The pointed head and long, slender body rise to the sky like a rocket before the animal lands heavily on its side. \u201cIn twenty years, I have never seen that!\u201d, exclaims a whale-watching cruise captain. A fin whale performing a full breach. While minke whales and humpbacks are reputed for their prowess on the water surface, fin whales are known to show only their powerful spouts, their long, smooth back and their dorsal fin. On August 5, off the coast of Les Bergeronnes, a fin whale has proven that this species, too, can propel itself to the surface and breach. In 2016 as well, a breaching fin whale was observed in the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park area. To successfully perform such a feat, the fin whale probably needs to fully leverage the strength of its tail to overcome water resistance and rise vertically above the surface at full throttle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The pointed head and long, slender body rise to the sky like a rocket before the animal lands heavily on its side. \u201cIn twenty years, I have never seen that!\u201d, exclaims a whale-watching cruise captain. A fin whale performing a full breach. While minke whales and humpbacks are reputed for their prowess on the water […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observation-of-the-week"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n