Sentences with phrase «orca sounds»

Both Orca Tours vessels have underwater microphones (hydrophones) connected to speakers, enabling you to hear Orca sounds anywhere on the vessel during your exciting Stubbs Island Vancouver Island Orca Tours.

His staff blared orca sounds into the straits of Juan de Fuca.

Monitor endangered Pacific Northwest killer whales by detecting orca sounds and measuring noise levels using hydrophones

In this quick - paced entry in the Orca Soundings series, a masked teen asks for more than money when he holds up a convenience store.

When he pulls a knife, Jill must fight for her life in this Orca Soundings title, written for reluctant readers.

Not exact matches

Orcas form tight - knit groups in the wild, each with its own dialect, so scientists think that their ability to learn new sounds may be key to how they communicate and interact with one other.

The orca's efforts were overall «recognizable» as attempted copies, comparative psychologist José Zamorano Abramson of Complutense University of Madrid and colleagues report January 31 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Just how close Wikie's imitations come to the originals depends on whether you're emphasizing the rhythm or other aspects of sound, Abramson says.

Then at noon one Monday in March, the orcas simply swam under the floating bridge at the north end of Hood Canal and disappeared into Puget Sound.

He had been captured in Puget Sound in 1976 as part of an operation to supply orcas to aquariums.

Killer whales (Orcinus orca) can engage in cross-species vocal learning: when socialized with bottlenose dolphins, they shifted the types of sounds they made to more closely match their social partners.

Take a black Lab mix, for example, that helps marine biologists collect orca scat in Puget Sound by sniffing it out up to a nautical mile away.

Orcas are known to communicate amongst themselves using an array of sounds, and the animals have even demonstrated «dialects» — variations in communication signals that are specific to certain groups of the animals — the scientists reported in a new study.

The orca could also imitate a wolf's howl, an elephant's trumpeting, and the sounds of a creaking door and a «raspberry.»

And in 2006, scientists reported in the journal Biology Letters that a killer whale in Nootka Sound, British Columbia, could imitate a sea lion's bark — likely because the orca was solitary «and striving for attention,» said Griffin, one of the researchers who analyzed those calls.

Our guides can often distinguish different orca clans by the sounds that they make and even identify many of the individual orcas through the shapes and markings of their dorsal fins.

We provide an underwater hydrophone on all of our Orca Water tours and will often stop to listen to the sounds the orcas make.

It encompasses Blackfish Sound, home to countless small islands including Hanson Island, the base for the Robson Bight (Michael Bigg) Ecological Reserve, established to provide a sanctuary for Orcas.

The youngsters were in a playful mood, splashing about and flipping their flukes, and several of the orcas spent time foraging as they entered Blackfish Sound.

She was in Blackfish Sound at the time, and half an hour later in front of the lab, where, the listeners swore, several of the orcas paused and floated at the surface, one of them clearly vocalizing in air, before carrying on.

From right in Campbell River, you can hop onto one of our boats and head out on the waters of Johnstone Strait, and Desolation Sound, off the Discovery Islands, and sometimes even the Sunshine Coast to watch a pod of Orcas or to witness a Humpback Whale breaching the surface.

As we kayak into Blackfish Sound and Johnstone Strait we keep our eyes peeled for the blows from killer whales (orcas) and humpback whales.

The winds and tidal currents for the day will determine not only whether we pass through Blackney or Weynton Passage and into Blackfish Sound but also what time we must do so, but either direction provides access to spectacular scenery and great opportunities for Humpback, Orca and sea lion activity.

Discover the wildlife and scenery of Johnstone Strait & Queen Charlotte Strait while paddling between camps and listening to the Orcas with hydrophones; Paddle Blackney Passage and into Blackfish sound and investigate the shallows in search of colorful, inter-tidal creatures.

There is no better place in the world to kayak with both humpback and killer whales (orcas) than Johnstone Strait and Blackfish Sound, situated off the northeastern corner of Vancouver Island.

Sea kayaking with orcas and humpback whales the wildlife - rich waters of Johnstone Strait, Blackfish Sound and the Broughton Archipelago is an experience to remember.

Our tours take you through the cold nutrient rich waters of Black Fish Sound and the Broughton Archipelago, a stunning cluster of islands and calm inlets that create the boundary to Robson Bight, a protected marine environment to which the Orcas return each year.

«I am sure sharks would get scared of the sound of something that regularly hunts them, but I don't think many sharks in the tropics have to worry much about Orcas.

This part of Prince William Sound is the best place to encounter orca whales from sea kayaks in Alaska.

Turtleback Farm Inn is a country farmhouse located on Orcas Island, the loveliest of the San Juan Islands which dot the sparkling waters of Puget Sound.

A collection of itineraries highlight everything from the trail of Lewis and Clark to the orcas of Puget Sound.

Part of your tour will be spent in Blackfish Sound, home of orcas and a high concentration of humpback whales!

Kayak with Killer Whales at their Orca base camp in Johnstone Strait, or take one of their kayak expeditions to Desolation Sound or the Discovery Islands of British Columbia.

Kayak with Killer Whales at our Orca base camp in Johnstone Strait, or take one of our kayak expeditions to Desolation Sound or the Discovery Islands.