The Environment

In the 1800s, a group of orca including an adult male called Old Tom, became famous for helping European colonist whalers hunt baleen whales in…

Migaloo, an albino humpback whale was first spotted off Bryon Bay, Australia in 1991. Since then, scientific and citizen science reports have built an extensive…

Sperm whales use echolocation clicks made up of multiple pulses to navigate, find food and communicate. The time it takes for each pulse to travel…

Massey University researchers have analysed skin and blubber samples of 14 male sperm whales that stranded in 2018. These whales all stranded within a month…

Being non-migratory, Bryde’s whales are able to take advantage of our temperate, less prey-abundant waters through switching between different prey sources depending on what is…

A recent study published in Polar Biology has found that New Zealand’s population of southern right whales is growing, despite escalating human stressors. With changes…

Since they were hunted to near extinction, monitoring the recovery of elusive southern right whales has proven difficult. However a recent study published in Ocean…

How will climate change affect the distribution of larger whales? Research published in Ecological Indicators has shown that climate change will drive New Zealand’s larger…