Last call! Our season ends November 3rd.
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.
October is often when we see the largest number of harbor porpoise, and minke whales are likely to remain as well — their migration habits in the northwest Atlantic are unknown! Dress in your layers and enjoy whale sightings amid the crisp air with a freshly made cup of hot cocoa. There are plenty of whales here to see!
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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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