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Episode 079 – Dolphin Awareness Month Mailbag

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2025/03/26

We are back with another mailbag episode (a dolphinny one to celebrate Dolphin Awareness Month🐬) answering questions that were asked by you! Thank you to tsuchidayosh.bsky.social, samgree.n, bluetideproject, Eleanor Thom, lindsyvg.bsky.social‬, astrapionte, patrick0fveraa, amendoza3090, meganndautism, Perri, Autumn and Dorothy for sending us your questions! Show Notes: -A Very Rare Type D Sighting: https://whale-tales.org/a-very-rare-type-d-sighting-26-1-25/ -Vascularization of […]

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Episode 078 – PacMam

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2025/02/26

This month on the Whale Tales Podcast we welcomed Dr. Cindy Elliser and Kat White from Pacific Mammal Research who tell us all about Harbour Porpoises in the Salish Sea including what they’ve found in their incredible long term work (which you can read about it their latest publication!). While we do get pretty detailed […]

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Episode 077 – Project Jonah

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2025/01/29

We are very excited this month to welcome Daren Grover, the General Manager of Project Jonah in New Zealand! Daren talks to us about marine mammal strandings and what Project Jonah does to help stranded cetaceans plus a wonderful overview about the whales and dolphins found in New Zealand. Show Notes: Website: https://www.projectjonah.org.nz/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectjonah/ […]

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Episode 076 – Jackie Hildering

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2024/12/18

We are very excited to welcome Jackie Hildering, Co-Founder and Education & Communications Director for the Marine Education and Research Society, aka The Marine Detective to the pod this month! Join us for a wonderful and thoughtful conversation about Humpbacks in BC, research and community building. Show Notes: -The Marine Detective website: https://themarinedetective.com/ -The Marine […]

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Episode 075 – Stephanie Stack

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2024/11/27

We are back this month with a super exciting episode featuring the incredible humpback researcher Stephanie Stack! She joins us to talk about research on Humpback Whales as well as her now very famous article “An observation of sexual behavior between two male Humpback Whales.” Full note in Marine Mammal Science: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.13119 Photographers of Humpback […]

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Episode 074-Summer Report 2024

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2024/10/30

We are joined by returning guest Ashley Keegan this month to hear all about the whale watching season in the Salish Sea in 2024! (plus special guests Judith Scott and WhaleWise pop in to tell us an amazing story from earlier this fall) Show Notes” -Read Ashley’s Whale Tales -An Encounter with an Entangled Humpback: […]

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World River Dolphin Day

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2024/10/24

Surprise! We are popping into your feeds today with an extra special episode to celebrate World River Dolphin Day (today!) We were joined by friend of the pod, Emily Cunningham who is now the River Dolphin Conservation Lead at WWF and is here to talk all things river dolphins, especially the threats that they face […]

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Episode 073-North Pacific Right Whales

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2024/09/25

Just a bunch of whale nerds this month on the Whale Tales Podcast – we are joined by Kate Hruby and Kevin Campion from Save the North Pacific Right Whales to talk all things North Pacific Right Whales and learn more (as much as we can?) about these rare, sneaky whales. Show Notes: -Save the […]

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Episode 072-Oops We Did It Again: Oops All Stories...

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2024/08/28

Break out your Britney because we did it again! It’s another Oops All Stories episode featuring incredible stories from all over the world (and THREE new species for the library!) from some amazing Storytellers! Thanks to Vanessa: https://www.instagram.com/vaneprigo/ Selby: https://www.instagram.com/selbywilko/ Sigrún: https://www.instagram.com/shelguwildlife/ Judith: https://www.instagram.com/judith_scott_photography/ Sara: https://www.instagram.com/frostythezoologist/ and https://x.com/YukonFrost

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Episode 071-Peale’s Dolphins in the Falkland Islands

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2024/07/31

The Whale Tales Podcast is back this month with two incredible guests! We welcomed researchers Caroline Weir and Morgan Martin to the pod to talk about their paper “Peale’s dolphins (Lagenorhynchus australis) are acoustic mergers between dolphins and porpoises” (as featured in this month’s Patreon Journal Club!) as well as all things Peale’s Dolphins! We […]

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Episode 070-Gladis

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2024/06/26

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 are wrapping things up with the currently very famous Gladis-or should we say Gladises? Show Notes: – Killer whales […]

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Episode 069-Port and Starboard

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2024/06/19

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 […]

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Episode 068-Old Thom

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2024/06/12

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 […]

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Episode 067-Old Tom

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2024/06/05

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

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Episode 066 – Joëlle De Weerdt & Humpbacks in Nicaragua

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2024/05/29

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 […]

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Episode 065-Erin Gless from Pacific Whale Watch...

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2024/04/24

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 […]

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Episode 064-Dolphin Fact Off Part 2

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2024/03/27

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 […]

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Episode 063-2024 Mailbag

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2024/02/28

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):

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Episode 062-Journal Club Plus!

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2024/01/31

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 […]

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Episode 061-Humpbacks in the Whitsundays

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2023/12/27

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

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