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 to find out how!



Show Notes:



– @trevorabranch.bsky.social‬– @bluewhalenews.bsky.social‬



-Why Do Baleen Whales Migrate by Corkeron and Connor, 2006: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1748-7692.1999.tb00887.x



-Fight or flight: antipredator strategies of baleen whales by Ford and Reeves, 2008: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2907.2008.00118.x



-Long Awaited Blue Whale Encounter: https://whale-tales.org/long-awaited-blue-whale-encounter/



-Head to our Patreon to listen to an extra story and call to action: patreon.com/whaletales

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 paper: Josh D. McInnes et al, Evidence for an Oceanic Population of Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) in Offshore Waters of California and Oregon, Aquatic Mammals (2024)



-Read the phys.org article about it: https://phys.org/news/2024-03-orcas-scars-left-cookiecutter-sharks.amp



-All our Killer Whale Whale Tales: https://whale-tales.org/category/dolphins/killer-whale/



–Elizabeth’s Whale Tales



-Birthday Orcas: https://whale-tales.org/birthday-orcas-6-24/

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



https://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/4732



https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09524622.2018.1555716



https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article-abstract/118/5/3346/897543/Source-of-the-North-Pacific-boing-sound-attributed?redirectedFrom=fulltext



https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article-abstract/109/6/3038/547831/Localization-and-visual-verification-of-a-complex



More here and here.



-Minke Whale stories: https://whale-tales.org/category/whales/minke-whale/



-The Naming of Minke Whales: https://whale-tales.org/the-naming-of-things-minke-whale/



-A Memorable Minke Whale Experience: https://whale-tales.org/a-memorable-minke-whale-experience-2016/

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 the coast on New York and New Jersey (and trying to figure out where the heck they came from!) as well as all the other super cool cetaceans and marine life they see.🐬🦈🐢



Show Notes:



-Gotham Whale’s Website: gothamwhale.org-Their sightings program, Wanted: gothamwhale.org/wanted



-Instagram: @gothamwhale



-Danielle’s Instagram: @njwhalegirl



-Chris’s Instagram: @chrisstlawrence-Danielle wanted us to shout out @jerseyshorewhalewatch and @american_princess_cruises



-Humpback Mugging: https://whale-tales.org/humpback-mugging/



-Rare Encounter with North Atlantic Right Whales: https://whale-tales.org/rare-encounter-with-north-atlantic-right-whales-5-24/

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 the gastrointestinal tract of the bottlenose dolphin: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10941539/



-An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59575939-an-immense-world



-Face to Face with a Killer as Disabled Orca Returns to Port Elizabeth: https://mype.co.za/face-to-face-with-a-killer-as-disabled-orca-returns-to-port-elizabeth/



-A Huge Fin Whale With Severe Scoliosis Was Filmed Swimming Off Spanish Coast: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-huge-fin-whale-with-severe-scoliosis-was-filmed-swimming-off-spanish-coast



-Vertebral column malformations in New Zealand delphinids with areview of cases world wide: https://www.aquaticmammalsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/26-01_Berghan.pdf



-Defining a common language to assess external deformities in free-ranging cetaceans: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mam.12318



-Hooray for Monterey! https://whale-tales.org/hooray-for-monterey-1013/



-The Darker Side of Dolphins: https://whale-tales.org/the-darker-side-of-dolphins-209/



-Cranial Differences between Freshwater Amazon River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) and Saltwater Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.452.5



-World River Dolphin Day podcast episode: https://whale-tales.org/podcast/world-river-dolphin-day/



-Cetacean Species in the Gulf of Mexico: https://www.fws.gov/doiddata/dwh-ar-documents/876/DWH-AR0106040.pdf



-A Dwarf Form of Killer Whale in Antarctica: Show more...