A study found that pilot whales in the Strait of Gibraltar have trouble communicating with each other due to loud ship noise. These whales use vocal sounds to stay together while traveling and finding food. The noise from ships makes it harder for them to talk, which could affect how they find each other and stay safe.
https://backend.travelbinger.com/ship-noise-in-strait-of-gibraltar-means-pilot-whales-cant-hear-each-other/ #pilotwhales #whales
13-Nov-2025
Mystery of how much squid short-finned pilot #whales eat resolved
There’s plenty more #squid in the sea for Hawaiian short-finned #pilotWhales
How much food an animal needs to consume on a daily basis is a crucial part of the jigsaw of life and now an international team of researchers reveal in Journal of Experimental Biology that individual short-finned pilot whales off Hawai’i consume between 82 and 202 squid per day, adding up to 88,000 tonnes of squid per year for the Hawaiian population, which, fortunately, is a drop in the ocean for the local squid population.
Here is the full list of hunts that we are aware of in the #FaroeIslands this summer to date (the figures are estimates as official figures are not issued yet), noting that #PilotWhales are also a #dolphin species:
June 12, 2025, #Leynar – over 246 #whales (may be as high as 296)
July 5, 2025 – 49 pilot whales killed in #Bø
July 20, 2025 – 116 pilot whales killed in #Tjørnuvík
Aug. 25, 2025 – 50 Atlantic white-sided dolphins, #Skálafjørður
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🚨This is happening right now in #Klaksvík. 🚨
Why do the #Faroese feel the need to interfere with every single #pod of #PilotWhales that pass by, even when their freezers are already full, according to their own reports? It seems like they have an obsession with #dolphins. No other country monitors and tags every pod like this—it’s unnecessary.
While we support scientific research and the pursuit of knowledge, we cannot endorse this #brutal and invasive method of handling pilot whales.
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Clues for the #evolution of #menopause in whales — and humans?
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/22/1198909539/menopause-humans-whales-evolution
The evolution of menopause in #ToothedWhales https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07159-9
"menopause is something of an evolutionary blip. We are one of the few #animals to experience it... There are five species of toothed #whales that undergo menopause — short-finned #PilotWhales, #FalseKillerWhales, #KillerWhales, #narwhals and #belugas — making it the type of animal that is known to have evolved menopause most frequently."
Yesterday during the boat #hedgewatch we saw this beautiful #pilotwhales😻 They are we learned yesterday #dolphins🙀😹. Anyway we were so happy to see this great animals 😻
They squeaked as they died: I tried to help those baby #pilotwhales – but nothing could be done.
"It was the little cries of the dying young ones that hit me hardest.
The sound is hard to describe – like a high-pitched squeak, a forlorn whistle amid the noise of breaking waves."
#WhaleRescue
Volunteers are working frantically on a second day to save dozens of #pilotwhales that have stranded themselves on a beach in #WesternAustralia, but more than 50 have already died #wildlife #whales
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