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Super-Groups of Humpback Whales & Bubble-net Feeding June 6, 2021
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This is the same whale we posted a fluke shot of y

This is the same whale we posted a fluke shot of yesterday. Today it showed its head! 💙☀️

How pretty is this #HumpbackWhale tail with all th

How pretty is this #HumpbackWhale tail with all the speckles? 💙 If you look closely you can see a very distinct target-like marking on the left fluke. Thanks to this marking, this whale is very easy to identify. The first photo was taken last week and we’ve seen the same whale again yesterday. This is very interesting, because it gives evidence that some of the whales also stay in Tasmanian waters on their migration north for a little while and don’t necessarily head straight up to their breeding grounds up north. We’re also super excited that we matched it to a photo taken by @madsbrasier in November last year during the southern migration (see second photo). It’s amazing to see how much the speckles have darkened within half a year! If you’d like to contribute to our #citizenscience project, send your fluke images to either us @wildoceantasmania or to @madsbrasier ! 🙏

If you live on this planet, you can thank the Ocea

If you live on this planet, you can thank the Ocean for it! 💙 Cooperation, not competition, is the very basis of existing life systems and of future survival.
..Unless we adopt sophisticated indigenous belief systems and learn respect for all life, then we loose our own.. #worldoceansday
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Drone footage of several Humpback Whales feeding together as part of a supergroup in October 2020 in Tasmania.

Music by MaxKoMusic, Pure Epicness (we thought that was fitting 😅)

We’ve been hanging onto this footage for over ha

We’ve been hanging onto this footage for over half a year now. :) The last Humpback Whale migration south, between September and November 2020, has really been something special. Not only in Tasmania, but all along the south-east coast of Australia!

We’re excited that we had the opportunity to contribute photographic evidence of the formation of ‘super-groups’ of Humpback Whales as well as ‘bubble-net feeding’ behaviour here in Tasmania to a scientific paper that got published two days ago. The paper by Vanessa Pirotta, Kylie Owen, David Donnelly, Madeleine J. Brasier, Robert Harcourt is titled: ‘First evidence of bubble-net feeding and the formation of ‘super-groups’ by the east Australian population of Humpback Whales during their southward migration.’

Read more about it on our new Blog post, written in collaboration with @madsbrasier who is one of the co-authors of the paper (link in bio). #wildoceantasmania

@drvanessapirotta

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Music by Boy & Bear, Percy Warner Park

Big THANKS to the amazing crew we had onboard toda

Big THANKS to the amazing crew we had onboard today who braved the cold temperatures, jumped in the water and got rewarded with some incredible bait ball action! And our ‘resident’ Humpback Whale showed up as well. 💙 #wildoceantasmania

Are you going to take part in the #ORRCA Whale cen

Are you going to take part in the #ORRCA Whale census day this year? Download the marine mammal log sheet from the ORRCA website (www.orrca.org.au), pick your favourite whale watching location and ask some friends to join you on the 27th June. 🐳💙

How cute are those little teef?? 💙 A 5-months o

How cute are those little teef?? 💙 A 5-months old seal pup in action... They still have so much to learn and are still being nursed by their mums when they get back from their 1-20 day foraging trips. The little pups are only just big enough to practice swimming in the rock pools and have to wait patiently for their mums to return. They usually spend about 1-2 days to suckle their pup before going on the next trip out to sea in search for food. @underwateraustralasia

Flukes up if you’re happy! 🙌💙 ————

Flukes up if you’re happy! 🙌💙
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Do you think the northern migration is going to be as epic as the migration south last year? Since we’ve set up the Tasmanian Fluke Project last year in collaboration with Dr. Maddie Brasier @madsbrasier , we’ve recorded 129 ‘new’ flukes, this means whales that aren’t known to the data base yet. The patterns on the underside of the Humpback Whales tails (flukes) are as unique as our fingerprints. By photographing their flukes and comparing the photos to other whale flukes in the data base, we can find out a lot about the movements of individual whales. One Humpback Whale has been on this stretch of coast now for 43 days! If you are planning on going whale watching this season, be a part of this #citizenscience project and try to capture a photo of the flukes. You can email your photos to us or to @madsbrasier . 🙏

Bait ball dynamics - Every link in the natural env

Bait ball dynamics - Every link in the natural environment has its unique purpose. 💙

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