Thursday, May 31, 2012

New Hope for Southern Residents

L119 was born recently to 25 year old L77 and is the second documented calf for this whale. The first was seen in 2010 for just one day. L pod is part of the southern resident killer whale endangered population now totaling 89 animals (CWR). 190435575_b2b488f798_o- L12's

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Bottlenose Dolphins use Greeting Calls

In cases where dolphin pods joined and swam together, the researchers found, such meetings were preceded by one dolphin in the group producing a signature whistle and another dolphin in the second group answering. When dolphin groups swam by one another and didn't join, these meet-and-greet whistles were absent.

Live Science

Wednesday, February 22, 2012