orcas

Orcas face increasing threats from human related activities and marine noise pollution. Is there somewhere quiet they can call home?

Behavior

Gray whales undertake one of the longest migrations of any animal, swimming 12,000 miles round-trip between their northern feeding grounds…

Neurobiology

Whales can't breathe underwater. But even though whale brains should be damaged by the lack of oxygen, they aren't. Scientists…

The ecology of fear is a hypothesis that predators drive habitat use and behavior in prey species. In the Arctic,…

Orcas are natural predators of narwhals, but they are seasonally kept at bay by Arctic sea ice. As the Arctic…

Killer whale pods spend almost all of their time together, with the exception of when they hunt. Why are they…