Appreciate I did a pretty rubbish job of updating on @lmcwhin.bsky.social and I’s Svalbard WAVE project adventure to survey marine mammals in the Arctic with HX!

But I’ll make up for it with some snaps 📷 🐻‍❄️ 🐋 🦭

#MarMamm #Whale #Walrus #Arctic #Polarbear #Svalbard

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Harbor porpoise male leaping while attempting to mate with female.

Harbor porpoise male leaping while attempting to mate with female.

Harbor porpoise male leaping while attempting to mate with female.

Harbor porpoise male leaping while attempting to mate with female.

It was a wild time in the field last week, where our staff saw 6 mating attempts, including this one! Often we will see 1 or 2 at a time, but 6 was a bit over average. Guess they were feeling springtime!

#pacmam #research #mating #marinemammalscience #porpoise #marinemammals #marmamm 🐬

harbor porpoise group surfacing mother and calves

Harbor porpoise group surfacing mothers and calves

Harbor porpoise group surfacing mothers and calves

Harbor porpoise group surfacing mothers and calves

We were so excited to see a group of 3 mother and calf pairs swimming closely together recently. They were quite cohesive hanging out together!

#pacmam #research #marmamm #marinemammals #salishsea🐬

Harbor porpoises take mating to another level - an aerial one!

Learn more in the chapter on porpoises we were a part of in the open access book: Sex in Cetaceans! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#pacmam #research #marmamm #marinemammals #salishsea 🐬

Harbor porpoise surfing a boat wake

Harbor porpoise surfing a boat wake

Did you know that harbor porpoises wake ride? They do in Burrows Pass! They don't follow the boat, but ride the residual wake after the boat passes.
#marinemammals #marmamm