{"id":1263,"date":"2015-06-20T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/20\/socialising-sperm-whales-and-4-other\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:33:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:33:54","slug":"socialising-sperm-whales-and-4-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/socialising-sperm-whales-and-4-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialising sperm whales and 4 other cetacean species"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nToday we encountered a grand total of 5 different cetacean species:<\/div>\n
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\nPilot whale<\/a><\/div>\n
\nBottlenose dolphin<\/a><\/div>\n
\nCommon dolphin<\/a><\/div>\n
\nStriped dolphin<\/a><\/div>\n
\nSperm whale<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nIn the morning we encountered our resident bottlenose dolphins and common dolphins. We saw many baby dolphins, as we have been almost every day during the past weeks. All our passengers were delighted to observe the playful dolphins darting around our boats, especially in front of our catamaran. We also encountered a group of pilot whales in the morning. This is a migratory species that we see on and off during the spring to early summer. It was really nice to see some really big males in this group.<\/div>\n
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\nIn the afternoon we started off with an encounter with common dolphins again. We enjoyed their company for a bit, again with some tiny babies in the group. After we set out further offshore in search of something else. We came across an active group of striped dolphins leaping out of the water, although we didn’t spend much time with them because almost as soon as we arrived our lookout spotted the blows of some sperm whales nearby. There were at least 5 sperm whales in a relatively small area. We had a really beautiful encounter with 4 of them together at the surface. The 4 adult females were socialising, rolling around at the surface and always in close body contact with each other. Several times we got to see their heads, including their lower jaws, their tails and pectoral fins. A few times they also passed close between our boats, not seeming to mind our presence as they continued their socialising right next to us.<\/p>\n

To see a short video of the socialising sperm whales from the afternoon tour click HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photos from the morning:<\/b>
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\nPilot whale<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nPilot whales <\/i><\/div>\n
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\nBottlenose dolphins – mother and calf<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nSwimming with bottlenose dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nWatching bottlenose dolphins from our catamaran<\/i><\/div>\n


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\nPhotos from the afternoon:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nStriped dolphins “running” in a silver sea<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nStriped dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nSperm whale tail<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nTwo curious sperm whale approaching us<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nSperm whales socialising (a head in the foreground and a tail in the background)<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nOne is turning on her side…<\/i><\/div>\n
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\n…and showed us her belly!<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nThe mouth of a sperm whale<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today we encountered a grand total of 5 different cetacean species: Pilot whale Bottlenose dolphin Common dolphin Striped…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3,10,4,90,242,76],"yoast_head":"\nSocialising sperm whales and 4 other cetacean species - 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\/socialising-sperm-whales-and-4-other\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Socialising sperm whales and 4 other cetacean species - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today we encountered a grand total of 5 different cetacean species: Pilot whale Bottlenose dolphin Common dolphin Striped…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/socialising-sperm-whales-and-4-other\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-06-20T19:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:33:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5228.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"427\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\">\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\/socialising-sperm-whales-and-4-other\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5228.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5228.png\",\"width\":640,\"height\":427},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/socialising-sperm-whales-and-4-other\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/socialising-sperm-whales-and-4-other\/\",\"name\":\"Socialising sperm whales and 4 other cetacean species - 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