{
  "id": 16278,
  "title": "baby whales - so cute!",
  "url": "/competitions/noaa-right-whale-recognition/discussion/16278",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2015-09-01T23:03:05.233Z",
  "votes": 6,
  "comment_count": 12,
  "views": 2645,
  "content": "<p>Image w_5270</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http://i.imgur.com/aeuYvf4.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" title></p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "91283",
      "postDate": "09/01/2015 23:03:05",
      "content": "<p>Image w_5270</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http://i.imgur.com/aeuYvf4.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" title></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Image w_5270\r\n\r\n![enter image description here][1]\r\n\r\n\r\n  [1]: http://i.imgur.com/aeuYvf4.png",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "91284",
      "postDate": "09/01/2015 23:05:05",
      "content": "<p>Can a marine biologist confirm? I think those might be dolphins playing in the whale's wakes. But what do I know? Neat find either way!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Can a marine biologist confirm? I think those might be dolphins playing in the whale's wakes. But what do I know? Neat find either way!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "91285",
      "postDate": "09/01/2015 23:51:04",
      "content": "<p>Could be tuna fish. Don't whales eat tuna fish?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Could be tuna fish. Don't whales eat tuna fish?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "91356",
      "postDate": "09/02/2015 15:43:14",
      "content": "<p>From my very unprofessional knowledge, I think they look like dolphins. So pretty!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "From my very unprofessional knowledge, I think they look like dolphins. So pretty!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "91368",
      "postDate": "09/02/2015 17:11:11",
      "content": "<p>These are Atlantic White-Sided dolphins in the photograph</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "These are Atlantic White-Sided dolphins in the photograph",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "91369",
      "postDate": "09/02/2015 17:14:18",
      "content": "<p>Right whale eat zooplankton, primarily a tiny copepod called Calanus which is about the size of a grain of rice (they obviously need to eat quite a few of them!)</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http://www.sintef.no/globalassets/project/calanus/graphics/calanus.jpg\" alt=\"Calanus\" title></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Right whale eat zooplankton, primarily a tiny copepod called Calanus which is about the size of a grain of rice (they obviously need to eat quite a few of them!)\r\n\r\n![Calanus][1]\r\n\r\n\r\n  [1]: http://www.sintef.no/globalassets/project/calanus/graphics/calanus.jpg",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "91494",
      "postDate": "09/03/2015 15:14:13",
      "content": "<p>Hi Christin, </p>\n\n<p>I have noticed dolphins in a lot of the photos. Is that a coincidence or do the dolphins follow the whales (or the helicopters) for some reason?</p>\n\n<p>KB</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi Christin, \r\n\r\nI have noticed dolphins in a lot of the photos. Is that a coincidence or do the dolphins follow the whales (or the helicopters) for some reason?\r\n\r\nKB",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "91501",
      "postDate": "09/03/2015 17:03:56",
      "content": "<p>w_8153 has a real baby whale</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "w_8153 has a real baby whale",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "91521",
      "postDate": "09/03/2015 21:15:48",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Kevin Burnham;91494]</p>\n\n<p>Hi Christin, </p>\n\n<p>I have noticed dolphins in a lot of the photos. Is that a coincidence or do the dolphins follow the whales (or the helicopters) for some reason?</p>\n\n<p>KB</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>@Kevin Burnham - dolphins do tend to occasionally associate with whales, and will even bow ride on them like the do on a vessel, but the reasons for their associations are largely unknown</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "[quote=Kevin Burnham;91494]\r\n\r\nHi Christin, \r\n\r\nI have noticed dolphins in a lot of the photos. Is that a coincidence or do the dolphins follow the whales (or the helicopters) for some reason?\r\n\r\nKB\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\n\r\n@Kevin Burnham - dolphins do tend to occasionally associate with whales, and will even bow ride on them like the do on a vessel, but the reasons for their associations are largely unknown",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "91877",
      "postDate": "09/08/2015 19:38:59",
      "content": "<p>[quote=KA;91501]</p>\n\n<p>w_8153 has a real baby whale</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>Yes! Nice find! Image w_8153 is indeed a mother and baby right whale, often referred to as a cow-calf pair or a mother-calf pair.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "[quote=KA;91501]\r\n\r\nw_8153 has a real baby whale\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\n\r\nYes! Nice find! Image w_8153 is indeed a mother and baby right whale, often referred to as a cow-calf pair or a mother-calf pair.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "92769",
