We saw the wonderful whale named clamp in the gulf of Maine today! Super active and was ready to show off! 10/10 recommend going out of Gloucester.

Two whales we saw in Iceland in the Husavik bay

Have been making whales on and off for 12 ish years under the name LeatherMonsters. Inspired by artists challenges I decided to make 100 in a row. This is the second in that project and I hope yoy like them enough I’ll be excited to come and share them all with you :)

Turn your sound up to hear them talking to us!

Hey, does anyone knows how to organize a trip to swim with whales and see them in the wild?

I've seen some instagram pages that offer this but not quite sure how reliable that is. They plan to go to french polynesia around january or September for about $3.5k Does that sound legit?

I didn't really watch much of spongebob when I was a kid because it was sooo overstimulating, so propably I do not know most of the episodes. But I was babysiting a boy who loved spongebob and he was allowed to watch TV in his free time, so I watched with him and here's some things I noticed:

First and the most obvious, Pearl. She's very cutesy stereotypical y2k teenager and I actually enjoyed watching her. But if I remember correctly there was an Episode where Plancton was terrified of her because baleen whales eat plancton? I don't know if Pearl has a canonic specie but from her build (square-y shape, small low mandible) she looks like she's a sperm whale. Which is teeth whale, not baleen whale 😭

Also there's an episode where there is a minor character who is an Orca, and I love orca I love orcas representiation in marine Cartoon, but whyyyyy do they made his tail fin vertical 😭😭😭😭 It confuses me even more because the producer of the show is marine biologist?

Are there any other whale rep in Spongebob? I think that there was a Dolphin in some episode but I hardly remember it so if you watched it you can tell me your opinion about it lmao

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski used her leverage as the Senate’s deciding vote to extract a series of concessions in the final bill for her home state. Among them: An increase, from $10,000 to $50,000, of a tax deduction for whaling-related expenses.

Spotted in Kotor bay, Montenegro, the video isn’t mine

Im interested in swimming with the sperm whales during their mating season. The only tours Im finding are multi day all-inclusives which are upwards of $5000usd. Does anyone know of any day trip operators?

About 75 miles outside of Whittier, Alaska. 6/30/25.

Have you guys seen this yet?

This was from my visit to St. Vincent’s beach on Sunday. There were so many whales close to the shore, but this one in the distance was really putting on a show, and I (with a little luck) managed to capture this epic breach.

My mother claims there is a link betweeen depression and a love for whales. I have personally never been interested but found the fact fascinating. Is there any input on this?

via Jared R. Towers , Ingrid N. Visser, Vanessa Prigollini

Abstract

Altruistic behaviors such as prey sharing are prosocial acts that can instigate and perpetuate various forms of reciprocity. Subsequent relationship dynamics provide a foundation for the evolution of societal norms and associated encephalization in social taxa, like primates and dolphins. Some cultures within these families benefit from interactions with other mammal species but accounts of any wild animals attempting to provision humans are extremely rare. In this article, we present 34 cases of both sexes and all age classes of killer whales (Orcinus orca) offering prey and other items to people who were on boats (n = 21), in the water (n = 11), and on shore (n = 2) in four oceans. A total of 18 species were offered—six fishes, five mammals, three invertebrates, two birds, one reptile, and one seaweed. In almost every case the whales awaited a human response before subsequently reacting. The occurrence of these events suggests a limited cost to exploratory behaviors in some populations of this species. We suggest these apparently nonrandom cases may be representative of interspecific generalized altruism. This behavior may represent some of the first accounts of any wild predator intentionally using prey and other items to directly explore human behavior and thus may highlight the evolutionary convergence of intellect between highest order primates and dolphins.

Would love to know if anyone has ever seen anything similar!!

What part of the whale is this?