Episode 096 – Mailbag!

It’s mailbag time! We haven’t had one in a while so we have a ton of great questions – how do whales breath? how high can dolphins jump? what would happen if you tossed a bunch of human bodies into the deep ocean? Super fun cetaceany stuff – join us!

Show Notes:

-Living with Whales: Documents and Oral Histories of Native New England Whaling History – https://dokumen.pub/living-with-whales-documents-and-oral-histories-of-native-new-england-whaling-history-9781613763049.html

-HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY FROM ITS EARLIEST INCEPTION TO THE YEAR 1876. Published in 1878 – https://mysite.du.edu/~ttyler/ploughboy/starbuck.htm

SUPER big warning on the way Indigenous people are represented in this article!

-GTOA: https://www.orcaiberica.org/en

-AIMM: https://aimmportugal.org/orcas-boats-interactions/

-RMIC: https://museudabaleia.org/

-CIRCE: https://circe.info/ (note: website is in Spanish)

-Killer whales have menopause. Now scientists think they know why: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00794-2

-Killer whales give new insight into the evolution of menopause: https://www.whaleresearch.com/post/killer-whales-give-new-insight-into-the-evolution-of-menopause

-Impact of Marine Submergence and Season on Faunal Colonization and Decomposition of Pig Carcasses in the Salish Sea: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0149107