Episode 11 - Science and Art, Recent Whale News, and Questions

Eric and Katlyn gave a quick recap of a Friend's of Hopkins event last week with Ray Troll. He spoke about his new book that he illustrated about fossils on the West Coast of North America. Katlyn also attended an art and science event at Moss Landing Marine Labs last week that she gave a quick summary about.

We shared some recent whale news from this week. The first story was about the sighting of type D Killer Whales off the coast of Cape Horn. We also talked about the Blue Whale migration paper published from Oregon State University while answering a question from a listener. 

We took a few questions from Instagram to end the episode. We weighed in on our opinion of whales in captivity. We answered a follow up question about whale migration. There was a question about white sharks and feeding on whales or stalking whales. We had a message about the CA 51's so we just ranted about that group of Killer Whales for a few minutes. A great question came in about how to support research and conservation even if you live far away from the ocean. Lastly we talked about whale reproduction and birthing in the wild.

Thanks for sending in your questions! We are having lots of fun getting those through Instagram. We will be switching to publishing episodes on Mondays only from now on as the whale season gets busy for us here in Monterey.