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…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
6 May 2020 Certainly you know that there are several species of whales and many species of dolphins. But did you know that killer whales, also called orcas, come in multiple varieties? Differing…
10 September 2019 In 2014, in French Polynesia, a female bottlenose dolphin nicknamed “Thaïs” is observed with her first calf. Two months later, a newborn male melon-headed whale, also known as a melon-headed…
