7 April 2017 One, two… three spouts appear and remain suspended on the horizon for a few seconds. They're about four kilometres offshore. Having been tipped off, our Franquelin-based collaborator grabs her binoculars…
23 September 2015 DOSSIER UPDATED September 23: What do rorquals prey on? The fourth season of the large rorqual monitoring project ended in early September. In parallel, the Parks Canada team will be…
3 September 2015 The Group for Research and Education on Marine Mammals (GREMM) and Parks Canada, along with their financial partners Fondation de la faune du Québec (FFQ) and the Société des établissements…
27 February 2017 On March 11, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto will launch its new exhibition dedicated to the largest animal the planet has ever known: Out of the Depths: The Blue…
7 December 2016 A rare occurrence in the St. Lawrence; researchers of the Quebec Marine Mammal Emergency Response Network confirmed this week that the carcass seen drifting off Mont-Louis in the Gaspé Peninsula…
6 September 2016 More than ten years ago, I first laid eyes on the largest animal that Earth has ever seen: the blue whale. And luck was on my side again this summer,…
24 August 2016 "The blue whale is the biggest whale, right?" That's a question I hear often. Well yes! The blue whale, which can reach up to 30 m and weigh up to 120 tonnes,…
12 January 2016 Measuring some twenty metres long and weighing around 100 tonnes, what predator "dares" to attack the largest animal on the planet? The killer whale is one of the only predators…
6 October 2015 A large column rises high into the air. "Fin whale or blue whale?" asks our Franquelin-based collaborator on the morning of October 1. Impossible to identify the species, as the…
24 March 2015 Surprised by some of the extreme statistics in the physiology of the blue whale, an Internet user asked us this question, which brings us to the topic of reproduction. Each…
