6 August 2019 Aerial surveillance over the past few weeks has not identified any North Atlantic right whales in dynamic speed limit corridors. Late in the day on August 2, the Transport Canada…
15 February 2019 Noise pollution is a growing threat for whales, notably for the beluga population of the St. Lawrence, which is affected by the frequent passing of commercial vessels. Elsewhere in the…
28 November 2018 About 145 black-bodied whales laid out on a long, sandy beach when two hikers, Liz Carson and Julian Ripoll, stumbled upon them as they were heading back to their campground.…
10 January 2018 Solar storms are not the primary cause of mass cetacean strandings in Cape Cod Bay, claims a new study conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Bureau of…
15 November 2017 The stranding of 29 sperm whales in the North Sea in early 2016 may have been caused by solar storms occurring some 150 million kilometres from Earth, according to a…
17 August 2015 A beached animal might be sick, exhausted, injured or disoriented. If it is a young individual, it may be due to a lack of experience or the fact that it…
22 March 2023 As part of a training course, my colleague and UMM technician Méduline Chailloux and I met on a Saturday morning in a laboratory at the Truro Agricultural Campus in Nova…
19 January 2023 Last October 23, a True’s beaked whale beached itself and died in the Bay of Sept-Îles. The causes of this animal’s stranding are not yet known, but closer examination of…
12 August 2021 It was not until a veterinary internship in Quebec in 2003 that French native Marion Desmarchelier saw her first whale. Having long dreamt of cetaceans, she can’t imagine leaving the…
26 November 2020 A dolphin found itself in an awkward position on November 21 near Gros-Cap, in the Magdalen Islands. Out for a stroll, a man and his children discover a cetacean floundering…
