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Whales
Order: Cetacea
Species on page
 
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
 
Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus)
 
Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) 
 
Bryde's whale (Balaenoptera brydei) 
 
Killer whale, (Orcinus orca)
 
Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas)
 
Misc or needs ID
 
Other links within page
 
Bones
 
Krill
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
	
Whale tail
	
 
	
Humpback
 
	
Humpback
 
	
When whales wave hello
 
	
 
				
	
Close encounter
 
	
 
				
				
	
True to its name
 
	
True to its name
	  
Humpback descending
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Family: Balaenopteridae (rorquals)
	Calafia
En route from Santa Cruz Island
December 14, 2024
Canon R5
  	    	   	    	  	    	  
 	  
 	  
 
Humpback
This sighting was a fluke
Humpback and Plancius
Useful island
Antarctic Peninsula
December 24, 2013
Baja baileen
Humped back
Into the breech
      
 
 
Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus)
Pod of fins
Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus)
Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctica
December, 2013
 
Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) 
Lunge feeding
Monterey Bay
on a whale watching  
cruise with Sanctuary Cruises
August 14, 2010.  
California
Dead blue whale at Bean Hollow
 
Whale bone and Bob
 
November 6, 2010
 
 
      
 
Blue whale striations
 
November 6, 2010
 
 
      
 
Blubber
 
November 6, 2010
 
 
      
 
They called it flipper
 
November 6, 2010
 
 
      
 
Gull on whale
 
November 6, 2010
 
 
      
 
Blue whale grounded
Lawrence Hall of Science
May 31, 2014
Blue whale eye
Lawrence Hall of Science
May 31, 2014
Bryde's whale (Balaenoptera brydei)
Bryde's whale revisited
Here comes the Bryde
Killer whale, (Orcinus orca)
Killer whales
Killer
Antarctic Peninsula
December, 2013
Killers at sunset
Antarctic Peninsula
December, 2013
Killer whale
tai
Miami Seaquarium
May 9, 2014
Misc
Thar she blows
Monterey Bay
on a whale watching  
cruise with Sanctuary Cruises
August 14, 2010
California
Thar she goes
Monterey Bay
on a whale watching  
cruise with Sanctuary Cruises
August 14, 2010.  
California
Tandem
Monterey Bay
on a whale watching  
cruise with Sanctuary Cruises
August 14, 2010
California
Barnacled
Monterey Bay
on a whale watching  
cruise with Sanctuary Cruises
August 14, 2010 
California
Spouting
 
Pigeon Point
April 13, 2014
 
      
 
 
Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas)
 
Beluga
Bob's beluga encounter
Bones
Whale bones on ice
Antarctic Peninsula
December, 2013
Baja backbone
Whale vertebrae
Darwin boning up on cetaceans
Galaacute:pagos
The biggest and the smallest
Krill
ET foam home
Año Nuevo
2009
Whale chow
Amphipod
Año Nuevo
2009
License to krill
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Last modified: September 12, 2024
 
renamed: March 21, 2016 (to whale.html)
created: August 9, 2010
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