November 24, 2025
Today we had a very sad and touching encounter at sea. I had just told our guests that mourning behaviour in Pilot whales and orcas is […]
November 22, 2025
Fossil discoveries play a central role in understanding the evolution of marine mammals. This group of animals includes whales, dolphins, seals, manatees, and otters. Their ancestors […]
November 19, 2025
Surprise, we have November weather here too! We are facing a storm, but this morning we went out onto the choppy sea. Our traditional fishing boat […]
November 15, 2025
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), as we observed them today, are considered intelligent and social marine mammals. In the wild, they live in complex social groups and […]
November 12, 2025
On our wonderful morning tour we had the big ones, Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and the small ones, Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis), approaching us curiously. […]
November 5, 2025
Every ocean and every sea has its own current systems that give this body of water its special character. Currents are the horizontal and vertical transport […]
November 1, 2025
Our spotters actually work alone. There are places along the coast of Madeira that are very well suited to overlooking a large area of the sea […]
October 24, 2025
Today I was asked when we can expect to arrive in an area where it is possible to spot marine mammals. Well, in principle this is […]
October 21, 2025
Today was a day full of Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and Short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus)! Here’s an interesting fact about them: the grandmother effect! The […]