{"id":8896,"date":"2011-04-20T21:58:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=8896"},"modified":"2011-04-20T21:58:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T02:58:10","slug":"cape-cod-whale-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=8896","title":{"rendered":"Cape Cod Whale Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wwpost-002.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8902\" title=\"wwpost 002 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wwpost-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"wwpost 002 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wwpost-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wwpost-002-480-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Humpback Whale off Cape Cod<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Yes,\u00c2\u00a0we admit it.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re tired of a long, lingering\u00c2\u00a0cold spring and a too late start to the field research season.\u00c2\u00a0 So, we&#8217;re\u00c2\u00a0fast-forwarding to summer\u00c2\u00a0with a virtual whale watch in Stellwagen Bank off Cape Cod.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wwpost-001.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8904\" title=\"wwpost 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wwpost-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"wwpost 001 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wwpost-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wwpost-001-480-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Humpback Whale &#8220;Trevor&#8221; Identified by Fluke Design<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beyond the unbridled pleasure of\u00c2\u00a0seeing these great mammals up close and personal, professional\u00c2\u00a0naturalists on certified whale watch vessels provide observational data and photographic documentation of whales that yield information on population trends, as well as health of individual animals\u00c2\u00a0and general behavioral characteristics.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/s87x2iNbB_M?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/s87x2iNbB_M?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>August Whale Watch in Stellwagen Bank<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">At least once a year, Turtle Journal heads out on a whale watch boat from either Plymouth Harbor or Provincetown to visit Stellwagen Bank and to savor the experience of cruising with these\u00c2\u00a0giant animals.\u00c2\u00a0 We also\u00c2\u00a0gather documentary material on humpback, finback and minke whales for our educational programs, as well as observations of other marine\u00c2\u00a0megafauna such as ocean sunfish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wwpost-003.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8900\" title=\"wwpost 003 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wwpost-003-480.jpg\" alt=\"wwpost 003 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wwpost-003-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wwpost-003-480-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Humpback Whale Prepares to Dive<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">There is nothing so majestic as a group of humpback whales coordinating a massive\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;bubble net&#8221; feeding, and\u00c2\u00a0afterwards blowing steam for a deep dive to begin the process all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humpback Whale off Cape Cod Yes,\u00c2\u00a0we admit it.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re tired of a long, lingering\u00c2\u00a0cold spring and a too late start to the field research season.\u00c2\u00a0 So, we&#8217;re\u00c2\u00a0fast-forwarding to summer\u00c2\u00a0with a virtual whale watch in Stellwagen Bank off Cape Cod. Humpback Whale &#8220;Trevor&#8221; Identified by Fluke Design Beyond the unbridled pleasure of\u00c2\u00a0seeing these great mammals up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[823],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8896"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8922,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions\/8922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}