You’ve probably wanted to do more to help whales, but maybe
you found it difficult to find something you could do with your mouth
full of gourmet
chips and dips. Eating Whale Tail Tortilla chips is a good start, and
the Whale Song Project at Scientific American will be like music to your
ears, which is a lucky thing because your mouth is full and it couldn’t
hear anyway.
All you have to do is visit Whale FM.
They have more than 15,000 recordings of Killer Whales and Pilot
Whales. You listen to a clip at the top of the page and look at a visual
image of the pitch changes. Then, you click to match it with one of the
samples listed at the bottom of the page.
For conservation purposes, it’s important for scientists to learn
more about why and when animals make certain sounds. There is growing
evidence that the increase in noise made by human activities is harming
marine life. Findings from crowd sourced studies can help promote better
regulations on activities like oil and gas exploration.
All this may even help you with getting a good job. You’ve probably
seen headlines about robots replacing people at some companies. As it
turns out, projects like this prove that humans are a lot better than
robots at making visual comparisons. And we probably select better snack
foods. Take that robots.
While you’re at it, fill in any pesky gaps on your resume by saying
you worked with scientists to study whale communications and throw in
fancy terms like spectrogram. Before you know it the interviewer will be
asking you when you can start and wanting to know if you’re available
so they can introduce you to their single friends.
Whale Tail Tortilla Chips makes healthy snacking and helping the environment taste so good. Contact us to try all three flavors.
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
Watching the Whales Go 'Round
Whale watching season is underway in San Diego! Each year, 20,000 eastern gray whales embark on the world's longest mammal migration, a 10,000 mile round trip from their summer home in the Bering Sea to their Baja California calving and mating grounds.
From late December through mid-April, naturists from the Birch Aquarium, home of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and proud vendors of Whale Tails Tortilla Chips, invite the public to join them on daily excursions to locate the magnificent gray whales. Ocean experts are on board to answer your questions about marine life as they point out not only whales, but seals, dolphins and sea lions.
On the Scripps blog, whale watching coordinator Audrey Evens calls the migration a parade:
...our passengers and naturalists observed gray whale mating behavior, females traveling with calves, breaching (leaping with much of the body out of the water) and spyhopping (raising the head above water to peek around).and Birch Aquarium naturist Elizabeth Argyle explains the gray whales' diving pattern:
During their approximate 5,000-mile southward journey, gray whales demonstrate a unique behavior of 3-5 surface dives followed by a single deeper dive known as a sounding dive. Following each subsequent shallow dive, the whale surfaces and exhales.Daily Flagship–San Diego Harbor Excursions depart at 9:45 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., lasting three and a half hours. Printable $5 discount coupons for the 2013-2014 season are available here.
If you love whale watching as much as we do, contact us and share your stories!
Thursday, January 9, 2014
We benefit from our wonderful relationship with whales
We benefit from our wonderful relationship with whales
To call whale poop wonderful might sound like an oxymoron, but in fact, whale poop is actually pretty darn great.
Releasing fecal matter is not only a necessary part of a whale’s
health, but excrement from whales does wonders for the ecosystem too. Whale poop helps to keep the carbon emissions that occur both naturally and unnaturally under control. Here’s how.
The release of carbon into the atmosphere happens all the time. Carbon is an element that can be found in many things both living and nonliving. In living things carbon is released upon death. Decomposing bodies release the carbon that has been stored inside. But not all carbon emissions occur naturally. While some carbon is a good thing, excessive levels of carbon are not. Man-made, modern conveniences like cars, planes, trucks, and trains, release excessive levels of carbon into the atmosphere. When released carbon exceeds the level of carbon that nature is capable of removing from the atmosphere, then HOUSTON we have a problem. This is where the whales come in.
Whale poop is light in weight and varies in color from a cloudy brown liquid excrement in some whales to a white cluster resembling floating cotton in other whale types. Sometimes the fecal matter is released in a small quantity, but at other times whales can release quite a large load. Once expelled into the environment it goes to work. Living on the ocean’s surface is phytoplankton that pull carbon from the atmosphere. Phytoplankton are tiny, little water plants. Like all living things, they feed off substances existing in their surroundings, which means that their food must therefore come from food sources that linger on the water’s surface too. This is where the poop comes in to play. The whales release poop and phytoplankton consume it. The whales' waste gives them energy to not only give off oxygen, but to also drag carbon from the atmosphere. Voila! We have a healthier balanced ecosystem! And since we breathe oxygen too , we also benefit from this wonderful relationship between whales and phytoplankton. Thank you, marine friends!
Live in harmony with the environment! Contact us today.
To call whale poop wonderful might sound like an oxymoron, but in fact, whale poop is actually pretty darn great.
