Tell me what your FAVORITE whale is??!!!!

[lost-in-nj]

of course I love Willy
but there are so many others
these are my 3


The Narwhal


Baleen (grey) Whales




and Belugas... I think one of the most beautiful creatures on earth
look at the intelligence in the eyes...






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[SPKrazy]

1. I like Orca

and humpback



I've seen humpback in Hawaii

of course Orca

at seaworld

:hi:

[lost-in-nj]

2. I have seen

Orca's at Seaworld to.....


but I have NEVER seen a whale of any kind in its natural enviroment.....


one of my goals....


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[SPKrazy]

3. cool!

I've only seen the humpbacks that one time

they are awesome

hope you get to see them, it is well worth it

:hug:

[Parche]

4. Favorite Whale......

:rofl:
:hi:
Found whale

[Critters2]

5. Why Fudgie, of course!!

Fudgie the Whale!!

[lost-in-nj]

8. YUM!!!!!!!!!!1

your right.....

but not what I was thinking!!!



:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


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[Critters2]

13. Delete. How did that get there?! nt

[JVS]

46. yup. Fudgie rules

[Hand]

6. It's a tough call.

But I agree with you--Belugas are truly beautiful beings. :loveya:

[lost-in-nj]

21. yeah

they are awesome



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[femmocrat]

7. The one in "Pinocchio"

Amazing animation. Scared the bejeebers out of me when I was a kid... I remember hiding down behind the seat in the theater and being afraid to look!

[lost-in-nj]

11. this one?? I can see why

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[femmocrat]

16. It is even scarier in the movie! LOL

I remember poor little Pinocchio and Geppeto inside the whale... and lots of gigantic ocean waves splashing, dramatic music....you can imagine it.

Thanks for the graphic.... I never have any luck posting pix. :hi:

[stuntcat]

9. The Blue is my favorite

that beluga's just TOO cute!

I watched a show about Blue whales last week that said they're the biggest animal that's ever lived on Earth and scientists don't know where and how they breed and everywhere they travel so they're ..mysterious.. and they live off little krill so they're also mellow & peaceful.

[xchrom]

10. blues, narwhale, and -- maybe humpback

[lost-in-nj]

17. th NY Museum of Natural History has a Blue Whale

hanging from the ceiling...
an Icon to those who go







awesome.....


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[xchrom]

33. you just made me homesick for nyc. -- they have the coolest stuff. nt

[Mike03]

12. When I was a young teenager, I used to wear a pewter

sperm whale pendant, but I really loved all whales. They are just such incredible creatures. I have never been fortunate enough to see one up close.

[lost-in-nj]

18. Whales are incredible

:hi:


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[Mike03]

22. I wish I could see them live or even touch one before

I die. They have enormous brains, and I know they are smarter than we are. They teach their young to use sponges as tools.

[lost-in-nj]

40. touch

yes

a whale
a dolphin
what would be more awesome....


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[TZ]

14. I love all whales

I don't know if I could pick just one. Maybe Orcas cause they have such interesting behavior..There are "native" groups that stay in one place their whole lives and feed mostly on salmon and other fish. Then there are the nomads that wander form place to place and eat seals, sea lions, dolphins, sharks..etc. Very complex social structures

[lost-in-nj]

20. they are the closest to a community....

one of my dreams is to hear whale calls in the wild.....

it is beyond our realm of understanding.....


:hi:


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[chknltl]

15. This is a tough question. My LEAST favorite whale would be my ex....

... I think I pretty much like all the whales equally well. Seen enough wild Orcas, I think that they are quite beautiful up close.

[lost-in-nj]

23. You are so lucky...

to see them in the wild must of been


great....



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sorry about your ex.....

[chknltl]

41. I suppose so, Orca sightings are not too unusual in our area. My personal Orca stories:

I live in western Washington State. My home is quite close to the sea, I can see Commencement bay out my window just fine. (I LOVE THAT!) Orcas are seen frequently enough all up and down Puget Sound. At least once per year the news helicopters will spot a pod of Orcas doing there thing out in "the Sound".

The first time I saw a pod of Orcas was when I was in kindergarten. My father used to scuba dive in and around Commencement bay, and I used to follow him onshore carrying a large rubber bag that my dad would fill with flounder and cod. One day while we were doing this a small Coast Guard ship pulled up very close to my dad's dive spot and a coast guardsmen addressed me with a megaphone. He instructed me to raise one hand for yes and two hands for no, then he asked me if there was a diver down in the water in front of me. I raised one hand signaling yes. Then he told me that I had to tell the diver to get out of the water when next he surfaced and to raise one hand if I understood him. I raised my hand again. Then he told me that there was a pod of Orcas nearby and that they would keep the ship between the pod and the diver until he came up.

