Ocean Society

L119 was born recently to 25 year old L77 and is the second documented calf for this whale. The first was seen in 2010 for just one day. L...

Balcomb wants to know if young orca was bombed!

In cases where dolphin pods joined and swam together, the researchers found, such meetings were preceded by one dolphin in the group produci...

Neptune Canada

Slick / J16 was born in 1972 and gave birth to a new baby in Puget Sound on December 17th, 2011. Slick is mother to J26 / Mike, J36 / Aiki, ...

If Canadian representatives at the UN climate change summit in Durban, South Africa won’t commit to the Kyoto Protocol and contribute to glo...

Right now, the Japanese whaling fleet is hunting thousands of majestic whales -- guarded by a 30-million-dollar security force paid from dis...

Experts look at killer whales salmon diet with eye on limiting the fishery A cross-border panel will determine if the salmon fishery should ...

An application to site a new open net-cage salmon farm in the waters of Clayoquot Sound, in the heart of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, is bein...

K27's new male calf K44 was spotted off San Juan Island on July 7, newest member to the Southern Resident endangered killer whale commun...

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Gooseneck Barnacles, Pollicipes ploymerus Aggregate Anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima

New regulations to protect killer whales in inland waters of Washington State from the effects of various vessel activities. 1. vessels must...

The 60 year old killer whale Ruffles/J1 was last seen on Novermber 21st, 2010. He would travel with Granny/J2 (100 years old) who has been ...

John Ford and colleagues were observing the whales, they noticed them engaging in feeding behaviour. Immediately following this they discove...

The Social-10 objective is to estimate the risk and minimize the impact of human sound and military sonar. It includes suction-cup tagging,...

L54 and L108 L5 has a new calf L117, increasing the L pod population to 42 individuals. L pod - 42 K pod - 20 J pod - 28 Making a total of 9...

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Sea otter - Hotsprings Cove, Tofino BC Sea otters off the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, have decreased drastically over the past 15 years. Tran...

Missing and presumed dead are: - L114, new calf born to L77 in February 2010, missing when the whales returned in June. - L73/Flash, a male ...

Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society: Greenland Defies IWC Rules by Authorizing Humpback Whaling before Hunt is Legal Greenland obtained a...

ID - white patch left side Times Colonist

There are five species of Pacific salmon that die after spawning; Chinook, Chum, Coho, Sockeye, and Pink. Salmon return to their natal strea...

Parliament Buildings, May 8th @ 4pm Threats: Sea Lice - Salmon aquaculture is prohibited in Alaska for economic and environmental reasons. B...

BC First Nations and environmental groups are calling on the federal government to implement a permanent ban on oil and gas development and ...

The International Whaling Commission has just unveiled a proposal to legalize commercial whale hunting for the first time in 24 years. Now,...

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The increase of mean durations of discrete calls demonstrated here indicates that the Southern Residents are making a behavioral adjustment ...

Species and stock identification of prey consumed by endangered southern resident killer whales in their summer range ABSTRACT: Recovery pla...

There are a total of 14862 recordings, each of which is 45 minutes long for a total of 668790 minutes of audio. If you listened for 8 hours...

First recordings of Luna, discovering him making southern resident killer whale discrete calls in Nootka Sound, British Columbia 2003. ( se...

Dolphins have long been recognised as among the most intelligent of animals but many researchers had placed them below chimps, which some st...

An earthquake in the Ionian Sea occurred on Nov 3 and possibly ruptured the sinuses of a pod of sperm whales. These air sacs are necessar...

Killer Whale Field Projects

- Courious killer whale investigate snorkelers. - Killer whales understand the behavioural consequences of sharks.

polaris Southern resident killer whale Star/J46 was born to 16 year old Polaris/J28 on November 11th. Five babies have been born to this po...

It is the first photo-identification catalog of tropical pelagic killer whales. 195 individual killer were identified in the eastern tropica...

Conservation groups based in Alaska have accused the Obama administration of repeating the mistakes of George Bush after it gave the conditi...

In April 2009, COSEWIC re-assessed the status of the Offshore Killer Whale, changing it from special concern to threatened; it will now ente...

The offshore killer whale is a marine mammal and is under the responsibility of the federal government. The Species at Risk Act (SARA, Sect...

The bald eagle historically ranged throughout North America and are now only found in Alaska, Canada, Florida, and the Northwest America. Th...

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