Newport Landing Whale Watching<\/a> as a group that normally hunts off the coast of Mexico and Central America. The pod is most likely up north due to warming waters, as the pod was last seen in the area in 2023 and 2024, during the previous El Ni\u00f1o season.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cThe fact that these whales hung around during \u201923-\u201924 so many times makes this particularly exciting for our crew, who hope to encounter them again along our coast,\u201d said Jessica Rodriguez, a spokesperson for Davey\u2019s Locker & Newport Landing Whale Watching in Newport Beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alisa Schulman-Janiger, the lead biologist for the California Killer Whale Project, recognized the four mothers of the pod, Ana, Baja Nicki, Top Notch and Kali, along with other whales like Cookie and Coronado. The California Killer Whale Project has been collecting data on these animals since 1987, focusing on long-term population studies and predation patterns.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Killer whales aren\u2019t the only marine animal sightings this El Ni\u00f1o season. Recently, two sea turtle nests were discovered in Southern California, belonging to the endangered olive ridley sea turtle, and a hammerhead shark was spotted a mile from Laguna Beach in late August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experts say abnormal water temperatures are bringing in unique wildlife Newport whale watchers were in for a surprise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,166541,5860,611,12512],"class_list":["post-482614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-el-nio","tag-newport-beach","tag-orange-county","tag-whales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}