has been photographing the world's whales — from humpbacks in Hawaii to narwhals in the Northwest Passage to sperm whales in Sri Lanka.

Humpback whales migrate farther than any other mammal, say researchers who tracked them along their more than 5,000 - mile route.

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environment.

«Humpback whales feeding on fish showed more variability in their lunge strategies, and, despite prey being much faster, actually lunge more slowly,» says Dr Goldbogen.

Humpback whales, which can travel more than 5,100 miles annually, hold the record for mammals.

Palumbi and Roman base their figures on analysis of mitochondrial DNA in blood samples taken from more than 312 humpbacks, 370 fin whales, and 87 minke whales, mostly in the North Atlantic.

Using this method, they estimate a humpback, which is a baleen whale, could ingest more than 300,000 microplastic particles per day.

An international team of hundreds of scientists photographed more than 18,000 humpback whale tails, or flukes, from Alaska to Guatemala and from the Philippines to Russia.

Humpback whales, for example, are a species of baleen whale known for grand migrations from the upper latitudes — like Pacific waters near Alaska — to the subtropics where nutrients are more scarce, near Hawaii and Mexico.

They usually eat fish, but a group of dusky sharks have been seen ganging up on a baby humpback whale, suggesting attacks may be more common than we thought

But now thanks to the international whaling ban, researchers say there are at least 21,000 humpbacks, and possibly even more, according to numbers reported in this month's Marine Mammal Science.

The East African humpback whale population is growing, so we might see more shark attacks in future, Dicken's paper suggests.

Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti worked with researchers and wildlife experts to collect billions of data points, taken from digital tags on humpback whales, magnetic fields tracking badgers, QR codes mapping an individual ant, and more.

Species such as fin and humpback whales are now spending more time in the Arctic, and boreal species such as the red fox and brown bear now interact more routinely with their arctic counterparts — the arctic fox and polar bear.

You might even take a biopsy, a small sample of whale flesh, and do a more detailed study of genetic differences among individual Humpbacks.

As you might expect, lots of Web pages (more then 400) have videos of humpback whales in both the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

And with BMW already debuting the 8 Series, pushing electrification more than even and the 6 Series switching to a humpback Gran Turismo, it doesn't seem like such a car will ever exist.

Several appended pages offer more information about the actual event, whale rescues in general, and humpback whales in particular.

Every year at the start of Fall more than 60 % of the North Pacific Humpback Whale population will begin their migration from Alaska to Hawaii, with many of them choosing to stay in the waters off of Maui during their visit.

The resort is full - service, with everything a luxury traveler expects from a Ritz - Carlton resort, and more: • Lovely rooms and even lovelier suites; every accommodation has a lanai porch or balcony • A wonderful Ritz - Carlton Club Level lounge • Warm, personal service • Varied, high - end in - house dining • A perfectionistic spa • A cabana - laden pool complex with social, playful, and romantic appeals • 36 holes of superlative golf against a sparkling Pacific backdrop • From December to April, hanging with an annual tour group: Maui's migratory humpback whales

Visit more than seven national parks in the immediate area including Corcovado National Park, home to 3 % of the world's biodiversity, Marino Ballena National Park for humpback whale watching.

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While this makes for great photo opportunities, other travelers who like to be more hands - on might opt for a whale watching tour in Oahu's southern seas — during the month of February, you're likely to catch a glimpse of a majestic kohola, or humpback whale, making its annual migration.

You might want to make your tour even more special with humpback whales.

Telegragh Cove is a great take off point for tours to see Grizzly Bears, Orca and Humpback Whales, Pacific White Sided Dolphins and much more.

Keep your senses alert for the tell - tale blow of some of the area's more famous residents like orcas, humpback whales, minke whales, dolphins and porpoise.

Although known nationally and internationally for the best humpback whale watching in the world, Hervey Bay has a lot more to offer its visitors.

Only with a professional Captain and an expert crew, guests will learn more information about the North Pacific Humpback Whale; habits, new research and statistics, ways to spot them in the ocean, and a chance to hear a whale song.

More than 1500 humpback whales visit Hervey Bay on their migration south to the Antarctic in August September and October.

Towards the middle of this month we started seeing more and more adult humpback whales return to the bay from their breeding grounds off the coast of Mexico and parts of Central America.

You'll see grays, humpbacks, orcas, and more!

Learn more about the humpback whales that visit Maui waters each winter (mid-November to mid-April) by taking a whale watching cruise or by visiting our National Marine Sanctuary or the Maui Ocean Center.

Various species can be seen during this time, including gray whales, humpbacks, orcas, and more.

To make things even more exciting, humpback whales have come to Monterey Bay early this year.

More often will be sightings of humpback whales and other marine mammals.

Especially the late August and September trips as this is when we large numbers of Steller sea lions usually return to the area from their remote breeding rookeries, high numbers of sea birds congregate in the area, and humpback whales become more surface active as they feed on small schooling fish.

However, DNA analysis by studies, such as the one by Takeshi Sasaki (of the Tokyo Institute of Technology) and colleagues, [13] indicates certain rorquals, such as the humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, and the fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus, are more closely related to the gray whale than they are to some other rorquals, such as the minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata.

Everything comes together here; an extensive maze of islands, rich First Nations culture, extraordinary wildlife encounters with orcas, humpback whales, bears, eagles and much, much more.

[12] Some recent DNA analyses have suggested that certain rorquals of the family Balaenopteridae, such as the humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, and fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus, are more closely related to the gray whale than they are to some other rorquals, such as the minke whales.

The nutrient rich waters in which we operate are near core habitat for Humpback Whales, Northern Resident Killer Whales / Orca, Steller Sea Lions, Dall's Porpoise and more.

Sightings of Humpback whales have known to happen as early as February, but are more consistent from June through September.

For example, did you know that the heart of a mature humpback whale weighs up to 400 pounds or more?

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