Sentences with phrase «whale of a fluke»

More to them, even, than a team that has played bravely and well through a tragedy, proving in the first quarter of this season that last year's trip to the Stanley Cup finals was not just a whale of a fluke.

Not exact matches

A fluke, among other things, is a part of the tail of a whale.

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.

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.

She means a scar — probably from a propeller or boat strike — somewhere along the peduncle, a part of whale anatomy reaching from the tail fluke to the midback.

While it's no «fluke» the powerful humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is an excellent diver (it can reach depths of over 700 feet), it actually has to settle for bronze in this competition.

Suddenly, the black head of a humpback whale breached the surface of the water, its gigantic body following behind in a tremendous arc, finishing with its fluke sweeping upwards towards the sky before its entire body dove back down below.

The gray whale also lacks a dorsal fin, instead bearing 6 to 12 dorsal crenulations («knuckles»), which are raised bumps on the midline of its rear quarter, leading to the flukes.

A new species of Digenea (Trematoda: Brachycladiidae) from the Gervais» beaked whale, Mesoplodon europaeus, with comments on other cetacean liver flukes.

can watch the gray whales and their newly born calves up close from the safety of motorized skiffs as they breaching, spy - hop and fluke.

Once aboard the skiff, you can watch the gray whales and their newly born calves up close from the safety of motorized skiffs as they breaching, spy - hop and fluke.

At Orca Dreams you have only to peek outside your tent for something to catch your eye — a soaring blue heron, a breaching whale, the fluke of a humpback.

Although Ingrid's studies take place in New Zealand, the hunting techniques she describes are very similar to those used by killer whales pursuing seals in the San Juan Islands of Washington: cooperative herding, surpise attacks, and powerful blows from the flukes to deal the death blow.

This includes taking photo ID of whales flukes which helps in their estimation of population and migratory routes.

BBC Two documentary Horizon: Dippy And The Whale, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, goes behind the scenes, but if you want to see the world's biggest mammal alive and fluking, book one of these marine - inspired trips...

Photo of the historic Blue Fjord Whale Watching Boat and a Orca whale Fluke off the British Columbia Coast, CaWhale Watching Boat and a Orca whale Fluke off the British Columbia Coast, Cawhale Fluke off the British Columbia Coast, Canada.

According to Captain Dave's Dolphin and Whale Watching Safari, the whale had devised a clever way to continue swimming without the propulsion of his flukes, a hopeful adaptation to what could have been a fatal inWhale Watching Safari, the whale had devised a clever way to continue swimming without the propulsion of his flukes, a hopeful adaptation to what could have been a fatal inwhale had devised a clever way to continue swimming without the propulsion of his flukes, a hopeful adaptation to what could have been a fatal injury.

Juliette Dumas's large - scale paintings of whales» flukes manage to refresh a subject that has borne more than its share of sentimentality.

In the summer of 1995, I went sea kayaking on vacation with my father in Alaska, and a humpback whale fluked (raised its tail to dive) right next to my boat.

It kind of felt like that a-ha moment I had when the whale fluked near my kayak.

With no warning whatsoever, a large, female gray whale fluked some forty feet in front of us, rising like a missile toward the sky then falling to one side in what seemed like slow motion.

Minke whales do not display their flukes when diving, but they are active at the surface and can often been seen breaching (leaping out of the water) in a quick, fluid movement.