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Pilot Whale
ORDER: CETACEA
SUBORDER: ODONTOCETI
FAMILY: DELPHINIDAE
GENDER: GLOBICEPHALA
SPECIES: Long-finned pilot whale (Trail 1809)
Globicefalo, long finned pilot whale, calderòn, globicéphale noir, Grindwal
The pilot whale has sexual dimorphism. The male reaches 7 meters in length and 3 tons in weight, the female is slightly smaller (about 5.5 meters). The body is solid. Has a very small rostrum because of a high globosity of the head. Sometimes you can notice a little messy puff . The color is jet black or dark brown in adults and creamy light brown in the young ones. In the adults there is always a large white spot in chest and belly.
The pilot whale is a gregarious species that forms flocks of tens or thousands of specimem. It’s feeding in depth and feeds mainly on cephalopods especially squid and similars. Widely distributed from temperate to sub-polar waters, pilot whales are killed accidentally in gillnets, bottom trawls and long lines nets. The only area where direct killings continue on a large scale is the Faroe Islands, where the annual catch has increased from an average of about 1500 in the '70s up to 2500 in the ‘80s to decrease then in the years to up to 1000 to 1500 in '90s. In the Mediterranean Sea, the species is not sufficiently studied to estimate the population and the distribution.
- Area Marina Protetta ‘Secche di Tor Paterno’ (Roma)
- Comune di Lacco Ameno
- Università di Tolone
- Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn di Napoli
- Giardino idrotermale Negombo (Lacco Ameno, isola d'Ischia)
- Università degli Studi di Genova
- Università Alma Mater di Bologna
- Cooperativa Pelagos (Isola d’Elba)
- Università degli Studi di Perugia
- Scuola Alberghiera e ENALC Srl (Ostia, Roma)
- Università Parthenope di Napoli
- Souffleurs d'Ecume
- Museo di Villa Arbusto (Lacco Ameno, isola d'Ischia)
- Albergo della Regina Isabella
- Università degli Studi di Pavia
- Associazione NEMO (Barano, isola d'Ischia)
- Giardini Poseidon (Forio, isola d'Ischia)
- CONISMA
- Osservatorio Geofisico (Casamicciola, isola d'Ischia)
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