Releasing fecal matter is not only a necessary part of a whale’s
health, but excrement from whales does wonders for the ecosystem too. Whale poop helps to keep the carbon emissions that occur both naturally and unnaturally under control. Here’s how.
The release of carbon into the atmosphere happens all the time. Carbon is an element that can be found in many things both living and nonliving. In living things carbon is released upon death. Decomposing bodies release the carbon that has been stored inside. But not all carbon emissions occur naturally. While some carbon is a good thing, excessive levels of carbon are not. Man-made, modern conveniences like cars, planes, trucks, and trains, release excessive levels of carbon into the atmosphere. When released carbon exceeds the level of carbon that nature is capable of removing from the atmosphere, then HOUSTON we have a problem. This is where the whales come in.
Whale poop is light in weight and varies in color from a cloudy brown liquid excrement in some whales to a white cluster resembling floating cotton in other whale types. Sometimes the fecal matter is released in a small quantity, but at other times whales can release quite a large load. Once expelled into the environment it goes to work. Living on the ocean’s surface is phytoplankton that pull carbon from the atmosphere. Phytoplankton are tiny, little water plants. Like all living things, they feed off substances existing in their surroundings, which means that their food must therefore come from food sources that linger on the water’s surface too. This is where the poop comes in to play. The whales release poop and phytoplankton consume it. The whales' waste gives them energy to not only give off oxygen, but to also drag carbon from the atmosphere. Voila! We have a healthier balanced ecosystem! And since we breathe oxygen too , we also benefit from this wonderful relationship between whales and phytoplankton. Thank you, marine friends!
Live in harmony with the environment! Contact us today.
We benefit from our wonderful relationship with whales
We benefit from our wonderful relationship with whales
To call whale poop wonderful might sound like an oxymoron, but in fact, whale poop is actually pretty darn great.
Releasing fecal matter is not only a necessary part of a whale’s
health, but excrement from whales does wonders for the ecosystem too. Whale poop helps to keep the carbon emissions that occur both naturally and unnaturally under control. Here’s how.
The release of carbon into the atmosphere happens all the time. Carbon is an element that can be found in many things both living and nonliving. In living things carbon is released upon death. Decomposing bodies release the carbon that has been stored inside. But not all carbon emissions occur naturally. While some carbon is a good thing, excessive levels of carbon are not. Man-made, modern conveniences like cars, planes, trucks, and trains, release excessive levels of carbon into the atmosphere. When released carbon exceeds the level of carbon that nature is capable of removing from the atmosphere, then HOUSTON we have a problem. This is where the whales come in.
Whale poop is light in weight and varies in color from a cloudy brown liquid excrement in some whales to a white cluster resembling floating cotton in other whale types. Sometimes the fecal matter is released in a small quantity, but at other times whales can release quite a large load. Once expelled into the environment it goes to work. Living on the ocean’s surface is phytoplankton that pull carbon from the atmosphere. Phytoplankton are tiny, little water plants. Like all living things, they feed off substances existing in their surroundings, which means that their food must therefore come from food sources that linger on the water’s surface too. This is where the poop comes in to play. The whales release poop and phytoplankton consume it. The whales' waste gives them energy to not only give off oxygen, but to also drag carbon from the atmosphere. Voila! We have a healthier balanced ecosystem! And since we breathe oxygen too , we also benefit from this wonderful relationship between whales and phytoplankton. Thank you, marine friends!
Live in harmony with the environment! Contact us today.
To call whale poop wonderful might sound like an oxymoron, but in fact, whale poop is actually pretty darn great.
Releasing fecal matter is not only a necessary part of a whale’s
health, but excrement from whales does wonders for the ecosystem too. Whale poop helps to keep the carbon emissions that occur both naturally and unnaturally under control. Here’s how.
The release of carbon into the atmosphere happens all the time. Carbon is an element that can be found in many things both living and nonliving. In living things carbon is released upon death. Decomposing bodies release the carbon that has been stored inside. But not all carbon emissions occur naturally. While some carbon is a good thing, excessive levels of carbon are not. Man-made, modern conveniences like cars, planes, trucks, and trains, release excessive levels of carbon into the atmosphere. When released carbon exceeds the level of carbon that nature is capable of removing from the atmosphere, then HOUSTON we have a problem. This is where the whales come in.
Whale poop is light in weight and varies in color from a cloudy brown liquid excrement in some whales to a white cluster resembling floating cotton in other whale types. Sometimes the fecal matter is released in a small quantity, but at other times whales can release quite a large load. Once expelled into the environment it goes to work. Living on the ocean’s surface is phytoplankton that pull carbon from the atmosphere. Phytoplankton are tiny, little water plants. Like all living things, they feed off substances existing in their surroundings, which means that their food must therefore come from food sources that linger on the water’s surface too. This is where the poop comes in to play. The whales release poop and phytoplankton consume it. The whales' waste gives them energy to not only give off oxygen, but to also drag carbon from the atmosphere. Voila! We have a healthier balanced ecosystem! And since we breathe oxygen too , we also benefit from this wonderful relationship between whales and phytoplankton. Thank you, marine friends!
