[CINC] Corrections on Rock and Roll Condor X 5/14

[Kenneth A. Tatro]

Not a rant, just expressing your knowledge and sense of what is going on, in a good discussion.

Thanks for that and the video. Good to see the Grays taking care of themselves.

See ya on a trip out soon.

Ken Tatro


On May 16, 2012, at 9:58 PM, Anthony Lombardi wrote:

> I still just don't get the doubt in whether these whales actually "feed" along this migration,  it has been document in pictures, videos, and in person.   They have been seen "feeding", all be it, it is not in the amounts of surplus of the food they find up north,  they still are "feeding" or shall I give it the term snacking.  There are numerous accounts of them surface feeding on krill and feeding on tube worms and other critters along the migration route and not in their "feeding" grounds.  I don't understand why we would still have to concur with researchers to see if this is true.  Here is an analogy,  if I have eaten a big breakfast and try to go all day not to eat but come across something like  a snack to hold me over.......IS that not FEEDing. What's the difference, just because they are not staying in the area and continually feeding doesn't mean that they are not in fact feeding,  science doesn't really have to be this difficult.  Here's an example of some surface "feeding or shall I say snacking".  I do not agree with the boat handling in the video but it shows what we are talking about     
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJtG4HwhQDg&feature=player_embedded
> Thanks for listening to my rant, Anthony
> 
> --- On Wed, 5/16/12, Mr Zalophus <mr.zalophus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Mr Zalophus <mr.zalophus at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CINC] Corrections on Rock and Roll Condor X 5/14
> To: Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org
> Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 9:42 AM
> 
> Colleagues,
>  
> Sorry to add to an already lengthy discourse.  But as Dr. John Heynig once told me when I asked him point blank about reports of Gray Whales feeding outside the Alaskan grounds (at the ACS Conference on board the Queen Mary, before his death), he stated emphatically that Grays do not feed on their migration.  The general public often thinks wild animals do nothing but feed, and are motivated primarily by food. There may even be an odd individual that exhibits some wierd behavior, but the over arching fact remains that they feed exclusively in Alaskan waters.  I have had the privilege of hearing Capt Mat talk about Gray Whales for many years, and that is what he says...they fast during the migration.   When people see Grays pausing for a while along the migration route, they are not feeding.  Are they nursing, playing, mating, socializing, grooming, resting, studying the environment, orienting themselves?   or all of the above.
> Bob
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> 
> 
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Michael Berg <michaelberg6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> My apologies for mistakes in my 5/14 report.
> I am a newbie naturalist also new at writing
> reports.  I appreciate comments from more
> experienced naturalists as I want reports
> I write to be accurrate.
> The gray whale activity I reported in my 5/14
> report looked like shallow feeding to me but
> Capt. Mat did not state that they were feeding.
> I also reported that Black Storm-petrels were
> observed. They looked like Storm-petrels to me
> and probably were Ashley Storm-petrels not
> Black Storm-petrels.
>  
> Michael
> michaelberg6 at gmail.com 
>  
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