In some cases a whale may expose as much as 90% of body before reinitiating contact with the water. Aside from making a huge splash breaching allows whales to show off their physical prows during mating periods as well as creating a loud sound that can be heard by other whales that are below the waters surface.
In May 1926, John Aldenn Knight put together some fishing folklore and other fishing factors such as the sun and the moon, hence the name Solunar (Sol for sun and Lunar for moon) to form a theory on the patterns of animal movement.
Latin speakers modified lacus into lacuna, and used it to mean pit, cleft, or pool.. English speakers borrowed the term in the 17th century. Another English word that traces its origin to lacuna is lagoon, which came to us by way of Italian and French. Latin, pool, pit, gap â more at lagoon.