Tag: Whales

“I have sat inside her rib cage. And yet I know nothing about her.”

Anti-whaling activists target an Arctic subsistence hunter after a whale hunt gets media coverage.

On the trail of an elusive marine mammal.

These four stories demonstrate humans’ multi-faceted relationship with whales–where politics, the environment and the economy intermingle with love, terror and cruelty.

Whales make calls for a number of reasons—to navigate, to find food, to communicate with each other—and for certain whales, like humpbacks and blues, songs also seem to play a role in sexual selection. Blue males sing louder than females, and the volume of their singing—at more than 180 decibels—makes them the loudest animals in […]

One man’s quest to determine if human beings can be — and have ever been — swallowed alive by whales: If, I’ll pretend for a moment, you were swallowed, it would happen like this: You would first be chewed. Sperm whales’ teeth are 8 inches long – longer than most blades in your knife drawer. […]