{"id":1278,"date":"2015-06-03T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/03\/sperm-whales-pilot-whales-and-dolphins\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:33:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:33:40","slug":"sperm-whales-pilot-whales-and-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/sperm-whales-pilot-whales-and-dolphins\/","title":{"rendered":"Sperm whales, pilot whales and dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nToday we started with a sea so calm that it felt like we were flying across the ocean. We encountered a very social sperm whale<\/a> family. We never got to see any flukes as they were not doing feeding dives, only being social. We also encountered common dolphins<\/a> and playful bottlenose dolphins<\/a> and in both groups we had some old friends. Among the common dolphins we saw Victor, a dolphin with a flopped dorsal fin. And among the bottlenose dolphin we saw Broken Jaw, and s\/he still looks really healthy and fat. Plus a hammerhead shark<\/a>. In the afternoon we started with a large group of pilot whales<\/a> with lots of young calves. Later we got to see a sperm whale<\/a> breach twice. We stayed a long time enjoying these whales before we got a fluke saying “bye” to us and we continued. Around the whales we also had common dolphins<\/a> and a loggerhead turtle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nFluke from the morning (far away)<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nSperm whale logging<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nWatching a sperm whale from our catamaran<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nSperm whale adult and calf pair<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBottlenose dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n
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\n“Broken Jaw”<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nOur zodiac boat with an active group of common dolphins<\/i><\/p>\n
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\nOur zodiac boat out on the water<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nCommon tern<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n
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\nPhotos from the afternoon:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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\nPilot whale<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n

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 Sara cleaning the ocean<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nPilot whale<\/a> mother and calf pair<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nPilot whale<\/a> calf<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nSperm whale<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n

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\nSperm whale<\/a> fluking<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today we started with a sea so calm that it felt like we were flying across the ocean.…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,3,201,10,90,57,210,242],"yoast_head":"\nSperm whales, pilot whales and dolphins - 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\/sperm-whales-pilot-whales-and-dolphins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sperm whales, pilot whales and dolphins - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today we started with a sea so calm that it felt like we were flying across the ocean.…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/sperm-whales-pilot-whales-and-dolphins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-06-03T21:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:33:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_2677.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=\"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\/sperm-whales-pilot-whales-and-dolphins\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_2677.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_2677.png\",\"width\":640,\"height\":427},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/sperm-whales-pilot-whales-and-dolphins\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/sperm-whales-pilot-whales-and-dolphins\/\",\"name\":\"Sperm whales, pilot whales and dolphins - 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