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Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus Globicephala. The two extant species are the long-finned pilot whale ( G. melas) and the short-finned pilot whale ( G. macrorhynchus ). The two are not readily distinguishable at sea, and analysis of the skulls is the best way to distinguish between the species.
Globicephalus macrorhynchus. The short-finned pilot whale ( Globicephala macrorhynchus) is one of the two species of cetaceans in the genus Globicephala, which it shares with the long-finned pilot whale ( G. melas ). It is part of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae). It has a worldwide distribution with a global population of about 700,000 ...
The dorsal fin is thick and falcate in nature, and is located about a third of the way down the length of the animal. The common name of this species is a reference to the pilot whale's long, sickle-shaped pectoral flippers that are 18 to 27 percent of its total body length. Being a toothed whale, pilot whales have a single blowhole.
Whaling in the Faroe Islands, or grindadráp (from the Faroese terms grindhvalur, meaning pilot whale, and dráp, meaning killing), is a type of drive hunting that involves herding various species of whales and dolphins, but primarily pilot whales, into shallow bays to be beached, killed, and butchered. Each year, an average of around 700 long ...
Volunteers worked frantically on a second day Wednesday to save dozens of pilot whales that have stranded themselves on a beach in Western Australia, but more than 50 have already died. Nearly 100 ...
The false killer whale ( Pseudorca crassidens) is a species of oceanic dolphin that is the only extant representative of the genus Pseudorca. It is found in oceans worldwide but mainly in tropical regions. It was first described in 1846 as a species of porpoise based on a skull, which was revised when the first carcasses were observed in 1861.
Cetacean stranding. A mass stranding of pilot whales on the shore of Cape Cod, 1902. Cetacean stranding, commonly known as beaching, is a phenomenon in which whales and dolphins strand themselves on land, usually on a beach. Beached whales often die due to dehydration, collapsing under their own weight, or drowning when high tide covers the ...
July 11, 2024 at 9:27 PM. A pod of 77 pilot whales has died after washing ashore on a beach in Orkney in what could be the biggest mass stranding for decades. The British Divers Marine Life Rescue ...