December 12, 2025

05.12.2025 – Outcasts

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are known to be selective about who they hang out with. Pod members are carefully selected individuals, based on factors that we […]
December 9, 2025

03.12.2025 – Atlantic heights

Our Stenella tour today started with a hopeful team and guests, and unfortunately ended without a sighting. We enjoyed the ride nonetheless and spent the time […]
December 4, 2025

28.11.2025 – Eye spy

What a treat we were in for this morning on the Atlantic Ocean. Apart from having the pleasure of enjoying observations of two of Madeira’s most […]
November 30, 2025

24.11.2025 – An interspecific affair

Madeira’s waters are deep and teeming with prey for hungry predators, particularly those who prefer areas where deep sea squid is on the menu. Apart from […]
November 26, 2025

19.11.2025 – Mama time

Like all mammals, cetaceans give live birth to their young and care for them until the little ones attain their own independence. How this happens, from […]
November 2, 2025

Cooperative behaviour as a population-shaping factor in northern resident killer whales

Source https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.9g_Fnl4Sp3X6E22Xbke6_gHaE8?pid=Api; on 29/10/2025 The northern resident killer whale (Orcinus orca) is an ecotype of orca in the northeastern North Pacific Ocean. They live off the […]
October 29, 2025

23.10.2025 – Tursiops

The Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops) is by far the marine mammal we know the most about. The adaptive nature of these charismatic dolphins has granted them a […]
October 28, 2025

Meet Marion

Marion moved to Madeira in 2003 and has lived here ever since. In her first years on the island she worked as an Assistant Manager in […]
October 27, 2025

The story of crabs, sponges and sea anemones

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/916904?size=large Speaking about nature we often hear the words and phrases “Survival of the fittest”, “Competition” or “The larger eats the smaller”, but what if […]