      "postDate": "09/16/2015 16:32:41",
      "content": "<p>I guess these associations are some kind of sneaky hunt tactics (dolphins are smart and tricky creatures):\nBig whale comes for zooplancton which is food for small fishes.\nBig whale feasts on zooplancton, small fishes flee, in the confusion, dolphins attack and harvest them.\nThere could be, in addition to the confusion factor and the fact that attention is mainly directed against big whale, the fact that dolphins might &quot;dogfight&quot; using the sonar shadow of the big whale to hide (or the fact that some fishes are stunned by some hydrostatic shock due to whale passage, but on this latter, I would not say that I made physics calculation).</p>\n\n<p>In addition, some kind of protection against biggest predators, and maybe some detection abilities sharing?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I guess these associations are some kind of sneaky hunt tactics (dolphins are smart and tricky creatures):\r\nBig whale comes for zooplancton which is food for small fishes.\r\nBig whale feasts on zooplancton, small fishes flee, in the confusion, dolphins attack and harvest them.\r\nThere could be, in addition to the confusion factor and the fact that attention is mainly directed against big whale, the fact that dolphins might \"dogfight\" using the sonar shadow of the big whale to hide (or the fact that some fishes are stunned by some hydrostatic shock due to whale passage, but on this latter, I would not say that I made physics calculation).\r\n\r\nIn addition, some kind of protection against biggest predators, and maybe some detection abilities sharing?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "213400",
      "postDate": "08/14/2017 17:34:27",
      "content": "<p>Fishes have their tail fins vertical\nMammals (whales, dolphins, and others) have their tail fins horizontally</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Fishes have their tail fins vertical\nMammals (whales, dolphins, and others) have their tail fins horizontally",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "229377",
      "postDate": "10/09/2017 13:33:51",
      "content": "<p>1: They do look like dolphins\n2: They are NOT fish. Mammals have their tail fins horizontally while fishes have their tail fins vertically. dolpins and whales are mammals.\n3: They do not look like baby whales. Baby whales are more whale shaped. This guys are perfect dolphin shaped</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "1: They do look like dolphins\n2: They are NOT fish. Mammals have their tail fins horizontally while fishes have their tail fins vertically. dolpins and whales are mammals.\n3: They do not look like baby whales. Baby whales are more whale shaped. This guys are perfect dolphin shaped",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 91284,
      "author_name": "piinformatics",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/01/2015 23:05:05",
      "content": "<p>Can a marine biologist confirm? I think those might be dolphins playing in the whale's wakes. But what do I know? Neat find either way!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 229377,
          "author_name": "juanumusic",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "10/09/2017 13:33:51",
          "content": "<p>1: They do look like dolphins\n2: They are NOT fish. Mammals have their tail fins horizontally while fishes have their tail fins vertically. dolpins and whales are mammals.\n3: They do not look like baby whales. Baby whales are more whale shaped. This guys are perfect dolphin shaped</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 91285,
      "author_name": "inversion",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/01/2015 23:51:04",
      "content": "<p>Could be tuna fish. Don't whales eat tuna fish?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 213400,
          "author_name": "juanumusic",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "08/14/2017 17:34:27",
          "content": "<p>Fishes have their tail fins vertical\nMammals (whales, dolphins, and others) have their tail fins horizontally</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 91356,
      "author_name": "wendykan",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/02/2015 15:43:14",
      "content": "<p>From my very unprofessional knowledge, I think they look like dolphins. So pretty!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 91368,
      "author_name": "cbkhan",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/02/2015 17:11:11",
      "content": "<p>These are Atlantic White-Sided dolphins in the photograph</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 91369,
      "author_name": "cbkhan",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/02/2015 17:14:18",
      "content": "<p>Right whale eat zooplankton, primarily a tiny copepod called Calanus which is about the size of a grain of rice (they obviously need to eat quite a few of them!)</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http://www.sintef.no/globalassets/project/calanus/graphics/calanus.jpg\" alt=\"Calanus\" title></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 91494,
      "author_name": "kburnham",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/03/2015 15:14:13",
