baleia-salgada
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Blinded By Sound
Cachalote / sperm whale / sound pollution / underwater
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
A maior loucura de sempre... um mar de baleias!! 💙🐳💙🐳
Literalmente um mar de baleias... pelo fotografo Ralph Lee Hopkins.
@RalphLeeHopkins // "Out ahead of the ship the sea looked like a geyser field. The most experienced among us never have seen such a sight. All across the horizon are towering whale blows. Too many whale blows to count. Hundreds if not a thousand or more. Towering blows. The arching backs as they surfaced reveal a distinct dorsal fin. Fin whales, the second latest whales on Earth, called "greyhounds of the sea” for their ability to swim fast. We are offshore of Coronation Island, in the remote South Orkney Islands in the Southern Ocean. Conditions are perfect. The blows are backlit by the sun, lighting up like flashbulbs. Millions of sea birds in every direction, including petrels, fulmars, albatross, and penguins (not flying). All are here for the same reason–feeding on a bounty of krill, Euphausia superba, the keystone species of the Southern Ocean that surrounds the White Continent of Antarctica. A blue whale surfaces not far from the ship, the largest whale of them all. Seems ironic that the largest animals on earth east some of the smallest prey. The krill factory ships on the horizon are here for the same reason–harvesting krill with powerful vacuum systems, raising questions about sustainability and protecting an ecosystem already hunted once to the brink of extinction. Photos can’t do the situation justice. Video reveals the multitudes in a sweeping expanse of the scene. Perhaps the single largest gathering of fin whales ever encountered and documented. Tears–an experience never to be forgotten. We are humbled to witness such a spectacle. Another day on the Epic Antarctica Expedition on board the National Geographic Endurance."
"Fortuna escorregadia"
"Fortuna escorregadia" (2018), documentário sobre a caça à baleia nos Açores.
Ver aqui: Fortuna Escorregadia
Monday, January 10, 2022
Whale Fall (After Life of a Whale)
Monday, August 02, 2021
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Baleia à vista
YUHUU... ELAS ANDAM AÍ!!!
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Romance de Tomasinho Cara-Feia
Que é o mais que a terra dá,
Tomasinho Cara-Feia
vai prá pesca da baleia.
Quem sabe se tornará?
Torne ou não torne, que tem?
Vai cumprir o seu destinho.
Só nha Fortunata, a mãe,
Que é velha e não tem ninguém,
Chora pelo seu menino.
Torne ou não torne, que importa?
Vai ser igual ao avô.
Não volta a bater-me à porta;
Deixou para sempre a horta,
que a longa seca matou.
Tomasinho Cara-Feia
(outro nome, quem lho dá?),
farto de sol e de areia,
foi prá pesca da baleia.
— E nunca mais voltará!
Romence de Tomasinho Cara-Feia, in Pátria Lugar de Exílio.
Daniel Filipe (1925-1964, Cabo Verde).