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The word of the 2024 season? Variety! In addition to the numerous humpbacks and minkes, we’ve also been seeing blue, porbeagle, and basking sharks, gray and harbor seals, and multiple leatherback turtles.
With signs of the fall migration starting to make their appearances, we are looking forward to seeing what the remaining two months of the season bring. Ask the crew and they’ll tell you about September whale watching being some of their favorite trips of the year. We’d love to bring you along as well!
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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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