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Southern Right Whales
Southern Right Whales are easily distinguished from the other 2 baleen whales ( Humpback & Bryde’s whales ) by three distinct characteristics: V-shaped blow, callosities on their heads and the...
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Humpback Whales
Humpback” refers to the habit of raising and bending its back in preparation for the dive, accentuating the pronounced hump in front of the dorsal fin.
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Bryde’s Whales
They are named after a Norwegian, John Bryde, who, in 1912, financed the first scientific investigation of whales in South African waters.
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Bowhead Whale
The bowhead whale is so-called because of its bow-shaped mouth and is black in colour with a whitish chin patch , broken by a 'necklace' of black spots.
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Southern Right Whale Behaviour
While at the surface, Southern right whales exhibit a variety of behaviors, including: breaching, fluking (lifting the tail out of the water), spy hopping, logging
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What about whales in the Cape Whale Coast Hope Spot?
With the help of GPS technology and smart phones, researchers from the University of Pretoria’s Mammal Research Institute are unravelling the mysteries of humpback whale migrations and breeding areas...
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Blue Whales
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest baleen whale and the largest animal that ever lived on Earth
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To Study the breath of Whales, Researchers Fly Drones Through Whale Spouts.
Though a whale’s spout looks like a stream of water, that’s actually water vapor from the warm breath being expelled from the whale’s lungs.
View ArticleA new group of killer whales has moved to South Africa – and they have an...
There has been a dramatic decline in great white shark sightings in False Bay, Cape Town, and it looks like shark-eating killer whales could be to blame. This new sub-group of killer whale has moved...
View ArticleSouthern Right Whales 101
The southern right whale, Eubalaena australis, is among the largest of the four baleen whale species that come close inshore on the southern African coast: Southern Right, Humpback, Bryde's and Minke...
View ArticleThe story of Wendy The Whale
Wendy the Whale is the story about a lone female southern right whale who gets beached on the shore of Hermanus, a small fishing town in South Africa and all the townspeople come together to help...
View Article2019 Annual Aerial Survey for Southern Right Whales - Counting our Whales
The whale survey, which was conducted by helicopter, found 200 of the whales in a stretch of False Bay, down from over 1,000 last year, the university said in a statement. Still, in 2016 only 119 were...
View Article3 great holiday adventures for kids in Hermanus
The summer holidays are already in full swing, and parents want to explore as much as they can taking the kids along. If you are in the Hermanus area here are three things to do with the kids.
View ArticleBOOK YOUR WHALE WATCHING & MARINE BIG 5 TRIP TODAY
Book an unforgettable Whale Watching trip today with Hermanus Whale Watchers, a boat-based whale watching company in South Africa. Hermanus is the capital of the Cape Whale Coast, and about an hour...
View ArticleSouthern right whale Aerial Survey - Press Release 2020
A preliminary count survey conducted at the end of August indicated the presence of 71 females with calves and 11 unaccompanied adults, leading to a total of 153 southern right whales, between...
View ArticleMira, the southern right whale who returned to Hermanus after 3 years
Mira is a gorgeous Southern Right Whale with a distinctive white blaze over her back. She returned to Hermanus after 3 years with her second calf.
View ArticleWhale Watching in Hermanus
Hermanus is known as the land based whale capital of the world... from the cliffs, a boat or from the air.
View ArticleWhere are all the whales? Too hungry to migrate
The large numbers of southern right whales that usually visit the South African coast have been in dramatic decline since 2010. Research has shown that many lack the energy to do so and that female...
View ArticleMRI Whale Unit to conduct fieldwork in Walker Bay on Bryde’s whales
During the coming two months, the team will conduct boat-based surveys in Walker Bay to obtain photographs for subsequent individual identification.
View ArticleSouthern Right Whales are back- an all time record count in the 2023 aerial...
The southern right whales are finally on the move back to the feeding grounds in Antarctica. This journey will take them about 6 weeks. What an epic whale-watching season it was this year!!
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