Sure enough there really was a pod of Orcas just beyond the coast guard ship. I would estimate that they were perhaps two stones throw distant from where I was standing on the shore. A short while later my dad came up with a stringer loaded with flounders. As he came ashore I told him that he had to get out of the water. This angered him because...well NOBODY told my dad what to do, ESPECIALLY one of his kids! I told him that the guys on the coast guard ship behind him had told me to tell him that he had to get out of the water. When he turned around the coastguard man with the megaphone told my dad what was up plus we could plainly see the 6 or so Orcas still hanging out nearby. They were in no particular hurry, they seemed to be lazily moving parallel to the shore. We watched them and the coast-guard vessel for maybe another half hour before they moved off. Needless to say, my dad was in no hurry to get back in the water that day.

Many, many years later I had a summer job as the "ten-per-center" on a small gill net boat. We fished for salmon up near the San Juan Islands and sometimes up in Boundary Bay. One day while waiting to drop our net, a pod (or more) of Orca whales came through our area. They were chasing a LARGE school of silver salmon. The salmon were leaping out of the water everywhere around our little boats, (there were a bunch of other gill-netters staking out a place to drop their nets as well). I was amazed by the size of the school of salmon as I could see jumpers pretty much as far as I could see in all directions. The Orcas were not so close this time but I could definitely see when their fins came out of the water and the salmon jumping out of the water trying to get away. The boat's owner was not at all impressed with the orcas because he said they had destroyed one of his nets a few years earlier but he was impressed with the school of salmon. He said he had never seen anything like what we were witnessing. The "show" went on for perhaps an hour and then the Orcas moved beyond sight. Eventually after things calmed down, we got the signal to drop our nets. That was our BEST day by far of fishing, we damn near swamped the boat bringing the net and all those salmon aboard. All the boats around us were doing pretty good business as well. I wound up earning $1200 for my one day of work, (my "ten percent"), when on a normal day I would have been lucky to have gotten $30!

[SallyMander]

19. Whale shark!

[Bicoastal]

25. That's a FISH!

A really big fish, but a fish nonetheless. Whales are mammals!

[SallyMander]

28. I know

I just like 'em :D

[lost-in-nj]

26. OH yeah

my son could tell you everything about them...

he knows about whales and sharks

and WWII aircraft!!!!


how are you feeling????

hope better...


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[SallyMander]

29. Sounds like he has some eclectic knowledge!

:D

I am feeling better, thanks! Just having a mellow evening. :hug:

[TZ]

27. When I went to University of Maryland

One of the professors there was Dr. Eugenie Clark,the shark lady they called her. She was one of the foremost experts on whale sharks and you could see all these different pictures of her hanging on to their dorsal fins.
She did a lot of work for National Geographic society. Sadly, I believe she passed away a few years ago but I did get the opportunity to talk with her once or twice.Fascinating lady,

[lost-in-nj]

30. sounds like you were lucky

to meet someone like that.....

I would have loved at least 1/2 hour with Jacques Cousteau


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[SallyMander]

31. I've heard of her!

That's really neat you got to meet her! What an amazing woman she must be (according to Wikipedia, she's still alive!). :hi:

[LeftyMom]

36. Wow.

I remember her from national geo shark stuff when I was a little kid.

[fortyfeetunder]

42. Dr. Clark -- the grand dame of shark research

The early Discovery/Animal Planet shark week regularly featured her. Admiration for you for meeting her!

[pokerfan]

24. Orca (though they aren't actually whales)

[lost-in-nj]

32. YEAH!!!

great picture!!!!



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[zingaro]

34. The narwhal for me.

I don't know why, exactly. Maybe it's a unicorn thing from my youth.

[ChazII]

35. Narwhal and

Orcas. (Yes, I know that Orca's are in the dolphin family.)

[flvegan]

37. All of them.

Go Sea Shepherd!!

[skater314159]

38. Belugas and Aetiocetus

(They are from the Oligocene and are the ancestor of baleen whales)

[SOteric]

39. J16

[billyoc]

43. I don't have one, I love them all. I've heard whales in the wild singing right next to my head

sleeping on board ships. No better way to go to sleep in this world. :hi:

[BrotherBuzz]

44. California Grey and the Killer whales are my favorites as I've seen them both before

The Blue whale is on my shit list because it busted up a 40 foot offshore racing catamaran that I had worked on for years and was my chief source of employment. The boat got towed to shore and we cut it up with a chainsaw and tossed the pieces, sans hardware, into a huge dumpster - a total loss, but totally insured, too.

[Jamastiene]

45. Keiko

And the Beluga whales look so much like dolphins.

Speaking of dolphins. Have you see this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMCf7SNUb-Q

It's so sweet and beautiful.

[Flaxbee]

47. If they're alive, I'm happy. It's all I ask.

remember J.J. the newborn gray whale that Sea World nursed to health and then released in 1997/98? She was lovely.

[shanti]

48. the big'n

[Blue_In_AK]

49. The little belugas are my favorite

Some of them hang out not too far from here. We used to watch them swimming in Cook Inlet from the office I worked in before I "retired" to my home office.

[LeftyMom]

50. basilosaurus

[Iggo]

51. People are so gonna take this the wrong way.

Sperm.

[applegrove]

52. I like blue whales though you never see film footage of them or pictures. They

are so mysterious.

[Westegg]

53. "John Henry Bonham: Moby Dick dick dick dick..."

[BarenakedLady]

54. Sperm!!

Wait, what was the question?