As a two-year-old orca calf circled a lagoon off the west coast of Canada on Monday, she heard a comforting sound resonating through the unfamiliar…
View More ‘Being so helpless is hard to describe’: can rescuers win the race against time to save an orphaned orca?Tag: Whales
How do you get rid of a beached whale before it explodes?
After a dead fin whale washed up on a beach in Newquay, Cornwall, this week, experts are now dealing with a logistical challenge: how do…
View More How do you get rid of a beached whale before it explodes?Speeding boats push critically endangered whales closer to extinction
The lives of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales are being put at risk by ships speeding in designated “slow zones”, according to a new…
View More Speeding boats push critically endangered whales closer to extinctionA ‘whalecam’, seals v sharks and fish that play dead: it’s Planet Earth III
A detachable “whalecam”, remote underwater cameras operated from a director’s bedroom and a “drone ballet” are among the innovations that will be featured for the…
View More A ‘whalecam’, seals v sharks and fish that play dead: it’s Planet Earth III‘She is finally home’: activists mourn Toki’s death and find meaning in rare whale meetup
On Friday, as the captive orca whale known as Tokitae was dying in Miami, an unusual phenomenon took place in the waters where she was…
View More ‘She is finally home’: activists mourn Toki’s death and find meaning in rare whale meetupGrey whales seen seeking human help to remove parasites
Grey whales have learned to approach whale-watching boats to have parasites removed by human beings, it has been claimed. Video footage documenting the behaviour in…
View More Grey whales seen seeking human help to remove parasitesOrca rams into yacht off Shetland in first such incident in northern waters
An orca repeatedly rammed a yacht in the North Sea off Shetland on Monday, in a concerning development following previous interactions between the cetaceans and…
View More Orca rams into yacht off Shetland in first such incident in northern watersDead whale removed from Bridlington beach after becoming tourist attraction
The carcass of a 30-tonne fin whale that died after being beached in Bridlington has been removed in an operation described as the “largest of…
View More Dead whale removed from Bridlington beach after becoming tourist attractionThousands of whales are being killed by passing ships. Can we save them?
Janie Wray could tell there was something horribly wrong from the way her colleague gasped. They were on a research station off the coast of…
View More Thousands of whales are being killed by passing ships. Can we save them?Agony on a Cornish beach: what do whale strandings tell us about our oceans?
A whale’s tail swishes high into the air, pausing at the apex of its stretch before beating down with a thud into the hard, rocky…
View More Agony on a Cornish beach: what do whale strandings tell us about our oceans?