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An Exceptional Cetacean: Tool Use in Bottlenose Dolphins

23 November 2023 In Shark Bay, Western Australia, a subset of the bottlenose dolphin population displays remarkable ingenuity. When foraging, they cover their snouts with a sea sponge in order to search the…

Northern Bottlenose Whale

26 March 2019 The northern bottlenose whale, rare visitor to the St. Lawrence, possesses remarkable diving abilities, both in terms of time and depth. This allows it to benefit from living food resources…

CIMM Gets a New Skeleton!

4 June 2025 The story of an unusual whale in our region is now making headlines. This article retraces the story of a northern bottlenose whale skeleton, from its recovery in the Gaspé…

Stranded Beaked Whale on Île d’Orléans

7 November 2024 On October 23, the carcass of a northern bottlenose whale was discovered on the banks of Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d’Orléans, near Quebec City. Thirty years earlier, almost to the day, an individual of…

Masturbation and Functional Clitoris: Dolphins’ Sexual Life Revealed

8 February 2022 It is widely known that some animal species, including humans and bonobos, engage in sexual activity outside of their breeding season. Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) also fall in this category.…

Why are fin whales so fast?

9 November 2021 Nicknamed the “greyhound of the sea,” the fin whale is the fastest of any of the large rorquals that frequent the St. Lawrence. Its cruising speed is 10 to 15…

Two Beaked Whales Stranded Alive in Chaleur Bay

7 October 2021 On Thursday, September 30, the Quebec Marine Mammal Emergency Response Network (QMMERN) receives a report of two whales stranded alive in the Gaspé Peninsula town of Listuguj. Over the phone,…

How do whales show their emotions?

13 May 2021 Whales produce viscous tears (article in French) that serve to protect their eyes from debris. Are these tears also used to convey sadness? We don’t think so. Undoubtedly however, cetaceans…

How does a collision affect a cetacean’s social life?

19 January 2021 When discussing the impacts of an accident between a ship and a marine mammal, we generally focus on the physical consequences of the collision. Often fatal for the cetacean, a…

Fall Dolphins

17 September 2020 “What? Dolphins? Here?” wonders one reader. For many people, when the talk turns to dolphins, the first thing that comes to mind is Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin. But in reality,…