{"id":53255,"date":"2021-02-25T13:38:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T13:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/autour-du-globe-des-baleines\/"},"modified":"2021-02-25T20:26:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:26:30","slug":"global-round-up-of-whale-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/global-round-up-of-whale-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Round-up of Whale News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whale and seal sightings are scarce these days. Over the course of the past week, we\u2019ve received reports of a big blast off Godbout, belugas near Tadoussac\u2019s Buoy K56, some fifty seals in Cap-des-Rosiers and a few others in the Mingan Archipelago. This is rather normal for February in the St. Lawrence. How about if we take advantage of the lull this week to talk about whale news elsewhere on the planet?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Blue whales in Mexico<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Video footage taken off Baja California, Mexico, shows two <a href=\"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/discover\/the-species-of-the-st-lawrence\/the-13-species\/blue-whale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blue whales<\/a> swimming at full throttle, piercing the water surface with the top of their heads, and even the eye of the individual closest to the boat. (It is recalled that in the St. Lawrence, a distance of 400 metres must be maintained from blue whales.) At the end of the video, we even see the tip of a tail. What were these two blue whales doing? With just a nine-second video and not much context to go by, it\u2019s difficult to say for sure, but it could be reproductive behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>To gain access to a female, male blue whales sometimes perform an impressive race where they swim at top speed, collide, or synchronize their moves. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/do-blue-whales-serenade-their-partners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study published in the scientific journal <em>Marine Mammal Science<\/em> <\/a>\u00a0in September 2019, scientists noted particular calls known as \u201cD calls\u201d that are associated with these races involving both males and females. If a hydrophone had been submerged underwater, perhaps we would have a better idea as to what made these two whales swim so fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whale and seal sightings are scarce these days. 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