Orcas are known to have an extremely varied diet, with different populations having a preference for unique species of prey, ...

Each lobe of the tail is called a fluke. • Pigmentation, barnacles and scars create unique patterns and markings on whale flukes. • Although humpback whales have been seen in the Gulf of ...

Prince of Whales The flat, horizontal lobes of a humpback whales' tail is unique to the individual ... boiling water," says Ganley. Flicking her fluke off the coast of Canada, Big Mama symbolised ...

While impressive, the scene was reminiscent of a more astonishing event documented nine years ago, involving an orca that used its flukes to fling a harbor seal at least 70 feet skyward.

All the while, the baby vocalized and moved its tail.. The pod was nowhere to be found, and “efforts to get the orca back into the water were unsuccessful.” Monique King of the Marine Mammal ...

While impressive, the scene was reminiscent of a more astonishing event documented nine years ago, involving an orca that used its flukes to fling a harbor seal at least 70 feet skyward. The ...

It was not a great day to be a seabird in Monterey Bay, California, on Saturday, September 7, as an energetic pod of killer whales was teaching ... spy-hopping, tail-slapping, playfully ...

It was not a great day to be a seabird in Monterey Bay, California, on Saturday, September 7, as an energetic pod of killer whales was teaching their calves ... the vigorous orcas breaching, ...