{"id":10,"date":"2024-01-12T15:33:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T15:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.espacotalassa.com\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-10-21T19:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T19:30:53","slug":"cetaceans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/cetaceans\/","title":{"rendered":"Cetaceans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of <strong>29 species of cetaceans<\/strong> have been recorded in the waters of the Azores.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over <strong>thousands of hours spent at sea<\/strong>, <strong>Espa\u00e7o Talassa<\/strong> has encountered <strong>28 of these species<\/strong>, including some rarely seen in the archipelago such as the <strong>Bryde\u2019s whale (Balaenoptera edeni)<\/strong>, <strong>long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas)<\/strong>, <strong>Fraser\u2019s dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei)<\/strong>, <strong>rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis)<\/strong>, and both the <strong>dwarf (Kogia sima)<\/strong> and <strong>pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps)<\/strong>.<br>According to beaked whale specialists, our team has also documented sightings of the <strong>True\u2019s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus)<\/strong> \u2014 a particularly elusive species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While some cetacean species are <strong>resident year-round<\/strong> in the Azorean waters, others appear only <strong>seasonally<\/strong>, following migratory routes and oceanic food sources.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 29 species of cetaceans have been recorded in the waters of the Azores. Over thousands of hours spent at sea, Espa\u00e7o Talassa has encountered 28 of these species, including some rarely seen in the archipelago such as the Bryde\u2019s whale (Balaenoptera edeni), long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas), Fraser\u2019s dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei), rough-toothed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-cetaceans.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"The 28 cetacean species we have recorded around Pico, from sperm whales and dolphins to rare beaked whales. Whale watching mid-March to October.","rank_math_facebook_title":"28 Cetacean Species Seen Around Pico","rank_math_facebook_description":"Sperm whales, dolphins, blue whales and a few beaked whales that hardly anyone has seen. Meet the species of the Azores.","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"28 Cetacean Species Seen Around Pico","rank_math_twitter_description":"Sperm whales, dolphins, blue whales and a few beaked whales that hardly anyone has seen. Meet the species of the Azores.","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_facebook_image_id":0,"rank_math_robots":[],"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9497,"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/9497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/espacotalassa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}