No Right Whale Calves Seen

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/beginning-end-no-babies-endangered-whales-172056377.html

I wonder how much predation by Great Whites happens?

I read some of this which states the Right Whales don’t stay in groups for defense:

http://yalikedags.southernfriedscience.com/great-white-sharks-attack-whales-seriously/

and this:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/latest-news/article206815819.htmlis:

I find it interesting how many GWs Outcast has caught off the coast of HHI in recent years and especially around the same time the Right Whales calve.

Interesting for sure.

Pretty cool what Outcast has accomplished!!

Wonder what kind of setup he uses to pull one of them boatside???

BTW, was at Bft 45 a few years back and had Right whale with calf surface very close to us. Awesome sight!

NN

I questioned the people from Ocearch about the GW’s preying on the whales & they think it happens. There have been pics of dead whales in the Atlantic with whites eating on them.

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Anyone seen a whale in the harbor lately? I know it’s been a while since I’ve seen one and really not sure what kind it was.

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Anyone seen a whale in the harbor lately? I know it’s been a while since I’ve seen one and really not sure what kind it was.


What?! In the harbor? Interesting. How long ago was that?

Yep, just inland from fort sumpter,no doubt about it . I can still remember that giant tail clearing the water and then smashing back down. I thought he may have been after a big school of Shad or herring.It was a cold day,maybe 45 to 50 years ago.

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Originally posted by sman

Yep, just inland from fort sumpter,no doubt about it . I can still remember that giant tail clearing the water and then smashing back down. I thought he may have been after a big school of Shad or herring.It was a cold day,maybe 45 to 50 years ago.


You know you are getting old when 45-50 years ago is a “while back”!

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I’m old but this isn’t from my time. Folks said before Santee the harbor was way different. Dolphin and flying fish inside the jetties. Don’t recall anyone talking about whales though.

Mike Elrod