Happy Orca Action Month! We are celebrating all month long on the Whale Tales Podcast with four special episodes each highlighting a specific Orca (or OrcaS) from around the world with a truly terrific tale. This week we are talking the notorious Port and Starboard! Show Notes: –Confirmation of the occurrence of a second killer […]

Happy Orca Action Month! We are celebrating all month long on the Whale Tales Podcast with four special episodes each highlighting a specific Orca (or OrcaS) from around the world with a truly terrific tale. Today we have a short and sweet episode about Old Thom (not to be confused with last week’s episode about […]

Happy Orca Action Month! We are celebrating all month long on the Whale Tales Podcast with four special episodes each highlighting a specific Orca (or OrcaS) from around the world with a truly terrific tale. First off we have Old Tom and his pod “The Killers of Eden.” Show Notes: -Eden Killer Whale Museum

The Whale Tales Podcast is back with another amazing guest Joëlle De Weerdt from Association ELI-S who is here to tell us all about humpbacks in Nicaragua and the research she is doing on them for her PhD. If you want to hear us loose our minds about humpbacks (again, probably not for the last […]

Super exciting episode this month with an incredible guest Erin Gless, executive director of Pacific Whale Watch Association! We dive deep (fun puns!) into the history and mission of the PWWA and the work it does in the Salish Sea plus TWO Fun Flipper Facts!???? Show Notes: Pacific Whale Watch Association: https://www.pacificwhalewatchassociation.com/ PWWA Social Media […]

Dolphin filled episode this month – we’ve got dolphins facts and more dolphins facts and a dolphin story and dolphin themed call to action. It’s the only way we know how to celebrate Dolphin Awareness Month! Show Notes: –Lauryn Fly Instagram –Behavioural laterality in foraging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) by Kaplan et al. –The Life […]

We are back with another mailbag episode answering questions that were asked by you! Show Notes: -Perucetus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perucetus -Podcast episodes with notes on become marine biologists and/or featuring marine biologists: https://whale-tales.org/podcast/episode-032-community-science/ https://whale-tales.org/podcast/episode-015-killer-whale-research/https://whale-tales.org/podcast/episode-013-the-story-of-us/ -Best marine biology universities (western centric): https://gyanberry.com/blog/best-global-universities-for-marine-biology-in-2022-2023/ -A Conversation with “Twain”: https://www.earth.com/news/scientists-have-20-minute-conversation-with-a-humpback-whale-named-twain/, https://peerj.com/articles/16349/ -A Surprise Whale https://whale-tales.org/a-surprise-whale-6-23

Happy 2024! We are kicking the year off with a journal club (that you may have already heard if you are a patron of ours) on the paper “Harassment and killing of porpoises (“phocoenacide”) by fish-eating Southern Resident killer Whales (Orcinus orca)” by Giles et al, plus a handful of clips from our friends! Content […]

Welcome back to the Whale Tales Podcast! Today we are joined by Olivia Brodhurst and Crystal Lacey to talk all about the Whitsundays and the East Australian Humpbacks you can find there! Show Notes: Whales of the Whitsundays: https://www.tourismwhitsundays.com.au/blog/whales-in-the-whitsundays/ Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority: https://www2.gbrmpa.gov.au/learn/animals/whales-and-dolphins World Cetacean Alliance: https://worldcetaceanalliance.org/ Whitsundays Whale Heritage Area Candidacy: […]

For this months episode of the Whale Tales Podcast we talked to Emily Cunningham, marine biologist and conservationist  about her research, Humpback community science in the UK and so many other things – it was amazing and we are so excited to share it with you! Show Notes: -Emily’s Website: https://emilycunningham.co.uk/ -Motion for the Ocean: […]