Tag archives for killer whales
Posted by Orcas vs. Sperm Whales from Blue Sphere Media on Vimeo.
The other day Alexis Manning posted a link in the Nat Geo Daily 10 to a video showing rare footage of a pod of orcas attacking a family of sperm whales (watch above). The video is from Blue Sphere Media, a production company with the tagline: “We fuse dramatic imagery with intimate and thought-provoking stories,…
Posted by “We gotta do better, it’s time to begin. You know all the answers must come from within…. Come on and take a free ride….” From where I write, on the coast of California, I can look out and see dolphins swim gracefully through forests of ocean kelp. But I know that on the other…
Killer Whale Moms and Menopause
Posted by Cathy Hunter on September 20, 2012 
Despite their fearsome moniker, it turns out that male killer whales are mama’s boys who have a hard time surviving on their own. Scientists think that’s one of the reasons the female of the species go through an unusually long menopause.
Frontiers of Exploration
Posted by Ford Cochran on June 13, 2009 More highlights from the 2009 Explorers Symposium: NGS/Waitt Grant recipient Albert Lin described the source of his passion for exploration and culture, spending “every penny I had” exploring the world’s cultural heritage, and his new commitment to protect a region in Mongolia that has been held sacred for eight centuries. Committee for Research and Exploration…
