By St\u00e9phanie Tremblay<\/p>\n
The differences between certain species are sometimes so imperceptible that they may be mistaken for one another. Pilot whales in particular resemble each other with a few key differences.\u00a0Are the pilot whales that are occasionally observed in the St. Lawrence River the same as those found in the Caribbean?<\/p>\n
Two species of pilot whales exist: Globicephala melas<\/em> and Globicephala macrorhynchus<\/em>. They both live in similar environments, but in different parts of the globe.<\/p>\n Globicephala melas <\/em>have an anti-tropical distribution.\u00a0 The northern populations of the long-finned pilot whale are found farther north, i.e. in the waters of Greenland, Iceland, the Barents Sea or the western Mediterranean. Globicephala melas edwardii<\/em>, meanwhile, lives in the southern hemisphere, near the South Pole, and sometimes even near the Antarctic coast. This species is therefore found only in cool and temperate waters and in subpolar regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By St\u00e9phanie Tremblay The differences between certain species are sometimes so imperceptible that they may be mistaken for one another. Pilot whales in particular resemble each other with a few key differences.\u00a0Are the pilot whales that are occasionally observed in the St. Lawrence River the same as those found in the Caribbean? Two species of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":39636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[643,573],"class_list":["post-49866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whale-qa","tag-globicephale-en","tag-repartition-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n