Sentences with phrase «whales and dolphins on»

We might be able to take a cue from whales and dolphins on where to hang «Do Not Fish» signs.

You may also see some whales and dolphins on this tour, if it is the season for their migrations.

Unwind and relax or surf the world renown reef break, fishing at its most exceptional and diverse, snorkelling, swimming with Manta rays, admire the whales and dolphins on their annual pilgrimage north, turtles hatching in season and the laid back atmosphere the» camp of the moon» has to offer.

We saw whales and dolphins on several occasions.

The world's best year - round whale watching — including the greatest concentration of blue whales and dolphins on earth — is only at Dana Point, Southern California.

Not exact matches

Puerto Vallarta itself is tucked between the lush green mountains and the cerulean blue waters of the Pacific Ocean's Bay of Banderas, the second - largest bay in the world where on any given day, you might see whales and dolphins jumping and sailfish soaring

We have learned so much about the intelligence, cognitive and social, of so many animals — humpback whales, orcas, bottlenose dolphins, elephants, gray parrots, dogs, and so on — all of it quite fascinating, thought - provoking, and in many cases delightful, and it seems a cruel impoverishment of our speculative and moral imaginations to dismiss it all as a process of biomechanical stimulus and response, only accidentally resembling the workings of human consciousness.

The new find helps shed light on the evolution of beaked whales as well as their competition: Soon after M. gregarius swam the region's seas, dolphins appeared on the scene, and their success in shallow coastal waters (where they now dominate), may have driven ziphiids to abandon foraging in surface waters.

«In sperm whales, and likely other whales and dolphins, culture has the potential to affect population biology, and so issues as diverse as genetic evolution and the impacts of global warming on the species.»

Whales and dolphins rely on their responsive hearing to interpret returning echolocation clicks.

Environmental critics contend the sonar pulses are too loud, producing a devastating impact on whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals that rely on echolocation to communicate, navigate, and locate prey.

It also defeated a US bid to remove restrictions on bobcat pelts, as well as Japanese efforts to engineer support for dolphin and whale hunts.

The finding, experts say, has implications for conservation management, which often solely focuses on the number of animals in a population, and may extend to chimpanzees, dolphins, whales, and other species.

«We had no idea what they were even feeding on in the Atlantic, but eventually it has became more and more clear that minke whales are the predominant prey source for certain killer whales in our area,» explained Stevens, who published a field guide to whales and dolphins in Atlantic Canada in 2013.

Then they divided the cetaceans according to their dietary preferences: filter feeders, such as the blue whales, that gulp down huge quantities of krill; cephalopod specialists, such as sperm whales, that dive to great depths to feed on squid; and generalist fish eaters, such as bottlenose dolphins.

The drive - hunting of dolphins has a long history in the Solomon Islands, particularly at the island of Malaita, according to Marc Oremus, a biologist with the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium and lead author on the study.

Jōmon living in the Arctic - like northern islands of Japan subsisted on dolphins and whales, whereas those from Japan's more tropical southern extreme engaged in more traditional fishing.

That was also the case for two kinds of bats and toothed whales, a group that includes dolphins and certain whales, that have converged on a specialized hunting strategy called echolocation.

Questioning our assumptions on autonomous vehicles, and dolphins and whales that can protect themselves from loud noise

The delegates approved an initiative calling on member countries to pass laws banning the live capture of whales and dolphins for commercial purposes — the first time that an international body has demanded that this practice cease.

The earliest whales were predators with sharp teeth — a legacy carried on by today's orcas, dolphins and other toothed whales.

As such, it provides the first real glimpse into what baleen whales were like before they evolved their feeding filters.Measuring about 9 to 11 feet long, the specimen was the size of a bottlenose dolphin, with huge eyes that took up a quarter of its head.Instead of echolocating, it most likely depended on keen underwater vision and sharp hearing to track fish and small sharks, which it would then tear apart and shred with its 1.4 - inch - long serrated teeth.

Among the issues these committees were asked to look into this year were the possible dangers of whale watching, the effects of chemical pollution on whales, how the IWC might protect dolphins, porpoises and other small cetaceans, and whether subsistence whaling by indigenous peoples should be subject to scientific management.

On 10 April, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) in Tucson, Arizona, joined three other organizations — the Humane Society of the United States, Defenders of Wildlife, and Whale and Dolphin Conservation — to file a federal lawsuit calling for the government to increase the amount of space designated as critical habitat for the whales under the US Endangered Species Act.

