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\nYesterday afternoon we encountered a female sperm whale<\/a> we call “Marble”, so we expected the rest of her family to be nearby because female sperm whales travel in social family groups called units. Our suspicions were confirmed this morning as we found Marble’s family off the coast of Ponta Delgada. In total we encountered 5 whales from the group, of which we could identify 4 different individuals who we call “Orca”, “Rainbow”, “Left tip” and finally “Bear paw” who was a bit further offshore from the others. The oldest photographs we have of members from this group date back to 2003, so we have been seeing them for at least 13 years off S\u00e3o Miguel island! <\/div>\n
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\nBefore we went out to see the sperm whales we also encountered a nice group of our resident common dolphins<\/a> followed by a playful group of Atlantic spotted dolphins<\/a> that were leaping out of the waves and coming to play around our boats. From one of our smaller boats a group of bottlenose dolphins<\/a> was also encountered, giving us a grand total of 4 different species today!<\/div>\n
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\nThe sperm whale we call “Orca” going on a deep dive<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nA young sperm whale we call “Rainbow”<\/i><\/div>\n

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\n“Bear paw” going on a deep dive<\/i><\/div>\n

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

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\nDolphin watching from aboard our catamaran<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday afternoon we encountered a female sperm whale we call “Marble”, so we expected the rest of her…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,3,10,4,57,242],"yoast_head":"\nMarble's family - 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\/marbles-family\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marble's family - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yesterday afternoon we encountered a female sperm whale we call “Marble”, so we expected the rest of her…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/marbles-family\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-10-12T15:16:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:35:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DSC_0388-CC3B3pia.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"426\" \/>\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\/marbles-family\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DSC_0388-CC3B3pia.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DSC_0388-CC3B3pia.png\",\"width\":640,\"height\":426},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/marbles-family\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/marbles-family\/\",\"name\":\"Marble's family - 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