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A place where anyone can come to connect, share & save their #WhaleTales Created in 2014, we have 1500+ cetacean stories. Check out the Whale Tales Podcast🎧🐳🐋🐬 linktr.ee/whaletalesorg

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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · Dec 8

#WhaleTales is a living library of cetacean stories, a place where naturalists, researchers, & whale enthusiasts alike can come together to connect, share, and save their whale tales. Created in 2014, we have almost 1500 stories featuring species from across the globe – submitted by people like you!

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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 29m

Northern Residents in Howe Sound. Read the full story here: buff.ly/7XKwxms
Photo by @crphotography.bsky.social
This is an encounter from 2025
#WhaleTales #KillerWhales

Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 2h

Orcas & a Rainbow. Read the full story here: buff.ly/6cuVgzO
Photo by Krisztina
This is an encounter from 2025
#WhaleTales #KillerWhale

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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 6h

Super Playful Young Bigg's (Transient) Orcas! Read the full story here: buff.ly/2E54VwU
Photo by Ashley
This is an encounter from 2015.
#WhaleTales #orca

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Kate :verigold: @dolphinseeker.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

Sahibganj’s Ganga set to become Jharkhand’s first Dolphin Sanctuary https://www.thestatesman.com/india/sahibganjs-ganga-set-to-become-jharkhands-first-dolphin-sanctuary-1503497729.html 🐬 #cetaceans #marinemammals #marinelife #marinebiology #dolphins #Science

Sahibganj’s Ganga set to become Jharkhand’s first Dolphin Sanctuary - The Statesman

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has approved a proposal to establish the state’s first Dolphin Sanctuary along the Ganga in Sahibganj, marking a significant step in river wildlife conservation.

www.thestatesman.com

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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 1d

The T087 and T100B1 Show! Read the full story here: buff.ly/2Qr8mjr
Photo by Janine
This is an encounter from 2017.
#WhaleTales #orca

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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 1d

Whales often come closer to boats during encounters. The company involved in this encounter followed all whale watching guidelines and engines were off.

Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 1d

T036A’s and T065B’s Munching on Seals! Read the full story here: buff.ly/NLcyhDb
Photo by Gary
This is an encounter from 2016
#WhaleTales #biggs

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Oceana @oceana.bsky.social · 1d

Spain has designated FIVE new marine protected areas!

After years of advocacy, Oceana celebrates this win for marine life and coastal communities—and now pushes to ensure these areas are properly managed and free from destructive activities like trawling. 🌎

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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 1d

Ducks (or in this case, Orcas) fly together!

Check out our latest Journal Club on "Skittish Males in High Latitudes: Complex Social and Acoustic Response of Adult Male Sperm Whales When Harassed by Orcas" over on our Patreon at the $5 and up levels!
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#WhaleTales #WhaleTalesPodcast

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Maevatiana N. Ratsimbazafindranahaka @rmaevatiana.bsky.social · 1d

🎥 Check out the linked video too! youtube.com/watch?v=Fyw6...
#HumpbackWhales #Tagging
#MarineScience #WhaleResearch #MarMam

What if we could zoom out and see the whole scene? | 3D Humpback Whale Nursing Behavior

YouTube video by Maevatiana Nokoloina Ratsimbazafindranahaka

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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 2d

A Short But Amazing Encounter. Read the full story here: buff.ly/7f4y4eN
Video by Joaquin
This is an encounter from 2022
#WhaleTales #Humpback

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2d

The global whaling industry experienced a boom c. 1840-1950 as technology allowed whalers to hunt the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*.

Instead, they DROPPED exponentially.

Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.

Change in distribution and abundance of southern right whales. (A) Shows historical and contemporary wintering distributions (Figure 1 from Carroll et al., 2018), and (B) shows decline in abundance and subsequent recovery (solid line is the mean, dashed line shows upper and lower 95% CI). Modified Figure 1 from Jackson et al. (2008). Contemporary sightings are divided into regions where large aggregations are seen during winter: Argentina (ARG), Brazil (BZL), South Africa (SAF), southwest Australia (SWA), south central Australia (SCA), and New Zealand sub-Antarctic (NZSA) and regions where sightings are typically of small numbers of individuals per year. The large aggregations are IWC management units and correspond to historical whaling grounds, although another 5 whaling grounds show little sign of recovery. Summer feeding areas are poorly described and so not shown.