      "content": "<p>Hi Christin, </p>\n\n<p>I have noticed dolphins in a lot of the photos. Is that a coincidence or do the dolphins follow the whales (or the helicopters) for some reason?</p>\n\n<p>KB</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 91501,
      "author_name": "",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/03/2015 17:03:56",
      "content": "<p>w_8153 has a real baby whale</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 91521,
      "author_name": "cbkhan",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/03/2015 21:15:48",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Kevin Burnham;91494]</p>\n\n<p>Hi Christin, </p>\n\n<p>I have noticed dolphins in a lot of the photos. Is that a coincidence or do the dolphins follow the whales (or the helicopters) for some reason?</p>\n\n<p>KB</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>@Kevin Burnham - dolphins do tend to occasionally associate with whales, and will even bow ride on them like the do on a vessel, but the reasons for their associations are largely unknown</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 91877,
      "author_name": "cbkhan",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/08/2015 19:38:59",
      "content": "<p>[quote=KA;91501]</p>\n\n<p>w_8153 has a real baby whale</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>Yes! Nice find! Image w_8153 is indeed a mother and baby right whale, often referred to as a cow-calf pair or a mother-calf pair.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 92769,
      "author_name": "wildwizard",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/16/2015 16:32:41",
      "content": "<p>I guess these associations are some kind of sneaky hunt tactics (dolphins are smart and tricky creatures):\nBig whale comes for zooplancton which is food for small fishes.\nBig whale feasts on zooplancton, small fishes flee, in the confusion, dolphins attack and harvest them.\nThere could be, in addition to the confusion factor and the fact that attention is mainly directed against big whale, the fact that dolphins might &quot;dogfight&quot; using the sonar shadow of the big whale to hide (or the fact that some fishes are stunned by some hydrostatic shock due to whale passage, but on this latter, I would not say that I made physics calculation).</p>\n\n<p>In addition, some kind of protection against biggest predators, and maybe some detection abilities sharing?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "91283": "Image w_5270\r\n\r\n![enter image description here][1]\r\n\r\n\r\n  [1]: http://i.imgur.com/aeuYvf4.png",
    "91284": "Can a marine biologist confirm? I think those might be dolphins playing in the whale's wakes. But what do I know? Neat find either way!",
    "91285": "Could be tuna fish. Don't whales eat tuna fish?",
    "91356": "From my very unprofessional knowledge, I think they look like dolphins. So pretty!",
    "91368": "These are Atlantic White-Sided dolphins in the photograph",
    "91369": "Right whale eat zooplankton, primarily a tiny copepod called Calanus which is about the size of a grain of rice (they obviously need to eat quite a few of them!)\r\n\r\n![Calanus][1]\r\n\r\n\r\n  [1]: http://www.sintef.no/globalassets/project/calanus/graphics/calanus.jpg",
    "91494": "Hi Christin, \r\n\r\nI have noticed dolphins in a lot of the photos. Is that a coincidence or do the dolphins follow the whales (or the helicopters) for some reason?\r\n\r\nKB",
    "91501": "w_8153 has a real baby whale",
    "91521": "[quote=Kevin Burnham;91494]\r\n\r\nHi Christin, \r\n\r\nI have noticed dolphins in a lot of the photos. Is that a coincidence or do the dolphins follow the whales (or the helicopters) for some reason?\r\n\r\nKB\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\n\r\n@Kevin Burnham - dolphins do tend to occasionally associate with whales, and will even bow ride on them like the do on a vessel, but the reasons for their associations are largely unknown",
    "91877": "[quote=KA;91501]\r\n\r\nw_8153 has a real baby whale\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\n\r\nYes! Nice find! Image w_8153 is indeed a mother and baby right whale, often referred to as a cow-calf pair or a mother-calf pair.",
    "92769": "I guess these associations are some kind of sneaky hunt tactics (dolphins are smart and tricky creatures):\r\nBig whale comes for zooplancton which is food for small fishes.\r\nBig whale feasts on zooplancton, small fishes flee, in the confusion, dolphins attack and harvest them.\r\nThere could be, in addition to the confusion factor and the fact that attention is mainly directed against big whale, the fact that dolphins might \"dogfight\" using the sonar shadow of the big whale to hide (or the fact that some fishes are stunned by some hydrostatic shock due to whale passage, but on this latter, I would not say that I made physics calculation).\r\n\r\nIn addition, some kind of protection against biggest predators, and maybe some detection abilities sharing?",
    "213400": "Fishes have their tail fins vertical\nMammals (whales, dolphins, and others) have their tail fins horizontally",
    "229377": "1: They do look like dolphins\n2: They are NOT fish. Mammals have their tail fins horizontally while fishes have their tail fins vertically. dolpins and whales are mammals.\n3: They do not look like baby whales. Baby whales are more whale shaped. This guys are perfect dolphin shaped"
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