Sentences with phrase «tail flukes»

Researchers at the Cascadia Research Collective in Olympia, Washington, tracked seven whales — which they recognized by the markings on their tail flukes — from their summer feeding grounds in the Antarctic Ocean to their winter breeding grounds off the Pacific coast of Central America.

For example, researchers can recognize individual humpback whales because each whale has a unique black - and - white pattern on the underside of its tail flukes.

Sometimes they slap their tail flukes on the surface, frightening their fishy prey so they school, making the fish easier to eat.

The biggest blue whales are longer than two city buses and heavier than a locomotive, and they're powered by relatively small flippers and tail flukes.

The dolphins that do survive are hoisted from the water, often by their tail flukes, and transported to the human - run parks and other facilities.

They are highly acrobatic and often we are lucky enough to see a performance from their bag of tricks which includes breaching, tail lobbing, lunge feeding, tail fluking and spy hopping.

And then when a tail fluke is spotted, or better, a whale puts on a real show for you, it's quite something, isn't it!

They can be differentiated from Humpback whales from their 8 - 14 small bumps known as «knuckles», between the dorsal hump and the tail flukes.

The underside of the tail fluke usually is white with black patterning, by which each animal can be identified.

To see an animal the size of 11 elephants rise out of the water or wave its» tail flukes is a thrill of a lifetime.