This species of small whale, not much larger than many dolphins, is rarely seen and is known largely through analysis of the few that occasionally strand on shore.

In this study, researchers conducted de novo sequencing on a minke whale with 128x average depth of coverage, and re-sequenced three minke whales, a fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), a bottlenose dolphin, and a finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides).

Birds obsess; horses on occasion get pathologically compulsive; dolphins and whales, especially those in captivity, self - mutilate.

The beached carcasses of 110 long - finned pilot whales and 20 bottle - nosed dolphins were discovered by an abalone diver on the west coast of the island on Monday.

Over 100 whales and 20 dolphins stranded on a remote beach in Tasmania may have been driven to their deaths in a desperate attempt to escape a predator, Australian scientists have suggested.

SAERI, Falklands Conservation and EPD are inviting people to test the form that is currently focussed on dolphins, whales, orcas and seals (elephant seals, sea lion, fur seals and leopard seals).

We have tagged several fin whales and blue whales (including the one below) and a single Risso's dolphin (though just briefly on the later).

We found that PCBs were at excessively high concentrations in the blubber of several marine apex predator species across Europe, including killer whales and bottlenose dolphins, and were associated with long - term and on - going population declines.

Over 160 tags have been deployed on individuals of nine different species and 75 complete experimental BRS sequences have been conducted on individuals from seven different federally protected marine mammal species (Cuvier's beaked whale, Baird's beaked whale, sperm whale, Risso's dolphin, blue whale, fin whale, and humpback whale).

Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly - fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

These folks will go on and on about how they don't need a leash to train a dolphin or killer whale, and expound on the marvels of their training techniques.

(Whale and Dolphin Conservation Press Release) In the aftermath of SeaWorld's announcement to end its captive breeding program for orcas Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) has a launched a new campaign calling on people not to swim with captive whales and dolphins.

On all of Island Packers» trips to the Channel Islands, they cruise with an eye out for wildlife, especially everyone's favorites — whales and dolphins.

Look for whales and dolphins in the water and birds and critters on the shore.

The entire west Maui coastline, from Lahaina, Ka'anapali, Honokahau, Napili, Kahana and Kapalua is teeming with all types of tropical fish, dolphins, green sea turtles, Hawaiian monk seals, hump back whales, the list goes on.

Here you can see whales playing in the bay, or watch the gannets and dolphins following and feasting on the Sardine Run, an annual migration of huge shoals of sardines who sometimes come so close to the shore that they swim on to the beach.

On this project, you will help develop and maintain a local resource centre in Kizimkazi with information on dolphins, whales, sharks and other types of fish, the local marine ecosystem and local marine conservatioOn this project, you will help develop and maintain a local resource centre in Kizimkazi with information on dolphins, whales, sharks and other types of fish, the local marine ecosystem and local marine conservatioon dolphins, whales, sharks and other types of fish, the local marine ecosystem and local marine conservation.

They have been known to attack dolphins and feed on whale carcasses.

This 75 - to 85 - minute circumnavigates the entire island, providing bird's - eye views of... MORE all the other key attractions outlined in this story, including the fabled Napali Coast (keep an eye out for whales and dolphins) and Waimea Canyon, as well as some sites you can't easily access except by helicopter, such as the crater of Mt. Waialeale, the second - highest point on the island and one of the rainiest places on the planet.

Swim with whale sharks, play with wild dolphins and explore World Heritage - listed Ningaloo Reef on Western Australia's coastline.

Spend a day on the water visiting Mackenzie Rock, fishing for cod and halibut or watching for whales, dolphins, seals and sea lions

Sea turtles, dolphins, and huge manta rays are often spotted near shore, and during the winter months, humpback and gray whales pass on their migration south from Alaska.

On the water, we kayaked and paddle boarded with the mantarays, school of spinner dolphins and within close proximity of the whales.

Catching a ride on a boat on the Pacific Coast of Baja California brings the joyous vision of whale and dolphins frolicking in the longest peninsulas in the world — it stretches 800 miles (1,300 km) from the California border.

On our ten - minute boat ride back, the dolphins join us again — playing in the wake of our boat — and just slightly off in the distance we see the three Gray Whales happily chugging along in the same direction as us.

As we boarded the boat, we heard excited passengers talk about the whale and dolphin sightings on the way over from Maui.