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Whale Tales Podcast

A monthly podcast bringing you stories, news, fun facts, and more about whales, dolphins and porpoises.

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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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Episode 060-Emily Cunningham

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2023/11/29

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: […]

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Episode 059-Summer Report 2023

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2023/10/25

We are joined by returning guest Ashley Keegan this month to hear all about the whale watching season in the Salish Sea this year! Show Notes: –Ashley’s Stories

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Episode 058-Harbor Porpoise Aggregations in the...

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2023/09/27

Journal Club is back! And so are these little guys – who are everywhere apparently – we are talking about Harbor Porpoise Aggregations in the Salish Sea by Dave Anderson et al. Show Notes –Full paper –Back on the Water with Grey Whales. –Diving behaviour in Harbour Porpoises –Tea Bag Ghosts (video)

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Episode 057 – Baleen

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2023/08/30

Welcome back to another episode of the Whale Tales Podcast! Following up on our Cetacean teeth episode we are taking a look at the other set of cetaceans – The Baleen Whales! Show Notes: -The Naming of Things: The Disorder of the Order of Whale Names: https://whale-tales.org/the-naming-of-things-the-order-of-whale-names/ –A Summer in Húsavík, the European capital of […]

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World Krill Day

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2023/08/11

Surprise! We are popping into your feeds today to help celebrate the second ever #WorldKrillDay with a special episode all about those lil guys who have a big impact – krill! Specifically today, Antarctic krill. 🦐 Join us and our incredible guests as we learn all about krill and the super important role they play […]

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Episode 056-Cetacean Teeth

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2023/07/26

Welcome back to another episode of the Whale Tales Podcast! This month we are talking all things Odontocetes -or rather the chompers that gave these Toothed Whales their name! 🦷 Show Notes: -The Naming of Things: The Disorder of the Order of Whale Names: https://whale-tales.org/the-naming-of-things-the-order-of-whale-names/ -The Naming of Things: The Ginkgo Toothed Whale: https://whale-tales.org/the-naming-of-things-ginkgo-toothed-beaked-whale/ -Development […]

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Episode 055-Oops All Stories!

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2023/06/28

Just in case our Orca Action Month mini eps weren’t special enough for you we have an extra special super fun episode today (maybe our fav of all time?) – that’s right it’s Oops All Stories! 😆🎉 The Stories: -An Evening Encounter with Type B Gerlache Orcas in Antarctica: https://whale-tales.org/an-evening-encounter-with-type-b-gerlache-orcas-in-antarctica-3-1-23/ -Christmas Eve Orcas: https://whale-tales.org/christmas-eve-orcas-24-12-22/ -Incredible […]

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Episode 054-Galapagos Orcas

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2023/06/26

We are back, celebrating Orca Action Month with a short episode this week discussing the Galapagos Orca community.

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Episode 053-Norwegian and Icelandic Orcas

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2023/06/14

It’s Orca Action Month! We are celebrating Killer Whales this month with a mini episode each week looking at specific orca ecotypes or communities – this week we are discussing Norwegian and Icelandic Orcas! Show Notes: -Norwegian Orca Catalogue: https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/The_Norwegian_Orca_ID-Catalogue_2016_Version_2_/4205226/4 -Icelandic Orca Catalogue: http://orcaguardians.org/orca-id-catalogues/ -Krisztina’s Whale Tales: https://whale-tales.org/category/storytellers/krisztina/

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Episode 052-The West Coast Community

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2023/06/07

Happy Orca Action Month! We are celebrating all month long on the Whale Tales Podcast by discussing different ecotypes each week and we are kicking things off with the West Coast Community in Scotland Show Notes: -The Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust: https://hwdt.org/ -“Dopey Dick”: https://hwdt.org/news/2016/4/1/famous-killer-whale-from-1977-dopey-dick-never-left-the-neighborhood

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Episode 051-Type D Killer Whale Genomes

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2023/05/24

Journal club is back! We are talking about the new paper “Type D” killer whale genomes reveal long-term small population size and low genetic diversity from Dr. Andrew Foote et al. Show Notes: Read the full paper! https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/114/2/94/7086686 More about Dr. Foote https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7384-1634

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Episode 050-Cetacean Vocalizations

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2023/04/26

We are back with Episode 50 of the Whale Tales Podcast! And to celebrate we are talking all things cetacean vocalizations. Show Notes: -Singing Humpbacks: https://whale-tales.org/singing-humpbacks-2-22/ -Specialized Sounds in Cetacean Communications: https://dosits.org/animals/advanced-topics-animals/specialized-sounds-in-cetacean-communication/

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Episode 049-Dolphin Fact Off

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2023/03/29

It’s Dolphin Awareness Month🐬🐬🐬 We are celebrating with a Dolphin Fun Flipper Fact off! Show Notes: -Dynamics of the Aerial Maneuvers of Spinner: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/209/4/590/16484/Dynamics-of-the-aerial-maneuvers-of-spinner -Behavior of dusky dolphins foraging on the deep‐scattering layer in Kaikoura Canyon, New Zealand: https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.4780714 -Lords of the Rings: Mud ring feeding by bottlenose dolphins in a Caribbean estuary revealed from

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