PAINTINGS - (a)Longfin Pilot Whale (b)Shortfin Pilot Whale

LONGFIN PILOT WHALE (Globicephala melaena)
Also known as the "pothead" from the rounded, bulging melon, the longfin pilot whale is a temperate-to-cold -water species, found predominantly in the North Atlantic but also in the Southern Ocean, where it may be represented by a subspecies known as Gobicvephala melaena edwardii. Male pilot whales are larger than females and can reach a length of 20 feet (contrasted to 16 feet for the females). These animals are almost compulsively gregarious, and are always found in groups, often numbering in the hundreds. They also strand in numbers and pilot whale fisheries in the Faroes, Orkney, and Shetland Islands are based on the inclination of these animals to remain together, even when threatened by fishermen, who drive them into shallow waters and then slaughter them.
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SHORTFIN PILOT WHALE (Globicephala macrorhynchus)
Although this species is sometimes known as the Pacific pilot whale, it is also found in the Atlantic. Pilot whales feed primarily on squid, and they are believed to be prodigious divers, able to descend to over 2000 feet in pursuit of their prey. This species has been successfully exhibited in oceanariums on the west coast and in Japan.
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Verso: Smithsonian label checklist # 34,35 Packing case # 2, AWHS accession number