{"id":53435,"date":"2021-04-01T14:37:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/mais-quest-ce-que-je-vois\/"},"modified":"2021-04-06T12:59:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T12:59:26","slug":"what-is-it-that-i-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/what-is-it-that-i-see\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it that I see?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the challenges of whale watching is how long it takes for but a fraction of a body to appear on the surface. Oftentimes, a whale will only show 10% of its back for just a few seconds when it surfaces to breathe. Sometimes observers are so spellbound they are left wondering what species has just passed in front of their eyes.<\/p>\n<p>This is what happened on March 24 at <strong>Cap-des-Rosiers<\/strong> in the Gasp\u00e9 Peninsula. A local woman observes a black dot emerge on the smooth, calm sea. Definitely a whale, but of what species? Six to eight minutes later, the whale surfaces again, only farther away this time. Intrigued, the woman asks her neighbour and her neighbour\u2019s mother to keep their eyes peeled for what she believes to be a minke whale. Despite three pairs of eyes staring at the water, the animal was not to be seen again. Two days later, the same resident spots another whale from her home, a humpback this time. Is this <a href=\"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/humpbacks-and-belugas-in-the-gaspe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the individuals that was present last week<\/a>? That\u2019s one possibility, or it could be a newcomer to the Gulf of St. Lawrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the challenges of whale watching is how long it takes for but a fraction of a body to appear on the surface. Oftentimes, a whale will only show 10% of its back for just a few seconds when it surfaces to breathe. 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