Porpoise Conservation Society
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Killer Whales “Ruin” Our Day of Porpoise Study – 17/5/20
We study porpoises around the world, but obviously, every living thing in the ocean gets our attention. Big and small, black and white or the simple, stylish grey of our favourite small cetacean, the Harbour Porpoise, we get to see it all. Sometimes, though, we are a little more conflicted about those sightings, and this…
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A Rare Encounter with Mating Harbour Porpoises – 05/19
Harbour Porpoise have a pretty wild sex life: They mate promiscuously, and the speed and energy involved in a mating attempt often results in fast aerial displays otherwise rarely observed in this species On a sunny day in the spring of 2019, our marine mammal observers were treated to an unexpected display of Harbour Porpoise…
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A Humpback Instead of Harbour Porpoises – 17/4/19
We went to watch for Harbour Porpoise at Whytecliff Park. The weather looked okay, and we had seen a lot of California Sea Lions the day before, so we figured there would be food and plenty of marine mammals. We saw this humpback before we had even made it to the observation point; and it…
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A Story with a Porpoise – 8/7/18
A little girl, maybe 4 or 5 years old, was standing on deck next to me, looking out at sea and asking her dad: “Can you see whales from the ferry?’, and he replied that yes, indeed you could, or so he had heard from others. “I’ve heard stories about that. People have seen whales.…
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The T123’s in Howe Sound – 2/5/18
Aka how Killer Whales ruin everything…if you’re looking for Harbor Porpoises 😛 When you’ve spend a few hundred hours watching for marine mammals from land you get this feeling for something not being quite right, when something just seems off. Today was one of those days. Howe Sound off Whytecliff Park just felt a little bit too…