SEA BRIGHT -- A long-finned pilot whale that stranded at the beach here May 14 was euthanized by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center to prevent the animal from further suffering.

Pilot whale study reveals copycat calls to outsmart predators Date: December 3, 2020 Source: Curtin University Summary: New research has found southern Australian long-finned pilot whales are able ...

Rescuers gather information from dead long-finned pilot whales at Hamelin Bay in Australia on March 23, 2009. "Whale strandings remain a mystery. We don't exactly know why whales and dolphins do ...

Short-finned pilot whales and long-finned pilot whales are similar, and difficult to tell apart at sea. Rob Deaville of the Institute of Zoology in London, where CSIP is based, was part of the ...

New Curtin University research has found southern Australian long-finned pilot whales are able to mimic the calls of its natural predator and food rival - the killer whale, as a possible ploy to ...

Long-finned pilot whales are highly intelligent and live in strong social units. So when dealing with mass strandings, it’s important to realise the emotions and bonding between the whales are very ...

In one of the largest Beach strandings, at least 65 pilot whales have died on an island off the North Coast of Scotland in Britain. The British Drivers Marine Life Rescue said that it had altered ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. For the first time, a team of whale experts have recorded an orca caring for the offspring of another species, a long-finned pilot whale infant.

Researchers listened to 2,028 vocalizations of long-finned pilot whales off the coast of Australia, the first time sounds from the species in this region have been comprehensively described.

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A long-finned pilot whale calf has been documented swimming behind the flipper of a female orca – in “echelon”, or the mother-and-calf position – for the first time.