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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.
Trente-sept orques ibériques ce que dit la dernière étude démographique, et pourquoi les femelles adultes inquiètent
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Thirty-seven Iberian killer whales: what the latest demographic study says, and why adult females are a concern

•15 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Pourquoi les cachalots soufflent des bulles en dormant On sait enfin pourquoi
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Why do sperm whales blow bubbles while they sleep? We finally know why

•15 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
La baleine franche de l’Atlantique Nord repasse au-dessus de 380 individus, troisième hausse consécutive
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The North Atlantic right whale climbs back above 380 individuals, a third consecutive year of increase

•14 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Les clics lents du cachalot le signal de communication le plus puissant du monde animal, et le plus lentement rythmé
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Sperm whale clicks: the most powerful communication signal in the animal kingdom

•14 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Toñi, la doyenne des orques ibériques, photographiée criblée de plombs dans le détroit de Gibraltar
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Toñi, the oldest known Iberian killer whale, photographed riddled with shotgun pellets in the Strait of Gibraltar

•13 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Les baleines bleues chantent moins, les baleines à bosse chantent plus ce que six ans d’écoute révèlent vraiment
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Whale song as an indicator of the state of the ocean: six years of listening off California

•13 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Un éclat de harpon du XIXe siècle dans l’épaule d’une baleine tuée en 2007 ce qu’il nous a appris sur la longévité
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Dating a whale's age with an 1879 patent: what the Barrow fragment established about bowhead longevity

•12 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Le krill colmate les fanons une contrainte hydraulique inattendue sur l’alimentation des rorquals
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Krill clogs the baleen: an unexpected hydraulic constraint on rorqual feeding

•12 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Treize bélugas de Marineland Canada transférés aux États-Unis, le plus grand convoi de cétacés captifs jamais organisé
News

Thirteen belugas from Marineland Canada moved to the United States, the largest convoy of captive cetaceans ever organised

•11 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
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