When going out into the Sea of Cortez, California, with the intended purpose of doing some whale watching, it’s probably not all that unusual to actually come across some whales. However, finding a dead humpback is rarely in the plan. But that’s what happened to Michael Fishbach — co-founder of the Great Whale Conservancy with [...]
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Close Encounters with Whales: Part I
The Pacific Gray Whale undertakes the world’s longest mammal migration, traveling an average of 10,000 to 14,000 miles on its annual journey from northwest Alaska to the breeding and calving lagoons of Baja California. The whales are currently en route up the Pacific Coast, but memories of the time she spent among them in Baja this [...]
Dolphins as Therapists
Dogs have been working as “therapists” for us for a long time now. Since the 1970s, they have been going into nursing homes, assisted living centers, children’s hospitals, and prisons to help lift spirits and provide nonjudgmental companionship. Recently, they have even been sent into combat zones: in 2007, two Labrador retrievers were shipped to [...]
What Whales Contemplate
Seems there’s a rising singing sensation who’s getting a lot of press lately. He hails from Australia. Well, actually, from off the coast of Australia — way off. From beneath the ocean. He’s a humpback whale. Earlier this month, an article published in the journal Current Biology stated that after an eleven-year study, researchers in [...]
