Monterey Bay Whale Watch It is the name of an association stationed in Monterey Bay, in fact, in California, and specialized on tour by ship in search of whales, dolphins, orcies and other large cetaceans, to be admired and photographing from a safe distance. What Captain Evan Brodsky attended on January 24, however, is a rare show also for an expert navigator like him: during a scientific tour looking for gray whales, his ship Instead, she came across a gigantic dolphinsa mass of specimens more than a km long and which, as revealed by the analyzes carried out via Drone, was populated by more than 1,500 dolphins – who approached the boat and also accompanied it during the trip.
The pod and the mega-pod. The dolphins were spotted off Carmel Bay, off the Central Coast of California, one of the places where the Monterey Bay Whale Watch organizes its excursions. They were members of the species Grampus Griseuswhich in Italian are known as grampi or risso dolphins.
They are respectable animals, which can weigh 500 kg and reach the 4 meters long. Normally they swim in herds, called precisely pods, which include between 10 and 30 specimens: sighting one One hundred times more numerous It is a very rare event.
Journey to company. The passengers of the boat tell that the dolphins followed them for most of the journey: some used the wake generated by the vessel to “surf” and save energy, others played nearby and occasionally approached “healthy” humans on board.
Colleen Talety, a marine biologist who was on the ship during sighting, explained that The mega-pod could be the result of the random encounter of hundreds of pods of normal sizesall directed to the south, and who have therefore decided to make the way together.
