Whale Tales Podcast

Happy Orca Awareness Month! We’re celebrating with an extra podcast this month, featuring answers to orca related questions asked by YOU. Huge thank you to all who sent in questions!

We are back with an episode full of deep dives into Cetacean (namely Baleen Whales) feeding tactics! Lots of links this ep! Show Notes: –Feeding Strategies and Tactics –Grey Whale Suction Filter Feeding Video –How Baleen Whales Feed: The Biomechanics of Engulfment And Filtration –Blue Whale Lunge Feeding Video –Trap Feeding –Beaked Whale Stomachs –Looking […]

It’s the Whale Tales Podcast One Year Anniversary! We celebrate this episode and take a look back at how we came together as bffs and cetacean lovers

Happy Dolphin Awareness Month Everyone! There are just too many dolphin species to cover in one episode so instead we launched the first ever Dolphin Olympics! Show Notes –What You Can Do –So Many Dolphin Species –Help Maui’s Dolphins –An Absolutely Stunning Dolphin Encounter!

Things get a little racy this episode as we take a deep dive into the sexual behaviour of cetaceans! Show Notes: –What You Can Do –How to Tell Female and Male Cetaceans apart -Dara Orbach papers: Dolphin Clitoris , Everything You Wanted to Know About Cetacean Sex, Vagina Shape in Cetaceans –Getting to Know Whale Vaginas […]

Happy World Whale Day! To celebrate our everlasting love for whales (and dolphins and porpoises) we asked YOU for questions about cetaceans for our first ever mailbag episode! HUGE thank you to all who sent in questions! If yours was not answered, never fear, we have plans to do more mailbag episodes in the future […]

Episode 10 is here! Join us as we take a deep dive into some of the odder looking members of the whale family-Narwhals! Show Notes: –What You Can Do –Underdone Comics –Narwhal “Tusk” Mystery –Drone footage of Narwhals –London Attack, Narwhal “Tusk” –A Rare Baird’s Beaked Whale Sighting!  

Welcome to Episode Nine! This month we spread a little holiday cheer and talk about one of our favourite whale species-Beluga Whales Show Notes: –What You Can Do –Beluga Facts –Fun Facts about Belugas –Cool Beluga Facts –Amazing Encounter with Beluga Whales

This month we host our first ever guest – Derek Jang of the Porpoise Conversation Society! Show Notes: –What You Can Do –Porpoise Conversation Society –Vaquita Information  

Welcome to Episode 7! There may be only one day of October left but we are in full Spooktober mood this ep with discussion on whale falls and whale graveyards! Plus we say “spooooooooky” eleventy million times. Enjoy! Show Notes –What You Can Do –Nautilis Whale Fall Discovery –BBC Whale Fall –How Whale Falls Work […]

Welcome to episode 6! This week we celebrate the changing seasons and discuss cetacean migrations. Plus we feature another guest, Selena, who shares her encounters with T019B “Galiano” Show Notes: –What You Can Do –Butterfly migration video –Grey Whale Migration shifts a week –Analyzing ancient whale migration –Animal Migration –The Greatest Migration of a Humpback […]

Join us this episode for a report of the summer here in BC featuring stories about everyone’s favourite little grey whale – T46B1B “Tl’uk”! Show Notes (there are lots this week!): –What You Can Do –Animals in Distress –Ashley Keegan’s Whale Tales –DFO Marine Megafauna Survey –Grey Whales Unusual Mortality Event –Southern Resident Killer Whales […]

Welcome to episode four – our deep dive into Humpback Whales! Show Notes: –What You Can Do –Nature Finds a Way Star Trek IV: A Voyage Home –Plastic Free July Blogs – tips, tricks and suggestions to reduce your plastic use –How Humpback Whales Sing –Western and Eastern Australian Humpbacks sharing songs, more here –Humpback […]

We are back with this killer of an episode to celebrate Orca Awareness Month! Show Notes: –What You Can Do –Orca Awareness Month –Plastic Free July –Plastic Free July Blog Posts –Killer Whale Ecotypes –Killer Whale Ecotypes Poster –Killer Whales in Patagonia –The A30s in Johnstone Strait

We are back with this Mother of an episode-celebrating cetacean parenting techniques, some, kind of crazy, Fun Flipper Facts and a story about one very famous celebrity whale. Show Notes: –What You Can Do –Be Whale Wise –See a Blow Go Slow –New Whale Watching Regulations for BC –Happywhale –Big Mama in the Straight of […]

Welcome to Episode One! We are super excited to share our podcast with you and we wanted to start off with introductions! Plus some Fun Flipper Facts and of course, stories! Show Notes: –Save the Vaquita Porpoise –What You Can Do to Help Cetaceans and Marine Wildlife –Saturna Island Killer Whales –Another Orca Encounter from […]

A living library of cetacean stories – now in podcast form! Bringing you stories, news, fun facts, and more about whales, dolphins and porpoises.