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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

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 time) this is the episode for you!







Show Notes:







–Association ELI-S Website







–Instagram







–Facebook







–Joëlle’s Instagram

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

Threads: @pacificwhalewatch

Twitter/X: @ThePWWA







PWWA 2023 Sightings & Sentinel Actions Report







A Unique Humpback Encounter: 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.







–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.







-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:







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): 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 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: 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: 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: https://whale-tales.org/gnarly-one-whale-two-numbers/







-Salish Sea Stormwater Monitoring: https://stormwater-salishsea.org/ IG: @salishseastormwater







-Adopt a Catch Basin (City of Vancouver): https://vancouver.adoptacity.co/