How long does it take for a dorsal fin to straighten?
When a killer whale calf is born, it's dorsal fin is bent over. When we first saw J49, in August 2012, it's fin was bent. We wondered how...
How do Orcas cope with loss?
The first in a series of video excerpts from our Celebrating Science workshop held on July 21, 2017, on San Juan Island. Dr. Astrid van...
Big Year for Bigg’s Killer Whales
T36 and T137A - Photo by Dave Ellifrit/CWR The Center for Whale Research (whaleresearch.com) has been monitoring Southern Resident and...
My Visit to the Snake
The story below was written by the Center for Whale Research’s founder and senior scientist Ken Balcomb, who has been studying the...
J28 through my eyes
J28 with calf J54, December 2015. Photo by Dave Ellifrit, Center for Whale Research. I first met J28 in 2003, but I didn’t know her name...
Missing whales ...
J14 with her oldest daughter J37, 2015. Photo by Deborah Giles. Someone asked me once if I take it personally when a whale dies. Do I...
Where are all the whales?
A photo of CWR Staff with a group of L's in 2010. We have started off the summer field season going full speed at the Center. For the...
