Sentences with phrase «with whale and dolphin»

But how you defend the Japanese practice of hypocritically lying about their commercial whaling operations to supply their restaurants with whale and dolphin meat with their ridiculous Whale Research Program is unbelievable.

Visit our webpage at www.newportwhales.com/school where you can find pre and post trip activity packets along with whale and dolphin information and additional fun and educational activities listed under «Curriculum Packets.»

Go on a half - day adventure with the whale and dolphin specialists aboard the MV Whalesong.

Echolocation is a skill that has evolved independently several times in the animal kingdom in response to low visibility conditions — whether at night, as with bats and a few nocturnal birds, or in murky water, as with whales and dolphins, Wiegrebe notes.

Stand Up Paddle in the lagoon with rays and sharks, dives with whales and dolphins, treks inside the island to see waterfalls.

You may also visit the famous Galápagos turtles and tortoises that gave this archipelago its name, and also scuba dive with whales and dolphins around the islands.

Not exact matches

The day's activities could include tennis, kitesurfing, scuba diving, or hanging out with dolphins and whales in his tiny submarine.

The boat tours to swim with dolphins, watch whales, and do fishing in the ocean usually depart from Honokohau Harbor.

There is something for everyone with such activities as jungle canopy zip line tours, ATV trail riding, white water rafting, deep sea fishing, whale watching, swimming with dolphins, birding tours and more.

Let us cater to you with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres among dolphins and whales; a sophisticated dinner party with a Caribbean reef for a centerpiece; or a lakeside reception amid a wildflower garden.

Explore Shedd's Abbott Oceanarium, where you can get face - to - face with beluga whales, dolphins, sea otters, sea lions and penguins.

Dive into the deep blue sea, swim alongside a whale, leap up with a dolphin, and escape from a great white shark in this amazingly interactive book.

The discovery places bats in the select group of mammals that use ultrasound to communicate — along with whales, dolphins and some squirrels.

Killer whales have group - specific dialects, sperm whales babysit one another's young and bottlenose dolphins cooperate with other species.

Toothed whales, a group that comprises sperm whales and killer whales along with another six dozen species of lesser whales, porpoises, and dolphins, can emit a bewildering cacophony of noises underwater.

It means that false killer whales and bottlenose dolphins choose to spend time with specific members of the other species rather than randomly mixing or engaging in brief opportunistic encounters.

Some species of dolphins and whales adapted to the new environment by evolving echolocation, which allows them to «see» with their ears.

One theory taking flight says only vocal - learning animals can sync up with musical rhythms, and those species make up an exclusive club: humans, some birds, elephants, whales, and dolphins.

All three killer whales that had been housed with dolphins for several years shifted the proportions of different call types in their repertoire to more closely match the distribution found in dolphins — they produced more clicks and whistles and fewer pulsed calls.

By comparing old recordings of vocalization patterns from the cross-socialized subjects with recordings of killer whales and bottlenose dolphins housed in same - species groups, Bowles and her team were able to evaluate the degree to which killer whales learned vocalization patterns from their cross-species social partners.

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.

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

The coast appears complete with whales, dolphins, kelp and jellyfish which still enjoy the freedom of as yet unpolluted waters.

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.

In 2010, Marino banded together with other scientists, activists, and philosophers to draft a «Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans» declaring that no whales and dolphins «should be held in captivity... or removed from their natural environment.»

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).

If humans did much of their evolving in this region, in a food - rich sea and its wetlands, it would explain why we have a long list of physical features in common with aquatic mammals, such as whales, dolphins, seals, and walruses.

«And then we get complete sets of lineages we are quite familiar with: coelacanths, also lungfish, and of course our direct ancestors the tetrapods (every land vertebrate ever, plus birds, bats, dolphins and whales).&raqAnd then we get complete sets of lineages we are quite familiar with: coelacanths, also lungfish, and of course our direct ancestors the tetrapods (every land vertebrate ever, plus birds, bats, dolphins and whales).&raqand of course our direct ancestors the tetrapods (every land vertebrate ever, plus birds, bats, dolphins and whales).&raqand whales).»

Home to large marine mammals, such as dolphins and whales and an extraordinary diversity of fish, together with exotic sponge and coral ecosystems, seamounts are among the world's greatest marine - biological treasures.

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.

Additional research is therefore needed to better understand whale, dolphin, and porpoise cognition, and how it compares and differs with that of humans.

It's 5 minutes boat journey from Byron and is suppose to be one of the best snorkeling spots in Australia with manta rays, turtles, dolphins, whales and 400 different types of fishes etc..

Jill experiences a deep connection with the dolphins and whales and enjoys leading groups through transformational meditations, channelings and guided imagery

Arguing that cognitively complex animals such as chimpanzees, whales, dolphins and elephants have the capacity for limited personhood rights, Steve and his legal team are making history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform a chimpanzee from a «thing» with no rights to a «person» with legal protections.

It's Got: An opening song - and - dance extravaganza performed by retreating dolphins; the complete destruction of Earth within the first ten minutes; the mindlessly bureaucratic Vogons beautifully rendered by Henson workshop puppetry; underground aliens that give a good slapping to anyone who has an idea; Bill Nighy at his best as Slartibartfast; the entire crew of the Heart of Gold reduced to knitted wool simulacra by the Improbability Drive; Bill Bailey voicing a whale having its first (and last) encounter with the full force of gravity; and, of course, long queues.

Morton weaves together her own exciting fieldwork with scientific discoveries about the huge black - and - white dolphins known as killer whales.

The whale tale forms the center of the story but, for me, it was the bit players that stole the show - the rays wallowing in the warm water under the pier, the sun fish snoozling close to the legs of the oil rig, the green sea turtles «carrying their homes along with them like aquatic RVs» and the herd of dolphins vying with each other to perform the most dare - devilish tricks (I thought the collective noun for dolphins was pod, but Lynne refers to them as a herd, and I'm not the landlubber to question her!)

Read the writings of animal researchers, with PhD's, studying the behavior of fish, cattle, apes, whales, dolphins, rodents, bees, birds, wolves, lions, hyena, and so forth.

Skinner's theories had long been used with dolphins and whales.

Joel Beckman has mentored each trainer and most of our trainers have worked with many different species of animals, including Killer whales, dolphins, big cats, birds of prey, etc..

Liz feels truly blessed to have realized one of her lifetime dreams when she had the honor of training and performing with killer whales, dolphins and pilot whales for 10 years.

(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.

Heather has worked with many species of animals from dolphins and whales, to dogs and cats for over 17 years.

This awesome sail starts with Hawaiian spinner dolphin watching (and Humpback whale watching during whale season - December 15th thru April 15th).

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.

With a resident population of bottlenose dolphins, whales in season, spectacular bushwalking and wildflowers and endless water activities such as first - class snorkelling, surfing and endless beaches.

In the Monterey Bay, Northern right whale dolphins are commonly seen mixed with Pacific white - sided dolphins and Risso's dolphins.

The beach front location with its view of the ocean from our third floor lanai is very much like a cruise ship and allows one to watch turtles, dolphins, wind and kite surfers, as well as whales playing in the ocean in the winter months.

For those who want to get even closer to some of the ocean's most interesting creatures, SeaWorld's animal encounters can be a dream come true: Dolphin Interactions allows guests to feed, touch and play with bottlenose dolphins; Beluga Interactions offer a unique chance to enter the water with beluga whales, gentle giants known as «sea canaries» for their bird - like vocalizations.

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.