Captain Dan explains the advantages of combining whale research with the opportunity of taking tourists along on a whale watching expedition. Click movie icon on the left for a popup video window. Quicktime format 1.4 MB.
	Great underwater video footage of various whale species. Click movie icon on the left for a popup video window. Quicktime format 0.8 MB.
	A pod of male Humpback whales compete for a female who is looking after her calf. Click movie icon on the left for a popup video window. Quicktime format 1.5 MB.
	Underwater video footage of Humpback whales up close along with an explanation of how the Pacific Humpback population is faring. Click movie icon on the left for a popup video window. Quicktime format 2.1 MB.

DID YOU KNOW?

• The largest animals on earth - baleen whales - survive by eating the smallest animals and plants on Earth - plankton. A blue whale can actually be 100,000,000 times larger than the food it eats!

• An adult human skeleton usually weighs less than 25 pounds, but an adult blue whale skeleton can weigh 50,000 pounds!

• Some arteries in some whales are so large that a child could crawl through them!

• Whales once had hair, hind legs and outer ears! Some whales still have hair and are born with hind legs!

• Whales can "see" with their ears. This is called echolocation or sonar. Some whales that use echolocation can judge distance underwater further than you can see through the air!