Short-finned pilot whales love eating squid, and boy do they stuff themselves with it, new research finds. Here’s some ...
Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales are surprisingly voracious hunters, diving hundreds of meters beneath the Pacific to ...
How much squid do short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) off the coast of Hawai'i need to consume each day to ...
In the deep, dark waters off the Hawaiian islands, a team of researchers embarked on a mission to uncover the dietary habits ...
For the first time, scientists have calculated a detailed “energetic budget” for Hawaiʻi’s short-finned pilot whales, revealing what it takes to power their extreme, 800-meter (2,600-foot) dives for ...
New estimates suggest that individual Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales eat between 82 and 202 squid per day. For the entire ...
An adult pilot whale needs about 142 squid a day to meet its energy requirements, according to a new University of Hawaii ...
Short-finned pilot whales consume between 82 and 202 of the marine molluscs each every day off the coast of Hawai’i.
"Short-finned pilot whales are fairly small and quick, so we really have to pick our moment," he added. It turns out that ...
Rescuers are trying to free a pod of long-finned pilot whales stranded off the Australian island of Tasmania. Around 470 ...
More than 30 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a beach in New Zealand were safely returned to the ocean after conservation workers and residents helped to refloat them by lifting them on sheets ...
A stranded long-finned pilot whale was euthanized in Sea Bright after attempts to return it to the ocean failed. The whale, a 15-foot male, was found stranded in the surf and deemed too weak to ...