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 Handles: Facebook: Pacific Whale Watch Association Instagram: @pacificwhalewatch Threats: @pacificwhalewatch Twitter/X: @ThePWWA PWWA 2023 Sightings & Sentinel Actions Report A Unique Humpback Encounter: tales.org/a-unique-humpback-encounter-10-19/">https://whale-tales.org/a-unique-humpback-encounter-10-19/

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. –Herzing-1997.pdf">The Life History of Free-Ranging Atlantic Spotted Dolphins (Stenella frontalis): Age Classes, Color Phases, and Female Reproduction by Denise L. Herzing –Behavioral and anatomical evidence for electroreception in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) by Fersen et al. tales.org/amazing-encounters-with-amazon-river-dolphins-5-23">-Amazing Encounters with Amazon River Dolphins

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: tales.org/podcast/episode-032-community-science/">https://whale-tales.org/podcast/episode-032-community-science/ tales.org/podcast/episode-015-killer-whale-research/">https://whale-tales.org/podcast/episode-015-killer-whale-research/tales.org/podcast/episode-013-the-story-of-us/">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 tales.org/?p=17021">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 Warning: please note our journal club discussion entails talk of porpoise harassment and killing. This discussion runs from 1:56-23:46. Show Notes -Full paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mms.13073 -Krisztina’s stories from Norway: tales.org/category/storytellers/krisztina/">https://whale-tales.org/category/storytellers/krisztina/ -Super mega pod of dolphins: https://news.mongabay.com/2013/02/photo-pod-of-100000-dolphins-spotted-off-california-coast/ -Gnarly’s Return to the Salish Sea: tales.org/?p=16843">https://whale-tales.org/gnarlys-return-to-the-salish-sea-12-23 -Five Star Whales: https://www.5starwhales.com/ IG: @fivestarwhales -Gnarly: One Whale, Two Numbers: tales.org/gnarly-one-whale-two-numbers/">https://whale-tales.org/gnarly-one-whale-two-numbers/ -Salish Sea Stormwater Monitoring: salishsea.org/">https://stormwater-salishsea.org/ IG: @salishseastormwater -Adopt a Catch Basin (City of Vancouver): https://vancouver.adoptacity.co/

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: https://www.tourismwhitsundays.com.au/whale-heritage/ Eye on the Reef App: https://www2.gbrmpa.gov.au/help/eye-on-the-reef Whales of the Whitsundays Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/332062545807962/ Whitsunday Environmental: https://whitsundayenvironmental.com.au/ Little Fish Tourism Development: https://www.littlefishtourism.com.au/

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: https://lgacoastalsig.com/motion-for-the-ocean/ -Follow Emily on Twitter: @EG_Cunningham Instagram/Threads: @marinebiologylife -My Favourite Cetacean Encounter:tales.org/?p=16158">https://whale-tales.org/my-favourite-cetacean-encounter—2010

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: –tales.org/category/storytellers/ashley/">Ashley’s Stories

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 –tales.org/back-on-the-water-with-grey-whales-11-9-23/">Back on the Water with Grey Whales. –Diving behaviour in Harbour Porpoises –Tea Bag Ghosts (video)

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: tales.org/the-naming-of-things-the-order-of-whale-names/">https://whale-tales.org/the-naming-of-things-the-order-of-whale-names/ –tales.org/a-summer-in-husavik-the-european-capital-of-whale-watching---2018">A Summer in Húsavík, the European capital of whale watching! – 2018 –tales.org/animals-in-distress/">Animals in Distress Resource Page

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 in the ecosystem, not only in Antarctica, but all over the world, the threats they are now facing and what you can do to help. Thank you so much to Pew Charitable Trusts and Barbara Cvrkel for coordinating and making this amazing podcast happen and to our incredible guests, Dr. Kim Bernard, Jen Walsh, Nicole Bransome, and Philippe and Ashlan Cousteau for nerding out with us about krill! Show Notes: -Why do Krill Matter?: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2021/10/04/solutions-to-protect-antarcticas-keystone-species -Krill carbon cycle animation: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/video/2020/antarctic-krill-carbon-conveyor-belt-of-the-southern-ocean -Notes from World Krill Day 2022: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2022/07/15/first-world-krill-day-celebrates-key-to-southern-ocean-food-web -Sevoir Wellness: http://seavoir.com/ Podcast edited by Lindsay Curtis