Final Ocean Matters Lecture: Do Beluga Whales Have ‘Names’?

Tuesday 22nd January @ 7pm

» Due to lack of funding, this is the final Ocean Matters Lecture. All of us at Ocean Wise hope you enjoyed all the lectures and community education events in 2018. We are very sorry they can no longer continue.

Beluga whales are highly sociable animals, traveling, hunting and playing together. Therefore, beluga whales need the ability to find each other when they are lost or separated from their pod. They do this by calling to each other. However, not all of these ‘contact calls’ are the same. Beluga whales make a large number of unique and complex calls when attempting to locate each other.

Brand new research from Ocean Wise, indicates that the reason why there are so many different ‘contact calls’ is because each different call is used to identify and contact distinct individuals – similar to how each human being has its own individual name!

Come and learn about this cutting edge science and how the data on wild beluga calls was actually collected.

Price: Free, but register here to guarantee your seat
Location: The Vancouver Aquarium
Accessibility: This event is wheelchair accessible Gender neutral and accessible bathrooms.
ASL Interpreter: Yes (supplied by WIDDH)
Event Webpage: here!
Facebook Event: here!

For more information see ocean.org/oceanmatters

If you have any questions please let me know.

Many Thanks,

Ruth

Ruth Sharpe, PhD
Manager of Public Programs

Ruth.Sharpe@ocean.org
D 604 659 3497