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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 3d

T087 Kills a Harbour Porpoise! Read the full story here: buff.ly/rViokxK
Photo by Janine
This is an encounter from 2017
#WhaleTales #orca

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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 3d

Whale Whale Whale, look what day it is.

#WhaleWednesday #spooktober

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Orca Behavior Institute @orcabehaviorinstitute.org · 3d

Here is another look at our September killer whale sightings stats throughout the Salish Sea! Do any of these numbers surprise you?

#whalesky #orcas

An infographic summary of unique killer whale sightings in the Salish Sea during September 2025, focusing on population-specific numbers as compiled by the Orca Behavior Institute

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 3d

#whalewednesday The spectacular early toothed whale Xenorophus sloanii from the Oligocene (~28 mya) of South Carolina! This is a critical transitional fossil, known from about a dozen skulls and partial skeletons. Read more about Xenorophus here on my blog: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-...

A black and white skeletal reconstruction of Xenorophus sloanii, and a pair of photos of the skull and neck vertebrae of the best known specimen in top and side view.

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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 4d

Long Awaited Encounter with the T02C’s. Read the full story here: buff.ly/MTqJoHU
Photo by Aly
This is an encounter from 2025
#WhaleTales #KillerWhale

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Kate :verigold: @dolphinseeker.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Spiral tusks, big square heads, strange pink skin: 10 weirdest dolphins and whales on the planet https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/weirdest-dolphins-whales 🐬 #cetaceans #marinemammals #marinelife #marinebiology #dolphins #whales #Science

Spiral tusks, big square heads, strange pink skin: 10 weirdest dolphins and whales on the planet | Discover Wildlife

From unicorn-like narwhals to pink river dolphins and whales with boxy skulls, the ocean is home to some truly bizarre-looking cetaceans.

www.discoverwildlife.com

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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 4d

A Foggy Day with J Pod! Read the full story here: buff.ly/co8DjWo
Photo by Janine
This is an encounter from 2020.
#WhaleTales #KillerWhale #SRKW

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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 4d

Anaïs brought some fascinating info with her to the Whale Tales Podcast this month and while a lot of it was disheartening, as always there are things you can do to help!
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#WhaleTales #WhaleTalesPodcast @anaisremili.bsky.social @whalescientists.bsky.social

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Orca Behavior Institute @orcabehaviorinstitute.org · 5d

Here's our September Salish Sea orca sightings map! For once it was a busy month not just on the Bigg's killer whale front, but for both Southern and Northern Residents as well!

Read all the details here:
www.orcabehaviorinstitute.org/sightings-ma...

#whalesky

A map of the Salish Sea with different colored dots indicating sightings of different populations of killer whales that were seen throughout September 2025

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Pacific Whale Watch Association @pacificwhalewatchassociation.com · 5d

Humpbacks are known to intervene during orca hunts. On Saturday, the T46B1s were craving seal for lunch while BCX1377 "Nike" was nearby. Nike positioned himself between the seal and the orcas, but in the end, his efforts were unsuccessful.

📷: Mollie Cameron, @whalewatchingbc.bsky.social

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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 5d

Big Mama and her Calf in the Strait of Georgia. Read the full story here: buff.ly/332q4Q0
Photo by Gary
This is an encounter from 2014.
#WhaleTales #humpback

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 5d

Did someone say it's take an octopus to work day?

Brilliant photos from @akwildlifefalmouth showing the extent of the octopus surge in the southwest. This Risso's dolphin seemed to be having fun 🐙

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Orca Behavior Institute @orcabehaviorinstitute.org · 6d

Before returning to our regular programming, we are enjoying our Release Party of a Showgirl weekend. Like many Swifties, we've been trying to figure out who each track on the new album is about, and I think we're on to something! 👀

Looking for a Salish Sea Tour shirt?
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Jokingly linking four tracks of Taylor Swift's new The Life of a Showgirl album to specific Bigg's killer whales

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