I have spent five years tracking down more than 10,000 accounts of wildlife by naturalists, travellers, historians and even poets, all written between 1529 and 1772
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Food quality, not just quantity, matters when it comes to the health and survival of the southern resident killer whales.
The declining salmon and whale numbers raise a critical question: Is the southern resident killer whale population solely reliant on the abundance of salmon? And, if so, since when?
To a group of hungry killer whales, a longline fishing boat looks like an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Blackfish struck an emotional chord over the plight of a traumatised performing whale, prompting real change.
We don’t know for sure which one is smarter, because not everyone agrees on what “intelligence” means. Both have their own special behaviours and skills and we can’t say who is more intelligent.
A bold new approach could protect endangered animals.
Noisy waters may be making it harder for southern resident killer whales to communicate with each other and find their food.
A growing body of evidence points to how animals are aware of death, can experience grief and will sometimes mourn for or ritualize their dead.
An animal behaviour expert gives his view on finding that a killer whale can copy the sound ‘hello’.
As the Discovery Channel and National Geographic Wild unleash a week of dueling shark programs, a biologist advises viewers to take what they see with a large grain of sea salt.
Remembering a giant haunted by tragedy.
The history of displaying exotic animals seems to be one of evolving public expectations about what constitutes acceptable conditions. Is it a case of the more things change, the more they stay the same?
No one wants animals to suffer, but it is notoriously difficult to measure their welfare.
Documentaries are fragile things, easily blown into obscurity or silenced by the sheer weight of corporate power.
Principales colaboradores
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Reader in Biology, University of St Andrews
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Salford
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University of York
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Professor of Marine Sustainability, Technical University of Denmark
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Research Fellow in Conservation Marketing, University of Oxford
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Director, Florida Program for Shark Research and Coordinator of Museum Operations, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
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Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Stirling
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Senior Director, UBC Sustainability Hub, University of British Columbia
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Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Bioethics, University of Colorado Denver
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Master's student, Dalhousie University
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Lecturer in Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
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PhD Candidate, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia
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PhD candidate, Oceanography, University of British Columbia
