Cetaceans are mammals, they are marine mammals and as such are air breathers. Whale researchers can observe cetaceans, (whales, dolphins and porpoises) when they surface to breathe, spotting their blows from afar.
Here is a pygmy blue whale, it’s misty blow shrouding the spashguard.
Familiar Footprints,we are on the trail of a feeding pygmy blue whale.
It’s windy in the Southern Ocean, the left-angled blow of a sperm whale is characteristic. Here two subadult male sperm whales travel together.
Killer whale blows. In the foreground the tall dorsal fin of a male dominates, behind two females or juvenile males parallel.
Just the beginning of a blow from a calf killer whale.
In deepwater near Christmas Island, young males travelled together. A single, left-angled blow totally indicative of sperm whales.
A misty blow rises above a migrating humpback whale.
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