Column of moist air expelled through the blowhole when the whale surfaces to breath.
When a whale or dolphin swims next to or in front of a vessel.
Process in which whales either singly or cooperatively blow a circle of bubbles from under water in order to create a wall or curtain of bubbles that traps small schooling fish and makes them easier to capture in a single lunging gulp through the center of the bubble curtain.
When a whale or dolphin begins a deep dive, it lifts its tail into the air to help it thrust its body into a more steeply angled descent to deeper waters.
Forcefully slapping the flukes against the surface of the water.
Performed by some baleen whale species, like right whales, when they swim slowly through swarms of plankton at the surface with mouths part open, taking in water and prey (usually krill or copepods), which they then filter out through their baleen plates.
Raising a flipper out of the water and slapping it noisily against the water's surface.
A behavior where a whale or dolphin raises its head vertically above the water, then slips back below the surface; a spyhop seems to be a means of obtaining a view above the surface.
A method of feeding used by some whales and dolphins, by which they use their throat muscles and tongue in a piston-like action to suck prey into their mouths.
A recognized behavior category for whales and dolphins, during which the majority of the group is swimming forward consistently in one direction at a moderate to fast pace, usually in a tight formation.
