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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
About
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Contact us
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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.
News
The bowhead whale lives two centuries without cancer, and not for the reason that was assumed
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22 August 2026
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Eric GARLETTI
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Sperm whale codas behave like vowels, without our knowing what they mean
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22 August 2026
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Eric GARLETTI
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Ship strikes in the Mediterranean: why rorquals and sperm whales are hit in the Pelagos Sanctuary
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21 August 2026
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Eric GARLETTI
News
Fifty thousand humpback whales off the east coast of Australia
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20 August 2026
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Eric GARLETTI
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A humpback whale identified in Australia and then in Brazil: more than 14,000 km, a record for the species
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19 August 2026
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Eric GARLETTI
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Birth of a sperm whale: eleven females from two unrelated families take turns keeping the newborn at the surface
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18 August 2026
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Eric GARLETTI
News
Narwhals enter the fjord as soon as the ice opens, and leave before it closes again
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17 August 2026
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Eric GARLETTI
News
Seismic surveying: fin whales stop vocalising from the first airgun shots
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16 August 2026
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Eric GARLETTI
News
Why Iceland goes on whaling, when almost nothing pushes it to
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16 August 2026
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Eric GARLETTI
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