I’ve been following along a few people who have seen whales from the beach in Pacifica. Looking to see some this weekend (just from the shore). Does anyone have some good suggestions for which Bay Area beaches might be good for that?

Y'all I have this sky assessment on ocean management and I need people to do a survey I made so we can see the different knowledge people have on a certain ocean issue. it's due this Wednesday. Please be serious with it as its for school!

https://forms.gle/GDnTi5NHhbdRjbbw8

I've been teasing this manuscript on my twitter account for years. I got it posted as a preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.05.610699v1

And two blog articles on the morphometry and length frequencies for sperm whales.

https://callmejoe3.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/examining-the-morphometry-of-the-sperm-whale/

https://callmejoe3.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/analyzing-the-length-distributions-of-sperm-whales/

I hope this kind of thing is allowed. I’m in California for the first time and dying to see a whale. Is it possible?

Been reading up on 52Blue, aka the Loneliest Whale in the World. If you don’t know there’s a whale somewhere in the Pacific Ocean that emits a 52hz frequency call, which is well outside a whales range of hearing. For this reason no other whales will ever be able to hear its call, hence his name.

I’m curious, how would 52Blue react if you broadcast a 52 hz freq sound underwate? It’s never heard anything on that frequency.

Excited? Scared? Curious? Sad? Would it be cruel to do this?

I have, in recent years, been an advocate for cetaceans gaining legal personhood, which yes, I know it sounds ludicrous, and I know some here may dismiss it as nonsense. At the same time however, it’s gained some support in the Pacific , yet in order to make my dream a reality; I am hoping that perhaps one day, all whale and dolphin hunting of all forms will come to a permanent close.

I just want to put it out there that I get that whaling has been a human tradition to some since the 4th millennium BC, and still is in many remote parts of the world, but does that mean it has to go on forever? I ask this as an honest question. Is there really no other way? I sincerely believe that there are alternative food sources in this day and age to make it so that whaling will stop. But my ultimate question to everybody here is, do you think all whaling can one day come to a permanent stop? Even if it’s not in our lifetime? Let me know your honest legitimate thoughts.

I honestly don’t know if I can live with whales being a ‘resource’ for the remainder of human existence. But that’s just me. If you think I should give up on the concept of ‘cetaceans rights’ and that it’s a concept that could never possibly happen, be honest with me.

Watching a small pod of whales in Depoe Bay. It was my first time seeing that backs & tails!! 😃 I love it here, y'all!

A couple of YouTubers posted footage of their tour guide being tossed into the air by a whale during a swimming with whales tour. You can read about it in this Yahoo News article.

To me, it is disappointing to see that the individuals involved in this incident are celebrating what should be a cautionary moment. We should be advocating for responsible and respectful wildlife interactions, particularly when it comes to large, wild animals like humpback whales.

I'm working on a project and like the title says I'm tryna figure out where exactly at Seaworld the Gray Whale known as JJ was held in, like geography wise. multiple sources tell me she was in one of the orca tanks but never specify which one. obviously she wasn't housed WITH the orcas so where was she kept in relation to them. Now I have a hunch She might've been kept in the far right tank (which is "Pool F" I think) purely because of the rocks seen in some of the images but I'm not entirely sure as the rocks arent in most images of that pool so does anyone know

https://preview.redd.it/sh0wzo4u0tld1.png?width=1120&format=png&auto=webp&s=a1e44ad135e64b6002faf3afb8a68295ee6fa2e9

for example if you download this and view the spectrogram the harmonics are 10x higher then in the video's figure. Wikipedia claims 17-50hz but all the whale call examples in the article are like 10x higher then that.

Han

For background- one of the top politicians in the US found a deceased beached whale, and since he like bones and things he harvested the whales head. This was shared by his kids. I'll leave out the gross details but it's in the article.

Anyway just for fun, let's play "guess the whale" before it gets released what species it is:

1. Larger toothed whale like orca, pilot whale, something like that
2. Humpback or rorqual (minke, fin, blue etc)
3. Bowhead or Right
4. Beaked whale

My money is on pilot whale, what do you think? This was 1994 so what he did was VERY illegal, but he'll probably get away with a slap on the wrist on account of being a Kennedy.

I think 3 and 4 are not going to be it on account of them being so scarce and beaked whales rarely come close to shore and Bowheads/Rights didn't go that far South.

They specified whale not dolphin or porpoise but I'm putting in the large dolphins because they probably aren't being that fancy, but I'm leaving out the "typical" dolphins and porposiesiesies

Article:
Environmental group calls for investigation into dead whale incident involving RFK Jr.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/27/politics/environmental-group-calls-for-investigation-rfk-jr-dead-whale/index.html

(I wanted to do this as a poll but that option is disabled here)