This never-before observed behaviour can tell us a lot about whale intelligence.
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Canada’s existing species at risk legislation fails at protecting its most vulnerable inhabitants. More robust protections are needed.
I have spent five years tracking down more than 10,000 accounts of wildlife by naturalists, travellers, historians and even poets, all written between 1529 and 1772
Food quality, not just quantity, matters when it comes to the health and survival of the southern resident killer whales.
The declining salmon and whale numbers raise a critical question: Is the southern resident killer whale population solely reliant on the abundance of salmon? And, if so, since when?
To a group of hungry killer whales, a longline fishing boat looks like an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Blackfish struck an emotional chord over the plight of a traumatised performing whale, prompting real change.
We don’t know for sure which one is smarter, because not everyone agrees on what “intelligence” means. Both have their own special behaviours and skills and we can’t say who is more intelligent.
A bold new approach could protect endangered animals.
Noisy waters may be making it harder for southern resident killer whales to communicate with each other and find their food.
A growing body of evidence points to how animals are aware of death, can experience grief and will sometimes mourn for or ritualize their dead.
An animal behaviour expert gives his view on finding that a killer whale can copy the sound ‘hello’.
As the Discovery Channel and National Geographic Wild unleash a week of dueling shark programs, a biologist advises viewers to take what they see with a large grain of sea salt.
Remembering a giant haunted by tragedy.
The history of displaying exotic animals seems to be one of evolving public expectations about what constitutes acceptable conditions. Is it a case of the more things change, the more they stay the same?
No one wants animals to suffer, but it is notoriously difficult to measure their welfare.
Documentaries are fragile things, easily blown into obscurity or silenced by the sheer weight of corporate power.
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Reader in Biology, University of St Andrews
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