Live in harmony with the environment! Contact us today.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
A Whale of a Surprise!
A Whale of a Surprise!
We all know that whales are amazing creatures. Their size coupled with their grace and beauty make them incredible animals to behold. But for all that you do know about whales, there are probably a few things that you don’t. Check out some of these surprising facts about our mammalian marine counterparts.
Surprising Fact #1: Just because it looks like a whale does not mean it is a whale. Yes, the orca, which is more commonly known as the killer whale, actually is not a whale at all- it is a dolphin. The orca is one of the largest species of dolphins measuring 25 feet in length and weighing over 12,000 pounds. Like its more widely known dolphin relatives, the orca is extremely intelligent. Orcas have been observed teaching very sophisticated hunting maneuvers to one another – much to the disappointment of the hunted, of course. And like dolphins, orcas crave social interaction and travel in groups called pods. In fact, orcas form tight knit intergenerational family units where three or four generations may live together in a traveling pack.
Surprising Fact #2: Whales have big bodies and therefore they must eat big things. Not quite. Though some whales dine on other marine mammals, blue whale eat teeny tiny krill. Yes, krill. Try to picture feeding pieces of tic-tac sized morsels of meat to a 280 pound linebacker. Get the picture? Krill measures a measly 1 to 2 centimeters in length. The blue whale dines at the bottom of the ocean floor. They use a method known as filter feeding to gather its prey. Filter feeding means that the whale opens its mouth very wide and then swims about. Water flows into the whale’s mouth along with the krill. The whale then pushes the water out but the krill gets stuck in the comb-like teeth called baleen. The whale is left with a mouth full of delicious krill to eat.
Surprising Fact #3: All whales are not gigantic. There is a species of whale known as the dwarf sperm whale that only measures 8.5 in length and weights a mere 550 whale pounds. Comparatively speaking, this is miniscule; the blue whale can grow to a massive 100 feet and weigh 300,000 pounds (150 tons). So this is like comparing a Mack truck to toy car. This petite whale can be found in both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
Now you know! We are proud to manufacture a product that celebrates the full-blooded whales and those whales who happen to be a distant cousin. We hope you continue to share our love and admiration for these incredible creatures. Contact us to learn about our delicious non gmo project verified products.
We all know that whales are amazing creatures. Their size coupled with their grace and beauty make them incredible animals to behold. But for all that you do know about whales, there are probably a few things that you don’t. Check out some of these surprising facts about our mammalian marine counterparts.
Surprising Fact #1: Just because it looks like a whale does not mean it is a whale. Yes, the orca, which is more commonly known as the killer whale, actually is not a whale at all- it is a dolphin. The orca is one of the largest species of dolphins measuring 25 feet in length and weighing over 12,000 pounds. Like its more widely known dolphin relatives, the orca is extremely intelligent. Orcas have been observed teaching very sophisticated hunting maneuvers to one another – much to the disappointment of the hunted, of course. And like dolphins, orcas crave social interaction and travel in groups called pods. In fact, orcas form tight knit intergenerational family units where three or four generations may live together in a traveling pack.
Surprising Fact #2: Whales have big bodies and therefore they must eat big things. Not quite. Though some whales dine on other marine mammals, blue whale eat teeny tiny krill. Yes, krill. Try to picture feeding pieces of tic-tac sized morsels of meat to a 280 pound linebacker. Get the picture? Krill measures a measly 1 to 2 centimeters in length. The blue whale dines at the bottom of the ocean floor. They use a method known as filter feeding to gather its prey. Filter feeding means that the whale opens its mouth very wide and then swims about. Water flows into the whale’s mouth along with the krill. The whale then pushes the water out but the krill gets stuck in the comb-like teeth called baleen. The whale is left with a mouth full of delicious krill to eat.
Surprising Fact #3: All whales are not gigantic. There is a species of whale known as the dwarf sperm whale that only measures 8.5 in length and weights a mere 550 whale pounds. Comparatively speaking, this is miniscule; the blue whale can grow to a massive 100 feet and weigh 300,000 pounds (150 tons). So this is like comparing a Mack truck to toy car. This petite whale can be found in both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
Now you know! We are proud to manufacture a product that celebrates the full-blooded whales and those whales who happen to be a distant cousin. We hope you continue to share our love and admiration for these incredible creatures. Contact us to learn about our delicious non gmo project verified products.
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