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An orca has caused a stir appearing off a well ... be identified by a notch on his dorsal fin and a missing chunk on his fluke, or tail fin. He was photographed off Chanonry Point, near Fortrose ...

There are just a couple of UK species of whales or dolphins with distinctive white patches of this size on the tail flukes.

Aerial drone footage shows the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) missing its iconic lobed fluke, which is responsible for propulsion while swimming. Taken by Eric Guth under NMFS permit # 24359 ...

which means the calf was swimming right behind the pectoral fin of the orca," she said. "The echelon position allows a calf to make fewer tail fluke movements than when swimming on its own and ...