California

Thar she blows

Thar she goes

Tandem

Lunge feeding

Barnacled

Galápagos 2010

Darwin boning up on cetaceans

Mexico

Baja baileen
Humped back

Baja backbone
Whale vertebrae

The biggest and the smallest

Krill

Whale chow

Amphipod

ET foam home

License to krill

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

Pigeon Point, California

Spouting

April 13, 2014

Madagascar

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Masoala
July 23, 2013

Antarctica

Pod of fins

Fin whales
Balaenoptera physalus
Antarctic Peninsula
December, 2013

Humpback

Humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Antarctic Peninsula
December, 2013

This sighting was a fluke

Humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Antarctic Peninsula
December, 2013

Humpback and Plancius

Useful island
Antarctic Peninsula
December 24, 2013

Killer whales

Killer

Killer whale, (Orcinus orca)
Antarctic Peninsula
December, 2013

Killers at sunset

Killer whale, (Orcinus orca)
Antarctic Peninsula
December, 2013

Killer whale

Killer whale, (Orcinus orca)
Miami Seaquarium
May 9, 2014

Whale bones on ice

Antarctic Peninsula
December, 2013

Blue whale grounded

Lawrence Hall of Science
May 31, 2014

Blue whale eye

Lawrence Hall of Science
May 31, 2014

Also see

Albatross

Marine Mammals

Otariids: sea lions and fur seals

Seals

Sea otters

Whales

Places

Monterey Bay, California

Antarctica

Pigeon Point

Madagascar

Other links

Wales - Ha!

Animals

Año Nuevo

Elkhorn Slough

Elephants

Mountains

Sun and Moon

modified: June 13, 2015
created: August 9, 2010
Contact: siegelr@stanford.edu
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