In Ep. 4, we enter the acoustic world of killer whales, and what that means for how they talk with their families, hunt for salmon, navigate the sounds of boats, and so much more. Our guest is Rob Wil...Show More
Is intelligence similar in humans and dolphins? Do dolphins and whales have their own culture and language? How do they perceive the world around them? Janet Mann is a biologist at Georgetown Universi...Show More
Dr. Eddie Mercado is a Professor of Psychology from the University of Buffalo talks about humpback whale songs and a new theory about why they might be singing. Connect with SMM: Website: https://mari...Show More
This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Dr. Kate Stafford, originally aired in September of 2020. The bowhead whale can live up to 200 years old, meaning that the bowhead whales of today kn...Show More
On this week’s episode Dr Ashley Scarlett talks to Dr Stephanie King about her research on animal communication and cooperative strategies.
A soundscape for Episode 3. A full playout of the whale song that sent Pan to sleep. A watery montage of humpback, orca, bowhead and blue whales. Headphones are best. With sound design by Graham Wild ...Show More
On this week’s episode Dr Ashley Scarlett chats with Erin Ross-Marsh about her research on humpback whales and the different calls and sounds that they make.
Are whales the biggest animals to have ever lived? Why have they evolved to become so gigantic? What key adaptations support their immense size? On this episode of Big Biology, we talk to Jeremy Goldb...Show More
In this week’s episode, Dr. Ashley Scarlett talks to Dr. Angie Srema, an Assistant Professor at Oregon State University, who tells us about her research on blue whale genetics, and how this links to h...Show More
The second of a two-part episode with Dr Emma Carroll. In this episode Dr Carroll talks about the discovery of a new beaked whale and cultural migratory behaviors.
Whales migrate along routes thousands of miles long - oceanic superhighways - that also happen to be corridors of human disruption. We discuss the fight to protect whale superhighways. Ari Friedlaende...Show More
This week’s episode is the first part of a series on Dr. Emma Carroll’s research on migrating, and non-migrating, whales. Dr. Carroll also explains what is meant by an “urban whale” and her research o...Show More
Host Mike G. dives into new discoveries from the exciting field of marine bioacoustics research that are helping us better understand the lives of whales and dophins, and we feature fascinating record...Show More
On this week's episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) finds scientist Angela Ziltener at the SMM Conference and chats with her about her new work in the Red Sea with Indo-pacific bottlenose do...Show More
Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) is a member of a rarely seen, little known and little studied group of whales – the beaked whales – that are in fact widespread, relatively common and compl...Show More
Happy New Year! We’re busy working on a new batch of Sidedoor episodes and while you wait, we wanted to re-share a story we like from the fall, just in case you missed it the first time around. From 6...Show More
The film 'Last of the Right Whales' takes a look at how whales struggle when they become entangled in fishing gear, and the advances being made in fishing gear to prevent that. We speak to filmmaker N...Show More
In this week's episode Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats to Guilherme Frainer from Sea Search, about how dolphins produce sound. Gui also explains some differences between dolphins species.
On this week's episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats with Dr Shirel Kahane-Rapport about microplastics in the sea and her work with baleen whales.
On this week's episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) has Rachel Aronson, "Quiet Sound" Program Director at Washington Maritime Blue to talk about their voluntary vessel slow down project in P...Show More
by Egill Bjarnason • It’s amazing no one has died. The original story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
On this week's episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats with Dr Marie Louis about her recent work on population structure of narwhals.
North Atlantic right whales are one of the most endangered mammals on the planet, and many of them spend their time off the coast of the Maritimes or in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Delphine Durette-Mori...Show More
Our guest today is Kevin Campion, founder of Deep Green Wilderness and a board member for the SeaDoc Society. In this episode we talk about the North Pacific Right Whale. Kevin and his crew have made...Show More
On this episode Kathleen Callaghy, Defenders of Wildlife Northwest Representative talks about the threats being faced by the endangered southern resident orca population.
Orcas have been ramming yachts and fishing boats off the coast of southwest Europe for months — in some cases terrifying their crews and captains. Guest host Susan Ormiston explores the mystery behind...Show More
Dr. Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho updates host Dr. Chris Parsons with the latest news of the world’s most critically endangered cetacean, the Vaquita or Gulf of California harbor porpoise.
Dr. Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho updates host Dr. Chris Parsons with the latest news of the world’s most critically endangered cetacean, the Vaquita or Gulf of California harbor porpoise.
Dr. Shane Gero, a visionary marine biologist, is angling to crack the code of sperm whale communication. His mind-bending research is transforming what we thought we knew about these ancient leviathan...Show More
by Darcy Dobell • Is this where North Pacific humpback whales practice their songs? Originally published in March 2019, the story, along with photos, can be found on hakaimagazine.com.
On this episode Dr Scarlett Smash has chats with Lisa Hildebrand, a PhD student at Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute, about her work analyzing the “summer resident” gray whale sub-spe...Show More
Darren Croft studies one of the ocean’s most charismatic and spectacular animals – the killer whale. Orca are probably best known for their predatory behaviour: ganging up to catch hapless seals or ...Show More
The Salish Sea is a natural ecosystem that happens to be split horizontally down the middle by the US / Canada border—an invisible barrier that is of course not recognized by wild species. Conservatio...Show More
Dr. Shane Gero, a visionary marine biologist, is angling to crack the code of sperm whale communication. His mind-bending research is transforming what we thought we knew about these ancient leviathan...Show More
In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited Ray Chin金磊, a Taiwanese wildlife photographer who pioneered in the field of underwater and cetacean photography. In the last two decades, Ray has travelled f...Show More
In this episode of Explore, we dive deep with Canadian whale biologist Shane Gero (https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/exploring-the-inner-lives-of-sperm-whales-with-shane-gero/), who shares his jo...Show More