A rarely seen Cuvier's beaked whale breaches off the island of El Hierro in the Canary Islands. In 2005, scientists and engineers from WHOI, University of La Laguna (Canary Islands) and University of Aarhus (Denmark) studied this population of whales to learn about their underwater behavior and how they reacted to sonar testing, which may make them vulnerable to stranding. See Pilot Whales—the Cheetahs of the Deep. (Photo by Natacha Aguilar, University of La Laguna, taken under permit from the Canary Islands Government) Read this article »« previous | main | next » | 
