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  • Cetaceans
    • Mysticetes
    • Odontocetes
    • The difference between whale, sperm whale and dolphin
    • Cetacean evolution
    • Cetacean records
    • How to identify a cetacean?
    • Size comparator
    • Interactive phylogeny
    • Interactive anatomy
    • Famous cetaceans
    • Ancestral fossils
    • IUCN status by species
    • 🧭 50+ databases
    • Freshwater cetaceans
    • Epibionts & symbioses
    • Sleep in cetaceans
    • Etymology of the names
    • Diets
    • Life cycles
    • Brain & cognition
    • Aquatic behaviours
    • Swimming performance
    • Diving physiology
    • Senses: hearing & vision
    • Energy & metabolism
    • Hydrodynamics (Strouhal)
    • Lactation
    • Social cohesion
    • Mating & reproduction
    • Anatomical counts
    • Comparative morphometrics
    • Tools & techniques
    • Cognitive tests
    • Sequenced genomes
    • Hybridisations
    • Pigmentation variants
    • Diving records
    • Thermal preferences
  • Watching
    • When to watch cetaceans
    • Watching calendar
    • How should you prepare for your whale watching trip?
    • Whale watching certification labels
    • HQWW directory and associations
    • Where to watch whales and dolphins
    • Watching in the Mediterranean
    • Map of cetaceans in France
    • Marine mammals of France
    • Most recorded cetaceans (GBIF)
    • Annual migrations
    • Identify my cetacean
    • Identifying by the blow
    • Ocean currents
    • Sea level (satellite)
    • Bay of Biscay: plankton & temperature
    • Seabed types (Bay of Biscay)
    • GBIF records (Bay of Biscay)
    • Fishing & ship strikes (Bay of Biscay)
    • Ships by satellite (VesselFinder)
    • Offshore wind and cetaceans (France)
    • Cetacean distribution (DCSMM)
    • Crozet & Kerguelen
    • Marine sanctuaries worldwide
    • MPAs worldwide
  • Strandings
    • What should you do if you find a stranded cetacean?
    • The RNE (Réseau National Echouage) in France
    • Why study strandings?
    • What causes strandings?
    • Stranding map
    • Chemical pollution
    • Bycatch
    • International legal framework
    • Blue carbon
    • Climate change
    • Diseases
    • Ocean noise
    • Current demographics
    • Captivity & sanctuaries
    • Rescues
  • Media
    • Research & discoveries
    • Cetaceans and human culture
    • A history of whaling
    • Cetacean sound library
    • Video library
    • Encyclopaedia of cetacean researchers: who studies cetaceans
    • Research organisations (worldwide)
    • Audio quiz: recognise the cetacean
    • Whaling 1900-2025
    • Cetacean documentaries
    • Call library
    • 🧭 Explore all the data
    • Live hydrophones
    • Whale products
    • 📸 Cetacean photographers
    • Military marine mammals
    • Scientific bibliography
    • Quotations from cetology
    • Acoustic profile
    • Fiction films
    • History of the discoveries
    • Cetaceans in music
    • Myths & folklore
    • Skeletons in museums
    • Acoustic monitoring (PAM)
    • Tracking technologies
  • Education
    • 🧭 Explore all the tools
    • How to act
    • Bibliography & media library
    • For children
    • For teachers
    • Breath-hold calculator vs cetaceans
    • Whale falls
    • Citizen science
    • Open data
    • Watch: the FORESEA dataset
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The Cetacean Journal

News, discoveries and stories from the marine world!

Latest news from the open sea

Dive into our selection of articles to find out all about cetaceans and their environment.
Des dauphins frappent le safran d’un voilier à Dieppe, un geste jusqu’ici réservé aux orques de Gibraltar
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Dolphins strike a sailing boat’s rudder off Dieppe, a behaviour until now seen only in the Gibraltar killer whales

•31 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Un dauphin chasse avec une coquille, son petit la ramasse trois minutes plus tard
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A dolphin hunts with a shell, its calf picks it up and does the same three minutes later

•30 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Mer d’Alborán 561 observations en un mois, dont 66 rencontres de ziphius
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Alborán Sea: 561 sightings in one month, including 66 encounters with Cuvier's beaked whales

•29 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Vaquita entre sept et dix individus, et des naissances malgré tout
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Vaquita: between seven and ten individuals, and births all the same

•28 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Orques résidentes du Sud 76 individus, le niveau le plus élevé depuis 2017
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Southern Resident killer whales: 76 individuals, the highest level since 2017

•27 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Été 2026 la Méditerranée entière recompte ses cétacés
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Summer 2026: the whole Mediterranean counts its cetaceans again

•26 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Le cachalot de Méditerranée : une population en danger, et du plastique dans huit estomacs sur dix
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The Mediterranean sperm whale: an Endangered population, and plastic in eight stomachs out of ten

•25 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Un mois sans pêche dans le golfe de Gascogne la mortalité des dauphins divisée par deux et demi
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One month without fishing in the Bay of Biscay: dolphin mortality cut by a factor of two and a half

•24 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Des baleines à bosse mettent bas en pleine migration, bien plus au sud qu’on ne le pensait
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Humpback whales give birth mid-migration, far further south than was thought

•23 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
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