#pilotwhales — Public Fediverse posts

16 pilot whales die after stranding on Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11950103/sable-island-pilot-whales-stranded/

13-Nov-2025
Mystery of how much squid short-finned pilot #whales eat resolved
There’s plenty more #squid in the sea for Hawaiian short-finned #pilotWhales

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1104709

#science #ecology #FoodWeb #MarineBiology #cetaceans

Clues for the #evolution of #menopause in whales — and humans?
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/22/1198909539/menopause-humans-whales-evolution

The evolution of menopause in #ToothedWhales https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07159-9

"menopause is something of an evolutionary blip. We are one of the few #animals to experience it... There are five species of toothed #whales that undergo menopause — short-finned #PilotWhales, #FalseKillerWhales, #KillerWhales, #narwhals and #belugas — making it the type of animal that is known to have evolved menopause most frequently."

They squeaked as they died: I tried to help those baby #pilotwhales – but nothing could be done.
"It was the little cries of the dying young ones that hit me hardest.
The sound is hard to describe – like a high-pitched squeak, a forlorn whistle amid the noise of breaking waves."
#WhaleRescue

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/27/wa-pilot-whale-stranding-euthanised-cheynes-beach-volunteer

Volunteers are working frantically on a second day to save dozens of #pilotwhales that have stranded themselves on a beach in #WesternAustralia, but more than 50 have already died #wildlife #whales

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/volunteers-working-save-100-beached-whales-australia-half-101658160

More than 50 pilot whales died in a mass beaching on the Scottish Isle of Lewis.

Maritime rescuers were able to save one single pilot whale after dozens of the animals washed up on a beach in the Outer Hebrides.

Researchers suspect the pod got in trouble over a female giving birth.

https://www.dw.com/en/more-than-50-whales-dead-in-mass-beaching-on-scottish-isle/a-66248922

#UK #Scotland #PilotWhales #Nature

@tommyyum to this I would add the 500 pilot whales slaughtered this year in the #grind in the Faeroe Islands, an annual tragedy that get's few headlines and no "live ticker" coverage. #whaling #whales #cetaceans #dolphins #PilotWhales
(the Guardian article headline says "dolphins", though they are called pilot whales)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/dolphins-killed-faroe-islands-hunt-resumed-may