Beaked Whales - Bahamas

In the deep waters of the Bahamas, Wild Chronicles and Crittercam® gain a fleeting glimpse of a rare and most remarkable sea creature the beaked whale. Incredibly, Crittercam® captures the first video of a birth among these rare whales. What you see will astound you.

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Science & Technology

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• Crittercam
• national geographic

[polkapete11]

mystery solved: it's a whale with a beak nose.

[huntbet]

who nows the boats type оr model filmed there ? be so kind to letter on

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[steelersguy74]

@tonyhawk89 You're thinking of Sowerby's (Mesoplodon bidens). They're a primarily cool-temperate species that have stranded once on the Gulf coast of Florida. Gervais's (europaeus) is a primarily tropical species.

[Ziphiid21]

@tonyhawk89 and @donkeyfieldmouse They're Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris). Note the light brown coloration and arched jawline (evident even in females). They've been studied off the Bahamas for years now. They primarily occur in warm temperate and tropical waters, though they've been recorded as far north as Iceland.

[Guilhaz1]

03:33 baby tail =)

[meatsuit]

wow honestly this is the coolest thing iv seen all day

[Enk64]

I like em. They're like big dolphins.

[daakuivory]

That's amazing, it just proves the ocean is still so very much undiscovered.

[kinghomie3]

the critter cam fell off.  it just didnt deploy right or something

[donkeyfieldmouse]

Ya, my bad.

I would say arctic, cold temperate, perhaps sub-Arctic, I doubt it ventures further north then Greenland.