{"id":88,"date":"2019-08-27T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/27\/spectacular-sperm-whale-breach-plus-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:40:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:40:01","slug":"spectacular-sperm-whale-breach-plus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/spectacular-sperm-whale-breach-plus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular sperm whale breach, plus 2 species of dolphins today!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nWhen we go to the sea we have to be prepared for all scenarios. We go out looking for animals in their natural habitat that are neither trained nor fed … so everything is possible. Today was the proof of that.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nIn the morning we started with a very small group of <\/span><\/span>common dolphins<\/a><\/span> but some meters away from the area it was the rest of the group of common dolphins. We continued to the east and a gigantic group of Atlantic spotted dolphins showed up. There must have been more than 400 dolphins in the group! Can you imagine looking all around and only see dolphins all around!? The group was very active, very curious and very playful and with such good visibility conditions, it was amazing seeing them around the boat. <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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\nOur lookouts weren’t seeing bigger animals so we used our hydrophone and our next species was the most famous here in the Azores, the largest predator on Earth, the legendary Moby Dick, you know who we are referring to… <\/span><\/span>sperm whale<\/span><\/span><\/a>! <\/span><\/span>
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\nIt was a group of females a little bit spread out in an area, and one of them was a very known sperm whale called Tonga! We also got to see a very small baby! We started with a young male, then a female, a baby and finally a very chubby female … We think she might be pregnant! When she dived, we could see that she was a female we know well: Tonga!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nWe also took our time and collected some garbage we saw in the sea. Every little helps!<\/span><\/div>\n
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Taking plastic out from the ocean \ud83d\ude42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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\nIn the afternoon we went to the same area then the morning and saw several sperm whales again. We started with two females who did a dive at the same time, we saw the little baby again and when we were not expecting … wow! A sperm whale breached several times and showed its tail! It was amazing!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Sperm whale pooping during a breach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\nAfter we found a very small group of <\/span><\/span>Atlantic spotted dolphins<\/a><\/span><\/span> but they were not very curious.<\/span><\/span>
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\nThen we decided to see one more sperm whale… It was our sumo wrestler!<\/span><\/span>
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