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Subject: Live Animal | Type: Photo | Life Stages And Gender: Juvenile | Behaviors: Locomotion | Anatomy: Coloration/Patterning :: Disruptive Coloration (Spots/Stripes)
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Sea World, San Diego, California
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Sea World, San Diego, California
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Subject: Live Animal | Type: Photo | Life Stages And Gender: Adult/Sexually Mature | Anatomy: Sexual | Behaviors: Locomotion :: Swimming
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near Egmont Key, Tampa Bay, Florida
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Sea World, San Diego, California
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Subject: Live Animal | Type: Photo | Life Stages And Gender: Adult/Sexually Mature | Behaviors: Locomotion :: Swimming | Anatomy: Coloration/Patterning :: Disruptive Coloration (Spots/Stripes)
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Sea World, San Diego, California
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Seaworld San Diego, California
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Subject: Live Animal | Type: Photo | Life Stages And Gender: Adult/Sexually Mature | Behaviors: Locomotion :: Swimming | Anatomy: Coloration/Patterning :: Disruptive Coloration (Spots/Stripes)
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Imagine yourself immersed in a chilly, blue, three-dimensional world, one where vision isn’t much use but sound travels far. That’s the leap of the imagination demanded of scientists like Volker Deecke who study killer whales. Deecke and his colleagues must sort myth from science to learn the secrets of these consummate predators. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from the Shetland Islands. Photo Credit: Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758). Public Domain.
read moreDuration: 5:30Published: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:31:01 +0000
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Description: Sent in by the crew of the PBLJ this movie clip and these images show a pod of Pilot Whales close to the rig seemingly swimming by as normal until they are disturbed, swim closer to the rig than normal, and shoot off in various directions.
Closer examination of the video footage kindly sent into SERPENT shows several Orca Killer Whales chasing the pod of Pilots and their younger calves. The Orcas have characteristic tall fins. Item Type: Video Title: Pilot whales and killer whales around rig Species: Globicephala melaena, Orcinus orca Behaviour: Pilot whales swimming on surface near rig. Killer whales arrive and appear to chase them. Pilot whales scatter. Site: Atlantic -- North Sea -- West of Shetland -- FoinavenNorth Sea -- West of Shetland -- Foinaven Site Description: Topside Depth (m): Surface Countries: UK -- West of Shetland Habitat: Open ocean Rig: Paul B Loyd Junior Project Partners: BP, Transocean, Subsea 7 Deposited By: Rob Curry Deposited On: 18 September 2007
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Coral Sea, Duration 13 seconds
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Eastern Pacific Ocean, Duration 14 seconds
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Randers, Jylland, Danmark
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Milford Sound, New Zealand
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Chilean Dolphin - Cephalorhynchus eutropia Chilean Dolphin - Cephalorhynchus eutropia (known as Tonina Chilena)Taken at: Estero Coloane, Isla HosteFrom
Wikimedia Commons
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Orca atra, Cope. Killer. Length, 20 feet (After Scammon).
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Views of two skulls of prodelphinus attenuatus (Gray), from Honolulu, H. I..
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Sotalia fluvialilis (Gervais). River dolphin.. Length 5 feet (After Gervais)
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Steno perspicillatus, Peters. Long-beaked Dolphin.. Length 8 feet (?) (After Peters
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Delphinus delphis, Linne. Common Dolphin.. Length, 6 1/2 feet. (From a sketch by J. H. Emerton)
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Tursiops tursio, (Bonnaterre) Van Ben. and Gervais. Common Bottlenose Dolphin. Length 11 feet (After Flower)
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Rawson
