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A baby Bottlenose Dolphin at Cape Hauy 💙 A baby Bottlenose Dolphin at Cape Hauy 💙
This young whale is still in the area and appears This young whale is still in the area and appears to be resting on the surface a lot. Please if you are planning on boating along this coastline in the coming days or on the weekend, keep an eye out for him and give him some space. :)
We got a few last seats available for Sunday’s t We got a few last seats available for Sunday’s tours and the weather is looking beautiful! ☀️ DM us to book! :)
We’ve spotted this #HumpbackWhale 3 times in the We’ve spotted this #HumpbackWhale 3 times in the last week. 💙 It’s certainly not in a hurry to head north. ———————————————————— We can’t wait for the rest of the Whales to migrate past this coastline to hopefully get some more ID shots for the #TasmanianFlukeProject . Dr. Maddie Brasier @madsbrasier has been in charge of uploading the fluke images to the database. She’s confirmed that we identified 129 new flukes in 2020 which greatly exceeded our expectations. Fingers crossed for another epic whale season! 🐋 ———————————————————— You can be a part of this #citizenscience project, too. If you get a photo of the underside of a Humpback Whale’s tail this season, please send your images with the exact location and time either to us @wildoceantasmania or to @madsbrasier . 💙🙏
The Totempole at #CapeHauy ☀️ ————— The Totempole at #CapeHauy ☀️ ——————————————————- What are your plans for the weekend?
On April 1st, we had the privilege to spend some t On April 1st, we had the privilege to spend some time with two female Killer Whales, one of which had a tiny calf by her side. The mother is known to the Eastern Australian Killer Whale Database as ‘EA_0004’ or ‘Square notch 1’ due to the square notch in the back of her dorsal fin. We had the feeling that her baby was very young, as it still had a yellow staining and visible fetal folds from being curled up in its mothers womb. After checking our ID photos @killerwhalesaustralia confirmed that the little calf was only days old when we sighted the pod. This is really exciting, because it means that it was likely born in Tasmanian waters. It is the first recorded sighting of such a small calf here on this coastline and therefore very important information for the researchers. ———————————————————- If you are interested, you can read more about the Orcas and the other special wildlife sightings we’ve had over Easter on our blog post (link in bio).
This was our special Easter gift.. a Southern Elep This was our special Easter gift.. a Southern Elephant Seal. 💙 ———————————————————- Southern Elephant Seals once bred in Tasmania on King Island but were wiped out by the sealing industry. Each year in Tasmania an average of eight Elephant Seals are reported. The age of the animals visiting Tasmania’s shores varies from yearling animals (one year old) to animals of 16 or more years of age. The closest breeding area of Elephant Seals is Macquarie Island. Southern Elephant Seals are the deepest diving seal in the world. Females have been recorded diving as deep as 1600m with dive durations of up to two hours.
We captured the first Humpback Whale fluke of the We captured the first Humpback Whale fluke of the Northern migration. 🙌💙 Last year, we joined forces with our marine biologist friend @madsbrasier from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at UTAS and we started the Tasmanian Fluke Project. This project is all about investigating the importance of Tasmania to the East Australian Humpback Whales by collecting ‘fluke’ images. The fluke is the underside of the whale’s tail that is raised above the water as the whale dives, tail slaps or throws the peduncle. Each fluke is unique in its markings, scars, and trailing edge which means they can be used to identify individual whales, a bit like our fingerprints. Fluke identification is a non-invasive scientific method that has been the basis of whale research since the 1970s. By matching our Tasmanian flukes, we can start to understand how long individual whales are spending in Tasmanian waters and if individual whales are returning to Tasmania each year. ————————————————————If you’d like to be a part of this citizen science project, you can contribute by sending any images of Humpback Whale flukes - ideally with the exact location and time and date - either to Dr. Maddie Brasier @madsbrasier or to us @wildoceantasmania
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  1. Humpback Whales

    October 10, 2016 Susie

  2. Swimming with Seals

    July 24, 2014 Susie
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