news say whales and dolphins are monitored in gulf for oil spill effects. i thought whales are only in pacific?
are there whales in the atlantic or the gulf of mexico? i know there are dolphins in the gulf, the football team is called Miami Dolphins. but are there whales?
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whales are in all of the oceans not just the pacific. i don’t know about the gulf of mexico specifically but it sounds like they are
wales is in europe
Range of blue whales:
http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/2477/0/rangemap
Range of fin whales:
http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/2478/0/rangemap
Range of common minke whales:
http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/2474/0/rangemap
Range of humpback whales:
http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/13006/0/rangemap
Range of sperm whales:
http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/41755/0/rangemap
The list goes on.
There certainly are! I used to be involved in marine mammal rescue along the gulf coast, and some of the species we’ve found included bryde’s, sei, minke, sperm, melon-headed, and fake killer whales. There are blue whales in the gulf as well!
Also, keep in mind that the classification of an animal as either a “whale” or a “dolphin” is non-scientific. Taxonomists divide the order Cetacea into Odontocetes (toothed whales) and Mysticetes (baleen whales). So many of the animals we call “whales” (orcas, pilot whales, belugas, etc.) are really more closely related to the animals we call “dolphins.”