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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 085 – Ecotoxicology with Dr. Anaïs Remili

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2025/09/24

Today on the Whale Tales Podcast we are chatting with Dr. Anaïs Remili, an ecotoxicologist. She shares about her research in contaminants in cetaceans, currently focused on Killer Whales and while that part might be as upbeat as some of our other topics, Anaïs also talks about making potions, seal poo and a whole lot […]

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Episode 084 – Nick Freymueller & Bowhead Whales

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2025/08/27

Super nerdy episode this month! We sit down paleoecologist and biogeographer with Nick Freymueller to talk Bowhead Whales, Arctic fossils, his research on how species respond to climate change and many other nerdy things. Cue up the theme to Jurassic Park and let’s dive right in! Show Notes -21st Century Sea Ice Loss Will Upend […]

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Episode 083 – Trevor A. Branch

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2025/07/30

We are very excited to welcome Trevor Branch to the podcast this month. Trevor is a Professor at University of Washington who runs models and does research on a number of things including Blue Whales. We chat Blue Whales and all kinds of whales – and how they are all ruled by Orcas? Join us […]

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Episode 082 – Killer Whales of the North East Pacific

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2025/06/25

Happy Orca Action Month! We are back this month and talking about – you guessed it – orcas! To celebrate Orca Month we are taking this episode to discuss the Killer Whales in the North East Pacific and how they are designated and also why? WHYYYYYYYY (prepare for some rants!) Show Notes: -Fun Flipper Fact […]

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Episode 081-Minke Whales

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2025/05/28

We are back and are finally covering Minke Whales (how have we not talked about these lil guys yet?!) Put on your mittens and grab your lightsabers (this will all make sense we promise!) as we dive right in. Show Notes: -Minke Whale Unusual Mortality Event along the Atlantic Coast: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-life-distress/2017-2025-minke-whale-unusual-mortality-event-along-atlantic-coast -Minke Whale Vocals: https://minkewhaleproject.org/behaviour/vocalisations […]

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Episode 080 – Gotham Whale

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2025/04/30

The Whale Tales Podcast is back this month (celebrating our sixth anniversary!) with more amazing guests – Danielle Brown the Director of Research as well as Chris St Lawrence, Communications and Outreach Lead from Gotham Whale in New York. We discuss their work with Gotham Whale and their Wanted program, matching and IDing Humpbacks off […]

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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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