{"id":251,"date":"2019-04-09T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/09\/false-killer-whales-today-during-our\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:39:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:39:09","slug":"false-killer-whales-today-during-our","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/false-killer-whales-today-during-our\/","title":{"rendered":"False killer whales today during our whale watching trip!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Amazing encounter off the coast of S\u00e3o Miguel island!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">This morning, we went out in the ocean without knowing for certain what we would find and we had an amazing encounter (or many encounters!) in the same area. The animals gave us a moment that could be in a nature documentary.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">First, we found <a href=\"https:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bottlenose dolphins<\/a>, one of our resident species here in the Azores and then, while the biologists were talking about this species, suddenly showed up some <a href=\"https:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/false-orcafalse-killer-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">false killer whales<\/a>!&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_0245-1024x639.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"998\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_0245-1024x639.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_0266-1024x653.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">A bit later, showed up a third species we spotted in this area: the <a href=\"https:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/common-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">common dolphins<\/a>,&nbsp; another one of our residents.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_0623-1024x605.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"945\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"378\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_0623-1024x605.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">So, we had three species of cetaceans&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">in the exact same area<\/span><span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">!&nbsp; It smelt like fish, probably tuna, so maybe the animals were simply having lunch there! We could say that we saw a true feeding festival \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_0679-1024x719.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1125\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"448\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_0679-1024x719.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_0689-1024x587.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"918\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSC_0689-1024x587.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazing encounter off the coast of S\u00e3o Miguel island! 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