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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 · 19h
Long Awaited Encounter with the T02C’s. Read the full story here: buff.ly/MTqJoHU
Photo by Aly
This is an encounter from 2025
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Kate :verigold: @dolphinseeker.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h
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.
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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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:
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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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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! 👀

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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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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 2d
My First (Whale) Mugging. Read the full story here: buff.ly/2nYxO6J
Photo by Kathryn
This is an encounter from 2017.
#WhaleTales #humpback
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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 3d
Rottnest Island Orca. Read the full story here: buff.ly/CfTGfpQ
This is an encounter from 2019'
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Rottnest Island Orca – 5/10/19
The Rottnest Island Orca Pod have been sighted regularly over the southern Humpback migration this season. There is a lot to learn about this Pod as we know of and have ID’s on the North West…
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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 3d
Orcas Hunting Turtles. Read the full story here: buff.ly/Mt2fSxZ
Photo by Brittany
This is an encounter from 2025
#WhaleTales #KillerWhales
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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 3d
An Incredible First Trip to BC. Read the full story here: buff.ly/gTq610E
This is an encounter from 2023
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An Incredible First Trip to BC -10/23
I was out with Ocean Ecoventures, with the wonderful Gary Sutton, on a tour where we went up into the Gulf Islands. After encountering several Bigg’s killer whale groups in the Strait of Georgia, a…
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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 4d
A Unique Humpback Encounter. Read the full story here: buff.ly/ufK3lJL
Photo by Erin
This is an encounter from 2019
#WhaleTales #whales @pacificwhalewatchassociation.com
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 4d
Jem Cresswell’s striking whale images – in pictures www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🦑🌎🧪
Jem Cresswell’s striking whale images – in pictures
The photographer spent five years documenting humpback whales in the waters surrounding the Tonga Trench
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Whale and Dolphin Conservation (International) @whalesorg.bsky.social · 4d
Happy #WorldAnimalDay! We're celebrating every species, from the tiniest creatures to the giants of the ocean. Because of you, we’re able to make real change for the rights, welfare, & protection of whales, dolphins, & porpoises. Let’s keep showing the world just how incredible they are.
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Pacific Whale Watch Association @pacificwhalewatchassociation.com · 4d
Bigg's killer whale T101A "Rush" showed off his MASSIVE pectoral flippers during a spyhop last week. 😲 Naturalist Melisa Pinnow of San Juan Excursions got the shot.
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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 4d
Back Offshore. Read the full story here: buff.ly/auMZuZk
Photo by @birdingdad.bsky.social
This is an encounter from 2025
#WhaleTales #BottlenoseDolphins
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Orca Behavior Institute @orcabehaviorinstitute.org · 4d
Like life behind the curtain, life under the waves is one we're never, ever gonna know, but one thing's for sure: it's beautiful, it's rapturous, it's frightening.

Salish Sea Tour shirts disappear like tiny bubbles in champagne, but get on the wait list for more here:

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The Life of a Showgirl It's Rapturous Edition with a spyhopping killer whale The Life of a Showgirl It's Frightening Edition with a lunging killer whale The Life of a Showgirl It's Beautiful Edition with a breaching killer whale Salish Sea Tour T-Shirts - Limited Quantities will be available. See the link in the post to get on the wait list.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 4d
Which whale species did I see? Leatherwood et al. (1982, p. 10) is hard to beat...
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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 4d
Cetacean Highway. Read the full story here: buff.ly/x5r5Pg1
Photo by Krisztina
This is an encounter from 2025
#WhaleTales #WhaleWatching
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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 5d
Epic Day with the T036A's and T065B's Steller Sea Lion Take Down!! Read the full story here: buff.ly/2RnrKhM
Photo by Ashley
This is an encounter from 2016.
#WhaleTales #Orca
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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 5d
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Humpback calves need 38 times more energy after birth than in womb
The energy required for newborn humpback calves to grow after birth is 38 times greater than what they needed inside the womb according to research from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiʻi Institut...
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Art D. @artd.bsky.social · 5d
Don't worry, @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social I did one for you too
Taylor swift's new album the life of a showgirl but she has a gar's head and it's the life of a showgar.
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Art D. @artd.bsky.social · 5d
Best I could do
Taylor Swift album cover from The Life Of A Showgirl but instead of Taylor there is a whale shark coming straight at you, mouth agape and the title is The Life of a Megamama Supreme. and there's lots of rhinestones and red feathery stuff.
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