Episode 99

Dobra večer, slušatelji!

Good evening, listeners!

For our lesson we’ll be learning some words and phrases that will help us talk about the “Last Day of School”. We’ve all enjoyed that feeling of walking out of class for the last time of the year, so let’s enjoy it again together!

Lesson

ast - zadnji

Last day of school - zadnji dan škole

Class - razred

Awards - nagrade

Goodbye classmates - doviđenja prijatelji iz razreda

Summer - Ljeto

School’s out for summer - Škola je završila za ljeto

Summer vacation - ljetovanja

Super Slatko Report

In todays Super Slatko Report, DJ MOE will talk about a marine mammal that has been seed down the Croatian coast line that last couple of years. Tune and find out who has been visiting the Adriatic Croatian waters the last couple of years.

In this Super Slatko Report we will be talking about our friends from the Sea, who have been seen along the Croatian coast lines the last couple of summers. In this Super Slatko we will be talking about the second longest whale how on Earth, second only to the Mighty Blue Whale, lets talk about the Fin Whale.

According to our friends at Wikipedia, the Fin whale, also known as Finback Whales, or even razorback whales, are able to grow up to 27.3m long (89.6 ft) and weighing in at a maximum 114 tons

A whale needs to eat and the Fin Whale is no different, these filter feeders are looking for the Good stuff, krill mainly but also fish and squid.

As  I mentioned in the opening, these whales visiting the Seas of Croatia over the past couple of years.

Back in 2020, researchers from the Croatian Museum of Natural History caught site of a Fin Whale in the Velebit Channel. Known characteristically by their long aero dynamic shapes and short pronounced dorsal fins, researchers were in awe of these majestic animals and their travels. Skin samples were captured and biopsied to better understand their migratorial journeys and  feeding patterns.

A similar encounter occurred just a few months ago at the tail end of the summer of 2022, where off the coast of Otok Viz, near the town of of Komiža, another pod of Fin whales were spotted. Pods of this types of whale tend to number in groups of 5-10, but prior to over fishing these animals, pods would of these gentle giants could go up to 300 members.

A few parting words regarding our friends from the Sea. Fin Whales are on the endangered species list and are not in a population number that is favorable to keep them from going extinct. Prior to extensive whaling practices, the population of these animals hovered some where near 500 thousand, now their number sits between 50 and 90 thousand. So please, if you are able to support or give back in some shape or form, that will help keeps these whales around for generations to come, please do so.

Thanks again, and that’s it for the super Slatko Report.