#pilot whale

[marine-gifs]

Pilot whales socialising. Filmed in the Atlantic Ocean. From Blue Planet - Open Ocean (2001).

[all-mammal-creechur]

Short-finned Pilot Whale Globicephala macrorhynchus

It has a worldwide distribution with a global population of about 700,000, and there may be 3 or 4 distinct populations—two in the Pacific and one in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Its range is moving northward due to global warming.

The short-finned pilot whale has been reported as being highly playful and social. It typically travels in pods of 10–30 members, usually family, but has been observed moving in groups of several hundred. Like killer whales, it has a matrilineal social hierarchy with an elder female at the head.

image by Cayambe

[artofsoul1999]

I haven't done enough for Dolphin Awareness Month, so here's a painting of a short-finned pilot whale.

[octyxs]

Black and white cetaceans

don’t ask how I got the print so clean I didn’t it looked bad so I just watered down the ink and painted over til it looked good shhhhh

[nemfrog]

Pilot Whales

Zoologica : scientific contributions of the New York Zoological Society. v.47. 1962.

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[diblmetta]

Buncha Whistle Wails

[somethingwol]

Turned friend into a pilot whale mermaid !

[hydrias]

pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins! two rare visitors to the area at once; what are the odds??