Anyone who has ever walked through the doors of Tadoussac\u2019s Marine Mammal Interpretation Centre (CIMM) has undoubtedly gawked at the gigantic whale skeletons on display in the main exhibition hall.<\/p>\n
Upon entering, visitors are suddenly plunged into an underwater world inhabited by creatures whose size they would have never fathomed. They first find themselves in the enormous mouth of a blue whale, whose two lower jaw bones \u2013 6 metres long each \u2013 form a striking arch around the doorway. Just in front of these unusually-shaped bones is the imposing skull of a creature that is hard to recognize at first glance: the sperm whale. Not much remains of the big squarish head that is so iconic of this giant squid hunter. On the left stands the majestic skeleton of the star of the exhibition: Piper, a North Atlantic right whale whose carcass was found in 2015 off the coast of Perc\u00e9, adding to the list of dead individuals of this critically endangered species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anyone who has ever walked through the doors of Tadoussac\u2019s Marine Mammal Interpretation Centre (CIMM) has undoubtedly gawked at the gigantic whale skeletons on display in the main exhibition hall. Upon entering, visitors are suddenly plunged into an underwater world inhabited by creatures whose size they would have never fathomed. They first find themselves in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12840,"featured_media":60569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whale-qa"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n