Whales - Blog Posts
Can you imagine these two working together
I think I just discovered a new ship
Milesider
So not that any of you would really sign this but it'd be really helpful if you did, anywho driftnets are a big no no they're illegal in California like state waters but people are finding loop holes in international waters. These nets are long and catch and kill anything in it's path like sharks (my personal favorite) but also whales, seals, dolphins, etc. So it'd be really helpful if you signed but it's your freewill to choose whether you want to or not
I wasn't too happy with my last whale painting so I painted a new one in SAI instead of Procreate. (SAI will always be my fav art program) I want to show the stars glowing in the stomach more clearlyđ SAI doesn't have a timelapse feature so I did a work around but the resolution is kinda low. Does anyone know a better way? The high res hours long recordings will be DMed on my Patreon on Nov5
Young-woo's tastefully assembled room provided the very first blueprint.
âMutants. Flesh of our flesh, blood of our blood, yet possessing powers and abilities which set them apart from â some might say above â humanity."  http://www.thebentbullet.com/
Marvel Entertainment and X-Men Films take on the JFK assassination with a viral meme mutant variant, appropriating 50 years of American corruption as another super-fly in their radioactive corporate entertainment ointment. Substitute Magneto for George Herbert Walker Bush, the CIA for the Mutant Superiors, and advanced covert weaponry for bent bullets, and you apprach what actually has unfolded as USA Global War Inc. But that's another story...
Mutant Makeup Turns Models in to Classic Artworks
Ray Bradbury began writing every day at age 12, after a carnival magician called Mr. Electrico tapped him w/his sword and said "Live Forever!"
Midnight Juggernauts: Systematic on Nowness.com Ray Bradbury wrote his novel Fahrenheit 451 at UCLA Library on typewriters he rented for 20Âą per hour. Took him 9 days and $9.80 in change.
Shawn Heinrichs est passionnĂ© de photographie mais aussi de plongĂ©e. Ce dernier a dĂ©cidĂ© donc de collaborer avec la mannequin et plongeuse « Hannah Fraser » pour cette superbe sĂ©rie dâimages rĂ©alisĂ©e dans lâocĂ©an Pacifique en prĂ©sence de baleines. Un rendu exceptionnel Ă dĂ©couvrir dans la suite de lâarticle.   Underwater Superhumans and Whales http://www.livescience.com/41475-wow-the-most-amazing-images-in-science-this-week
The #GhostDeer is completely white due to a lack of melanin http://to.pbs.org/11OGkhy @PBS âThe Private Life of DeerâÂ
Whaaaaaales.......
i'm bored
J63 is the first southern resident calf born in 2025 and likely the first calf of J40 âSuttlesâ!
unfortunately, southern resident calves have around a 50% mortality rate within their first year of life. a lot of this seems to be from a lack of food availability due to overfishing and disturbances from boats.
right now, under the trump administration, FWS and NOAA are trying to change the definition of âharmâ in the endangered species act in a way that would weaken environmental protections. this will severely impact the already endangered and struggling southern resident population. calves like J63 will have even lower chance of survival if this proposed rule goes through. public comments to oppose this decision are open until may 19th.
more information + suggested talking points for public comments here
submit a public comment here
source: center for whale research
J62!!!
source: center for whale research
Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut, also known as âTokitaeâ or âLolitaâ, was a Southern Resident killer whale likely from L-pod. She was born around the mid-1960s. Many suspect her mother is L25 âOcean Sunâ, but there has never been confirmation.
In August 1970, Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut was one of around 80 killer whales rounded up for capture in Penn Cove, Washington. Based on her size, she was between 2-7 years old at the time. In the capture, led by Ted Griffin and Don Golsberry, 5 whales drowned and 7 whales, including Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut, were taken away.
Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut was purchased by a veterinarian at Miami Seaquarium named Jesse White for $20,000. She was transported to Miami Seaquarium in September 1970. White named her âTokitaeâ, a Coast Salish word that roughly translates to ânice dayâ or âpretty coloursâ in English.
She was originally kept separately from the other orca, a male Southern Resident called Hugo. Hugo had been captured 2 years prior from Vaughn Bay, Washington.
Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut and Hugo would often talk to each other between tanks, Southern Residents have a unique language which includes specific dialects within their pods, meaning that the two of them were able to communicate in ways that they could not with any other population. Miami Seaquarium eventually placed them together in a single 80-by-35 ft tank. The they mated often, but never had any living calves. Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut was given the stage name âLolitaâ.
Hugo experienced severe stress due to his situation. In March 1980, he died after ramming his head into the wall of the tank.
Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut was housed with other cetaceans, but remained the only orca at the aquarium for the rest of her life. Despite her isolation, she held on to her home. She was heard multiple times throughout her decades in captivity singing a song that is only heard within L-pod.
In 2015, NOAA removed the exclusion of captive whales from the Endangered Species Act and included Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut in the listing of Southern Residents. NOAA stated there was a âstrong caseâ that she was a Southern Resident after analysing her mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA. However, because she was captured 2 years before the Marine Mammal Protection Act, Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut was considered âpre-Actâ, meaning she did not qualify under it.
