r/whales

I've heard that in many cases locals attract whales and other animals to specific area for tourists to watch them and thereby to pay. Is it cruelty-free to book a trip to see whales in real life? Cause I don't want to support these trips if they harm them in any way

On a side note. This tactic may be fruitful in stopping the killer whales attacking boaters, yachts, and the like...

On another note. I had come acrossed an article stating Russia was teaching animals, including dolphins, seals, and the killer whales to take orders from them...

I need to know the circumference. Either of the widest one, the average, an estimate or just any blue whale. Someone asked for the height of a blue whale here once, but the link for the answer was removed by the site hosting it. Is this a thing that has ever been measured? What about other whales?

It’s been a busy year so far and we’ve had so many great Bigg’s killer whale encounters here in the Salish Sea! I wanted to share some of those encounter highlights that we’ve had at the Orca Behavior Institute (OBI) and so I put this video together which also includes a hydrophone recording that we got of a fantastic and very vocal group in San Juan Channel that included: T86A1s, T86A3, T90s, T100E, T124A4s.
Hope you enjoy! 😊

On the surface I can understand, Japan has a more illegal way of doing and they do hunt considerably more endangered species.

But on the other hand, in Norway and Iceland whaling is staunchly defended as ethical practice and minke whales are incredibly abundant despite the strong potential long consequences of that with killing more whales in total than Japan and concentrated on one species.