{"id":1795,"date":"2013-06-25T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/25\/false-killer-whale-and-bottlenose\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:30:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:30:15","slug":"false-killer-whale-and-bottlenose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/false-killer-whale-and-bottlenose\/","title":{"rendered":"False killer whale and bottlenose dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Today the sea was a little bit rough, so we had tours only during the morning, fortunately the day was sunny. So we start to trip with some waves looking for cetaceans, the first thing was a couple of common dolphins<\/a> that quickly disappeared. In the beginning we were trying to spot a blue whale<\/a> our vigia<\/a> had spotted, probably the same individual we saw yesterday<\/a>. After a short time we started to see a few splashes. We didn’t get to see the blue whale, but what we did see was false killer whales<\/a>, the first of 2013!!! It has been exactly 6 months since we last saw false killer whales on Christmas Day<\/a> last year. The group we saw today was hunting, although we could not see what they were feeding on we got to see a lot of activity at the surface. After a bit of searching our skipper of the catamaran “Cetus” saw a group of bottlenose dolphins<\/a>. We got to see the most amazing wildlife show from these dolphins as they were leaping high out of the water, sometimes 3-4 m vertically into the air. We reminded our passengers aboard why we should not see dolphins in captivity, especially after seeing such an incredible show in the wild, from willing dolphins. Among the leaping dolphins we also saw at least 4 flying fish<\/a> that were disturbed by the dolphins passing by them and as a result took into the air to get away. <\/p>\n

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\nFalse killer whales: 2 well-marked individuals that we can identify by their dorsal fins<\/em><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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\nOne of our boats with the false killer whales<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nFalse killer whales<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nYellow-legged gull seen feeding off the scraps from the false killer whales<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nWatching false killer whales<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nFalse killer whale calf with its mother<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nFive false orcas<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nOur biologist Miranda showing images of the species<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBottlenose dolphins<\/div>\n

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\nOne of the many high jumps we saw from the bottlenose dolphins<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nBottlenose dolphins: mother and calf<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nBottlenose dolphin putting on a show for our catamaran customers<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nJust in front of “Song of Whales”<\/i><\/div>\n
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\n“Flying” dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nFlying fish<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nThe best nature show ever!<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nYoung bottlenose dolphins having a good time<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nJust before the… splash!<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBeautiful face<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nJumping in front of “Cetus” giving us an unforgivable show<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nThe landing<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today the sea was a little bit rough, so we had tours only during the morning, fortunately the day…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,3,201,10,162,4,238,244,102],"yoast_head":"\nFalse killer whale and bottlenose 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\/false-killer-whale-and-bottlenose\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"False killer whale and bottlenose dolphins - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today the sea was a little bit rough, so we had tours only during the morning, fortunately the day…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/false-killer-whale-and-bottlenose\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-06-25T15:19:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:30:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0154.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"133\" \/>\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\/false-killer-whale-and-bottlenose\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0154.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0154.jpg\",\"width\":200,\"height\":133},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/false-killer-whale-and-bottlenose\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/false-killer-whale-and-bottlenose\/\",\"name\":\"False killer whale and bottlenose dolphins - 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