Welcome to Orca Awareness Month 2022! We are celebrating Killer Whales this month by releasing mini episodes each week about the ecotypes off the coast of BC. First up: Offshore Killer Whales! Show Notes: Whale Tales Merch

We are back and are (finally!) talking about Dwarf and Pygmy Sperm Whales! Show Notes: –Cascadia Research in Hawaii –The First Time I Saw a Sperm Whale

We are back and are answering kids cetacean questions! Show Notes: –The Naming of Things: Whale –8 year old discovered whale poop

We are celebrating Dolphin Awareness Month with our first ever journal club discussing the paper Decades-long social memory in bottlenose dolphin” by Jason N. Bruck Show Notes: –The full paper –Jason’s website –Individualized Whistle Contours in Bottlenose Dolphins –My First Trip with Wild Dolphins

We are celebrating the Olympics this month with our first ever Whale Olympics! –Dolphin Olympics, Episode 12 -Deepest Diving Mammals –Humpbacks Bubble Net Feeding –Arctic Whales in Greenland –Vote for Miss Congeniality!

We are back! We are starting off the new year with a mailbag episode-filled with questions submitted by you! Show Notes –Follow the new Whale Tales Instagram account –A Banner Year for the Salish Sea -Signature Whistles in Cetaceans –James Bartley –Photographer in the mouth of a Bryde’s Whales –Killer Whale Interactions with other Marine […]

We are joined with the amazing Caitlin Birdsall to talk about the magic of community/citizen science especially when it comes to cetaceans! -Do our Seventh Anniversary Survey –Marine Education and Research Society –Whale Report app -BC Cetaceans Sighting Network –Cetaceans Sightings Networks across the world –Northern Resident’s at a Rubbing Beach

We are joined by special guest Ashley Keegan this month to hear all about the whale watching season in the Salish Sea this year! Show Notes: –Whale Watching Guidelines –Sustainable Halloween Candy –Halloween Waste Recycling in BC

We are back with a porpoise this month???? You guessed it-we are talking all about those tiny cetaceans-porpoises! Show Notes –Why it might not be too late for the Vaquita –Porpoises are most closely related to Belugas and Narwhals than Dolphins –An Incredible Encounter with Dolphins and Porpoises –Porpoise Conservation Society –Ocean Wise Seafood

We dive way back in time this episode to explore Cetacean Evolution! Show Notes –From Land to Water: the Origin of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises | Evolution: Education and Outreach | Full Text (biomedcentral.com) –The Evolutionary History of Whales – Cetacean Evolution Part 1 – YouTube –The Walking Whales (from Land to Water in Eight […]