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 20, 2025
Imagine a flowering meadow, moving grasses, grazing animals and hiding predators. You might think about the steppe or meadows in Europe, but such a world does […]
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 17, 2025
One of the species we encountered today was the so called Striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba). This is a small dolphin which can be encountered around Madeira […]
November 16, 2025
We started the day off strong with Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus). We got to observe the animals showing off their tail flukes before initiating deep foraging […]
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 14, 2025
The sun was setting when we were coming back from our last Stenella trip. Today we could admire 3 different species of cetaceans. In the morning […]
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. […]