#beaked whales

[antiqueanimals]

Walt Disney's White Wilderness: Animals of the Arctic. By Robert Louvain and the Staff of the Walt Disney Studio. 1958.

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[wind-tied]

some cetacean ocs :)

[namu-the-orca]

White-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) My friends! Behold! A new friend!!! After more than a year (no joke) without a proper commission, I had a lovely new project to work on these past weeks.

It's for Mindfully Wired Communications, a company in the UK that translates scientific information to the general public through all sorts of means. They're currently collaborating on a project to reduce bycatch in UK fisheries, and part of that is creating an ID guide for the fishermen of animals they might encounter at sea. Really important work which I'm happy to contribute to.

Most of the illustrations they needed I already had lying around. But a few had to be made anew, one of which this handsome fellow, the White-beaked dolphin! Markings wise, they are one of my favourite species of dolphin. I love the way everything on their body just flows. Also they have great whopping dorsal- and pectoral fins, and, irony of ironies, often black-marked beaks as adults.

For some reason it was quite a struggle to make him look right, but in the end I'm happy with the result. I hope you like it too, and the other friends will follow soon!

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the #paleostream!

Cadurcodon (a trunked rhino), Otoceras, Pangerpeton and Ninoziphius (the whale)

[inatungulates]

Cuvier's beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris

Observed by zachsw

[guavajagular]

Zost Bainestooth, a D&D concept of a druid Mer-Orc. I wanted to forgo the usual ocean aesthetic for sea grass and barnacles. Zost likely started as a barbarian, before discovering a shipwreck from a coastal druid circle, and joined them so he could explore the lands above.

Not entirely sure how’d I actually play it, but his wildshape is indeed his bipedal form, he is a Little Mermaid at his core

[perpetualspinach]

My etsy shop is open again!

[ID: four photos of handmade linoprint bookmarks in two designs: sturgeon and grays beaked whale skulls. they are printed in black ink, and have text from hamlet on the back. one photo shows one of the bookmarks in an old book. end ID]

I added these bookmarks, and plan on adding more patches too. I also have cards, linoprints, stickers, and space dog patches 🚀🐶

[bethdehart]

Beaked whale mermaid (or taur. idk) from today’s stream!

[ID: A sketch of an anthropomorphic beaked whale, but instead of legs they have a mermaid tail. Their skin is grayish green, and their face is white. Their skin has a lot of scars all over. They are wearing a yellow tank top with a krill on it. They are smiling and waving at the viewer.]

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Mammals II. 1972. Illustrated by Peter Barrett.

Beaked whales;

1.) Baird's beaked whale (Berardius bairdii)

2.) Strap-toothed whale (Mesoplodon layardii)

3.) True's beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus)

4.) Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens)

5.) Northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus)

White whales and narwhals;

6.) Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas)

7.) Narwhal (Monodon monoceros)

Long snouted dolphins;

8.) Rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis)

9.) Atlantic humpback dolphin (Sousa teuszii)

True dolphins;

10.) Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)

11.) Common dolphin (Delphinus delphis)

12.) Striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba)

13.) Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus)

14.) Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

15.) Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus)

16.) Northern right whale dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis)

Pilot and killer whales;

17.) Long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas)

18.) Pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata)

19.) Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris)

20.) Orca (Orcinus orca)

21.) False killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens)

Commerson's dolphins;

22.) Commerson's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersonii)

Porpoises;

23.) Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)

24.) Spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica)

25.) Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli)

26.) Indo-Pacific finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides)

[videogamewhales]

[ID: An image of a beaked whale from Scribblenauts Unmasked. End ID.]

Beaked whale from the Scribblenauts series (2009-)

[rafallerart]

I haven’t done any anatomy stuff in a long time, so I decided to challenge myself with a creature design project combining eagle and whale anatomy.  The result is what I call a wheagle - not the greatest name, but I started calling it that way back at the beginning of this project and it kind of stuck lol.  

Since I’m still pretty rusty with anatomy, I gave this animal a fairly conservative and recognizable avian body - for the most part.  The head, talons and tail are where the whale anatomy comes into play.  The elongated skull displays telescoping (a reduced distance between the maxilla and occipital), resulting in dorsally located, blowhole-like nostrils.  There is also a melon organ (pictured in the muscle study), a mass of tissue on the dorsal snout that aids in echolocation.  The tusks were inspired by beaked whales, and are only found in the male animal.  All in all the skull components are more mammalian than avian, despite the eagle-like beak and eyes.    

The long, muscular tail was likewise inspired by cetacean muscle/locomotion, but ends in a pygostyle/tail fan that functions the same as in birds.  There are five talons instead of four, but the outer fifth talon is basically vestigial - I only added it as a nod to the five “fingers” within whale flippers.  

The wheagle is a fairly large piscivorous animal native to the South Pole.  It feeds mainly on deep sea icefish, which it hunts using echolocation.  Color scheme is inspired by African fish eagles.  I’ll have some more studies of this creature’s anatomy to share later on; I definitely enjoyed getting back into animal anatomy and creature design!   

[aquatark]

Dolphin Training - The Gabbiano

Endless Ocean, Nintendo Wii

i always give my dolphin partners a naming theme: my first playthrough was after fruits, and my latest one is after local wildflowers! :D

[inatungulates]

Sowerby’s beaked whale Mesoplodon bidens

Observed by wayneosborn, CC BY-NC

[guavajagular]

Ocean Meet Cute

[whaleposters]

Marine Megafauna art print poster. Available at cetek.etsy.com