approaching for an attempt to cut or loosen the rope would be challenging and dangerous – perhaps impossible if the whale is breaching or actively feeding. Alisa Schulman-Janiger, a researcher ...

Divers in Moorea, French Polynesia, had a close encounter with a whale shortly after it was seen breaching, footage published ...

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Which may explain why more captive whales have curved fins. In captivity, whales breach the surface more often, exposing their fins to the warmer air. It doesn't take long for this process to happen.

A man in the US has caught the moment three whales breached in almost perfect synchronisation off the coast of Massachusetts. Robert Addie and his family were on holiday in Cape Cod when they ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A video of a whale "breaching" out of the floor of a gymnasium recently went viral. Many believed it to be a 7D hologram, but it's the work of super secretive tech ...

But other behaviors are better understood by whale researchers, such as breaching. And breaching, like many other whale behaviors, has to be taught to young whales by their moms. In this video ...

Many guests aboard this tour see whales breach or spyhop, an action where whales pop their heads completely out of the water. There’s a reason there are so many different whales in and amongst ...

Divers in Moorea, French Polynesia, had a close encounter with a whale shortly after it was seen breaching, footage published to Instagram shows. This footage was captured by diver Bella Massey ...