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Is it a porpoise? Is it an orca? No! It’s a false killer whale!

Apr 14, 2021

by Claudia Afeltra

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bycatch, conservation, false killer whale, fisheries, fisheries interactions, Hawaii, pollution, pseudorca, sociality, tropics

For this species feature, we’re going tropical! Cruising through deep pelagic waters, the energetic, exuberant, and extremely social false killer whale could be regarded as one of the best team-players in the animal kingdom. This blog will take a look at how they got their name, how t

A melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin produced the first ever ‘whale-dolphins.’

Aug 26, 2018

by Harriet Goodchild

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dolphins, Hawaii, hybrid, melon-headed whale, Rough-toothed dolphin, Whales

A group of Marine Biologists at Cascadia Research Collective, off the coast of Kauai in Hawaii, claim that a new cetacean species received immediate attraction as these ‘whale-dolphins’ are a hybrid of a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin. A hybrid male inher

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Is it a porpoise? Is it an orca? No! It’s a false killer whale!

A melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin produced the first ever ‘whale-dolphins.’

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