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Pod of rare pilot whales spotted off California coast
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Jun 11, 2014
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Pod of rare pilot whales spotted off California coast
Pilot whales haven't been seen off the coast of Southern California since 1996, but they're back. This past weekend, a pod of 50 pilot whales were spotted off the coast of Dana Point in Orange County.
A pilot whale with an injured nose rises out of the water as a pod of approximately 100 gather in Loch Carron on May 20, 2011 in South Uist, Scotland. A rescue operation is underway to prevent the whales from stranding themselves on the rocky shoreline of Loch Carron in the Western Isles.
A pilot whale with an injured nose rises out of the water as a pod of approximately 100 gather in Loch Carron on May 20, 2011 in South Uist, Scotland. Pilot whales are rarely seen in California.
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Pilot whales haven't been seen off the coast of Southern California since 1996, but they're back. This past weekend, a pod of 50 pilot whales were spotted off the coast of Dana Point in Orange County.

Pilot whales haven't been seen off the coast of Southern California since 1996, but they're back. This past weekend, a pod of 50 pilot whales were spotted off the coast of Dana Point in Orange County.

For more we are joined by Alisa Schulman-Janiger, who researches killer and gray whales and is the director of the gray whale census.