Sentences with phrase «whale feeding»

«The Sakhalin Shelf could be the richest gray whale feeding area in the world,» said John Chapman, a co-author who works at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon.

Swarming benthic crustaceans in the Bering and Chukchi seas and their relation to geographic patterns in gray whale feeding.

A review of gray whale feeding ecology.

The tour is the perfect blend of time on the water and miles traveled along the famed orca whale feeding corridor along San Juan Islands west coast.

Green shading depicts the main orca whale feeding and traveling route where most encounters happen.

This is not only a national park in Mexico, but a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site protecting the Blue Whale feeding grounds and Sea Turtle nesting habitat.

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

NOAA expects that by shifting the southbound shipping lane to the north by one nautical mile in the SBC, vessel traffic will be moved further away from whale feeding «hotspots» and that ship strikes will be less likely to occur.

The Humpback Whale feeding frenzy continues, and today it was Quartz, Glacier and Claw that we viewed at the bait balls.

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

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

We are proud to announce the publication of a new paper on blue whale feeding behavior that features tagging data collected within the Southern California Behavioral Response Study (SOCAL - BRS) project.

New mapping of blue whale feeding areas off Northern California show that the areas, which include high densities of krill, also overlap with busy San Francisco shipping lanes.

The data obtained allow researchers to compare the Miocene whale feeding habits to those of the extant sea whale, and strengthen the preservation potential of the Ica desert for the marine vertebrate fossil record.

BIG GULP Crowded prey makes humpback whale feeding (shown here in the open sea) worth the effort — and helps explain a whale innovation: going out to dinner at fish hatcheries.

It was collected in the deep sea about 190 miles offshore Louisiana during a 2010 mission by the NOAA Ship Pisces to study sperm whale feeding.

This was discovered by comparing past trends in whale feeding, with the characteristics of a pod of 200 gray whales off the coast of Vancouver Island.

The whales fed for a few hours that way, then split up into smaller groups and dispersed, he reported.

Grey whales feed on the seafloor at depths of up to 50 metres, and rely heavily on the shallow regions in Alaska's Bering Sea for food.

«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 feed from a range of species that have adapted to escape their fate in a variety of ways.

If you go on a whale watching tour, you might be lucky enough to catch humpback whales feeding.

«Minke whales feed in [an] extreme manner relative to all other baleen whales,» Friedlaender says.

I assume that Shearwater's presence is audible for miles ahead, with its relatively noisy engine, but then I see right whales feeding.

Regardless, it is known that such sperm whales feed on deepwater squid that may be impacted by plumes of dispersed oil.

Jeremy A. Goldbogen et al (2013)-- Underwater acrobatics by the world's largest predator: 360 ° rolling manoeuvres by lunge - feeding blue whales In this study we measured the three dimensional kinematics and foraging behaviour of blue whales feeding on krill, using suction - cup attached multi-sensor tags.

Many whales feed by filling their mouths with water, then straining organisms out of that water as they expel it, using fibrous plates in their mouth called baleen.

Humpback whales feed on hatchery - released juvenile salmon.

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.

Depending on the season, you may encounter grey whales feeding around kelp beds, humpback whales flashing their tails as they dive to feed, orca whales following the migrating salmon, or porpoises playfully gliding alongside the boat.

The beach is nicely protected from the oceanic waves from the Olympic Peninsula, and you can sometimes spot gray whales feeding in the water!

Humpback Whales feed off of Ucluelet and Tofino during summer months and there are usually a few resident Gray Whales that hang around as well.

Most baleen whales feed by taking a large mouthful of food and water, and then push the water out gaps between their baleen plates with their tongues.

In the WNP, gray whales feed during the summer in the Okhotsk Sea off northeast Sakhalin Island and off southeastern Kamchatka in the Bering Sea.

These sources included: (1) records of gray whale catches off the Korean coast between 1948 and 1966), (2) an observation of four gray whales in the western Okhotsk Sea in 1967 and (3) a sighting of a mother - Remote research station used since 1995 to conduct research on gray whales feeding off Sakhalin Island seen in the background, while a gray whale feeds near shore in the foreground.

Searching under rocks for crabs, watching humpback whales feed on a school of small fish, or being surprised as a harbor seal pops up right next to their kayak are all memories children cherish for a lifetime.

On our ferry ride to and from the Channel Islands we saw tons of humpback whales feeding.

Before those activities began, observers registered 10 to 15 of the whales feeding in the area.

Weighing up to 70 tons, the right whale feeds by swimming through a swarm of plankton with its mouth open and its head slightly above the surface.

Despite their massive size, the whales feed on tiny shrimp - like crustaceans called krill, consuming as many as 40 million krill per day.

(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.

«Whales feed in highly productive and high latitude areas and then they migrate to low productivity, low latitude areas.

Knowing the biota food source relationship to ice and what whales fed on what biota, the researchers were able to take the position of the whale kills from the admiralty records and map the decadal long position of the southern ice coverage.

(AP)-- Sperm whales feeding even in the most remote reaches of Earth's oceans have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals, according to American scientists who say the findings spell danger not only for marine life but for the millions of humans who depend on seafood.

To put it in the cautious words of a researcher: «[Humpback] whales feed almost exclusively on krill in the Antarctic and it's unknown what effect an expanding krill fishery in conjunction with climate warming might be having on the abundance of krill.»

Not exact matches

This year, shareholders will have an opportunity to weigh in on the eventual changes amidst a backdrop of continued multi-billion dollar settlements for allegations of misconduct regarding a litany of issues (including the «London Whale» trading fiasco, evidence of collusion to rig CDS and foreign exchange markets, and continued mortgage - backed security litigation), along with the Fed and FDIC's decision to label the Company's «living will» proposal as «not credible.»

(none of that even begins to talk about the fact that Noah would have needed to bring along more than 2 (or 7) individual krill to feed those whales.)

In my typical gluttonous - whale fashion, I like to slather like 9 tablespoons (hardly an exaggeration) of salted grass - fed butter on a warm slice of this banana bread.

Over the last two weeks, the poignant and dramatic story of two beluga whale calves born at the Shedd Aquarium has focused attention on the crucial but sometimes complicated task of mothers breast - feeding their infants.

A newborn wild beluga whale is cradled by a Shedd marine mammal expert during a feeding session at an Alaska aquarium.