{"id":1276,"date":"2015-06-05T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/05\/three-species-of-whales-around\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:33:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:33:41","slug":"three-species-of-whales-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/three-species-of-whales-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Three species of whales around"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nToday we had a beautiful summer’s day out on the ocean. Three different boats went out in the morning to see whales and dolphins in their natural environment. A few minutes after leaving the marina we encountered a small group of common dolphins<\/a>, but we had not much time to be with them because the lookout had already seen the sperm whales<\/a>. When we first arrived to the area no whales came to the surface. We waited a little bit, but we left the area to see one of the baleen whale species, which turned out to be sei whales<\/a>. They were juvelines, and they were almost all the time diving. After a while, the looktout spotted sperm whales so we changed the area to be with them. At first we had only calves, but a mother sperm whale<\/a> appeared a little bit later. The catamaran crew also briefly spotted a fin whale<\/a>, the second largest animal in the world.<\/div>\n
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\nIn the afternoon we spent time with three fin whales<\/a>. We started with one that didn’t spend much time at the surface, so we moved to another area of two fin whales and soon a group of common dolphins<\/a> came to join us and the whales (to do some whale watching). Just leaving the whales we ended with one lonely bottlenose dolphin but later on we encountered a group of bottlenose dolphins<\/a> and later also more common dolphins. In these groups there were some newborn calves, so young that the dorsal fin were still soft. What a blessing today, some of the largest animals in the world plus some of the smallest cetaceans (the newborn ones).
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\nPhotos from the morning:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
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\nSei whale<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nSperm whale<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nSperm whale on its side (half fluke sticking up)<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nSperm whale fluke<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nMother and baby common dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nCommon dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n

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

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\nCommon dolphin calf<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nCommon dolphin and Cory’s shearwaters feeding together<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nFeeding frenzy<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nPhotos form the afternoon:<\/span><\/b>
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\nOne of three fin whales<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nFin whale surfacing<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBottlenose dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nWatching common dolphins from the zodiac boat<\/i><\/div>\n

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Watching bottlenose dolphins from the zodiac boat<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nWatching dolphins from our boat “Song of Whales”<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today we had a beautiful summer’s day out on the ocean. 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