Thank you for a wonderful 2024 season!
With the changing of the leaves and the churning of the seas, the fall feed is underway. North Atlantic right whales will begin their journey to the coast of the southeast United States soon, while humpback whales will remain on the feeding grounds as long as possible before departing for the Caribbean in late November.
While we’re sad to say good-bye to the whales for another season, we look forward to their springtime return from their breeding grounds with their youngsters in tow.
Our 2025 schedule will be live on our website and ready for booking by the first of the year. In the meantime, our gift certificates are ideal for holiday giving and a gift certificate for yourself can become a ticket once your warm weather plans are set.
Why menopause keeps evolving in whales
Comparing data on toothed whale species that do, and do not, experience menopause suggests that prolonged female postreproductive life allows whales to improve their offsprings’ and grand-offsprings’ survival chances. Older female whales such as killer whales (Orcinus orca) share food and become “repositories of long-term ecological knowledge”, explains animal-behaviour researcher and study co-author Sam Ellis. Menopause also seems to reduce reproductive competition between mothers and daughters. The hormone changes killer whales go through are similar to those in menopausal humans, but “as to hot and cold flushes, we’ve got no way of telling yet”, Ellis says.
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