The Lummi Nation never stopped fighting for Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut to be brought home. They consider her a relative. In July 2019, two Lummi women, Squil-le-he-le and Tah-mahs, invoked the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) in an attempt to bring Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut home. NAGPRA gave them legal grounds to sue Miami Seaquarium if they refused to return Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut to the Salish Sea.
In August 2019, the Lummi gave her the name âSk'aliCh'elh-tenautâ, which roughly translates to âmember of SkâaliChâelhâ in English. SkâaliChâelh being a family of orcas in the Salish sea.
Squil-le-he-le visited Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut in Miami and performed healing songs for her. Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut was very receptive to this. Squil-le-he-le was quoted saying âShe was singing with me. She was vocalizing with me,â in an interview with The Planet.
In March 2023, the Miami Seaquarium (now owned by The Dolphin Company) partnered with Friends of Toki and began the process of transferring Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut to a sea pen in her home waters.
This decision was controversial given Sk'aliCh'elh-tenautâs age (around her late 50s) and her chronic health conditions. She hadnât been transported anywhere in over 50 years, causing concern for the stress that transport to Washington could cause her. There were also concerns that she might not be able to survive the re-exposure to the bacteria in the ocean after living in a tank of clorinated water for so long, or that she could possibly expose the wild Southern Residents to the infections she developed in captivity.
Others, especially the Lummi, argued that she deserved to live the remainder of her life in her home waters, which she clearly remembered.
In August 2023, the Miami Seaquarium announced that Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut had passed away. Her cause of death was attributed to multiple chronic health conditions. On the day of her death, over 3000 miles away, members of all 3 Southern Resident pods (J,K, and L) were gathered together in what is known as a âsuperpodâ. Gatherings of multiple Southern Resident pods have become more rare in recent years.
The Lummi were not consulted before the autopsy was performed.
Finally, in September 2023 her ashes were returned home and there were multiple ceremonies laying her to rest.
No Southern Resident had been seen in Penn Cove since the captures in the 1970s, but in November 2024, L-pod returned. Among them was Ocean Sun.
Footage: Kat Martin, ScubaFilmFactory, Miami Herald, KING 5 Seattle, AnaCarlaNJ, H2Omammals, DaddysJournie, KING 5 Seattle
Audio: Susannah Joffe, sacredsea.org
âNever give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.â â Earl Nightingale
For years now, this wild grey whale has come to this boat captain to have its lice removed at the calving lagoon of Ojo de Liebre, Baja California, Mexico.
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Omg I recognized this right away and then sat here thinking, but no, it canât be, how likely is it that I would encounter a random picture from this particular museum? But it IS.
I used to work there! Thereâs an upper floor to the right of the whale skeleton and I would walk by it on my way to one of the labs in the morning!
The setting is: Below the Whale Skeleton
beluga whales are like so cool
i HATE zoos and aquariums!!! literal kidnapping
theyâre such social animals too :(((
parents shocked when the kidnapped child claws at the bars of its cage (when belugas open their mouths as a show of aggression towards people at the kidnapping sanctuaries ) đ±
narlugas.. idk how to feel abt them? I guess itâs fine? Okay yeah itâs prob okay itâs not like thereâs a power dynamic (at least i dont think soâŠ?)
i like just got into beluga whales but i really want to know more about how female whales live in the wild
itâs 2 am on a school night.
Stop everything. We literally have whale language. We just discovered definitive whale language. We can't translate it (yet) but we literally deciphered that whale calls are not random, and they're not simple. They follow linguistic patterns just like us. They have names for each other.
We're on the brink of ACTUALLY understanding what an animal is talking about, beyond basic warning cries. My childhood dream of being able to talk to animals is like, 1 step away from happening.
And omg if we ever do get to talk to whales, my adhd ass has a MILLION questions. Do they see/use the stars and moon to navigate? Do they have religion? Can they understand other whale species, or is it like trying to talk to a chimp? Do they like people-watching while we're on our boats whale-watching? Do they teach their offspring the way humans and apes do? What's the most annoying animal in the sea?
I want to tell them about us and our relationship to whales. How we have movies about them. We see their jaws in museums and marvel at how big they are. We try to save them when they wash up on the beach. How we made such a big push to outlaw whale hunting and bring back the whale population. How much I hated the novel Moby Dick.
I wonder if they would have questions for us? They can't really fathom the land the way we can understand the ocean. They might be able to see shorelines, maybe some islands. But think of how much land stuff a whale has never seen. They've never seen a cat, or a desert. I wonder if they would know that there must be more land, or assume that it's all just concentrated around the shore.
I imagine they would be curious about our boats, and why we can't swim very well. If they have culture, which I strongly believe they and most intelligent animals do, they might even remember stories passed down about whale hunting. They might ask why we suck at singing. Why do our fins look weird? How would we explain walking to a sea creature?
Of course, that is the one wrinkle - in all linguistic research and animal communication research, we haven't yet discovered a species that also asks questions the way we do. Apes don't seem to care about where or why things happen. They just make the tools and move on. At this point we have no reason to believe that a whale would need or want to ask questions. They have the ocean, they have their food, and they don't even make tools the way we do.
But still... can you imagine really having a conversation with a whale? How amazing and humbling it would be.
Humpback whales breaching: gorgeous, majestic, graceful, embodies all the strength and beauty of the ocean
Minke whales breaching: I will launch myself out of this ocean like a f***ing surface-to-air missile to seek and destroy my enemies
