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\nWe often write about familiar sperm whales<\/a>, the ones that we recognise and know well because we see them on a regular basis. This morning we encountered an unfamiliar group of sperm whales that we did not recognise. We still have to compare our ID photos of these whales to our catalogue to be 100% sure that we haven’t seen them before, as we now have about 300 sperm whales in our catalogue so we cannot remember them all. Our zodiac boat that arrived to the sperm whale area first encountered several whales at the surface and got to see some nice tails from them. Later the catamaran arrived and stayed with one curious adult sperm whale. There were blows of other whales around, but this whale was so curious that it was worth it to stay and watch just this one. We got to see the sperm whale rolling around, upside down and pocking its head out of the water as it passed nearby. In the end we also got to see a beautiful tail from this whale. We also had common dolphins<\/a> around during the day and had a particularly memorable encounter with a tight group of about 80 of them in the afternoon. In the morning one of our boats also had a brief encounter with some bottlenose dolphins<\/a> to make a total of 3 cetacean species for the day. A few people on the catamaran in the morning with a keen eye also spotted a hammerhead shark<\/a> as we were heading out. Another great summer’s day!<\/div>\n
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\nSperm whale encountered by the zodiac boat<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nThe curious sperm whale encountered by the catamaran<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nHead of the curious sperm whale<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nBottlenose dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nCommon dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n

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\n  Swimming with common dolphins in the afternoon<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We often write about familiar sperm whales, the ones that we recognise and know well because we see…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3,10,4,242,110],"yoast_head":"\nUnfamiliar sperm whales - Azores Whales<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/unfamiliar-sperm-whales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unfamiliar sperm whales - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We often write about familiar sperm whales, the ones that we recognise and know well because we see…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/unfamiliar-sperm-whales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-08-15T17:42:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:34:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0078-CC3B3pia.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Azores Whales\",\"description\":\"Azores Whale Watching Blog\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/unfamiliar-sperm-whales\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0078-CC3B3pia.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSC_0078-CC3B3pia.png\",\"width\":640,\"height\":424},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/unfamiliar-sperm-whales\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/unfamiliar-sperm-whales\/\",\"name\":\"Unfamiliar sperm whales - 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