Eavesdropping on orcas: love, grief, and...

<p>This is not an easy story to tell. In the town where I live, Bellingham, Washington, there&rsquo;s a beautiful urban creek. It flows just four miles from a lake, through a city park, down through the town to the sea. But in the summer of 1999, disaster struck. A gasoline pipel ... Show More

<p>Have you ever wondered why your dog takes such a long time to sniff a patch of grass? Or why flies buzz around so sporadically? It&rsquo;s because most of what a creature actually senses is invisible to us. They perceive <em>their </em>world as differently as we perceive our o ... Show More

<p>Blink and you&rsquo;ll miss &lsquo;em! In this episode we get to know hummingbirds eyeball-to-eyeball.&nbsp;</p> <p>The world of the hummingbird is changing fast in the deserts of Arizona. So much so that even an animal as quick as a hummingbird is struggling to keep up. Nativ ... Show More

Chirp. Whistle. Creak. Beluga whales, the canaries of the sea, have a lot to say. But noise from ships can drown out their calls, putting calves in danger. What happens when humans press pause during the coronavirus pandemic—and finally give ocean life some peace and quiet? For m ... Show More

Something strange started happening in early 2023 in the waters off south-western Europe, where the Mediterranean sea meets the Atlantic ocean. Orcas began slamming into the sides of fishing and sailing vessels. The killer whales then dived underneath to locate and destroy the ru ... Show More

Every spring Inupiaq hunters camp on the sea ice north of the Arctic Circle, in hopes of capturing a bowhead whale to share with their village. But as global warming accelerates ice melt, it threatens the tribe’s 4,000-year-old tradition. National Geographic photographer Kiliii Y ... Show More

Yi-Kai Tea, a biodiversity research fellow at the Australian Museum in Sydney, has amassed a social media following as @KaiTheFishGuy for his sassy writing and gorgeous photos of fish and other wildlife. Kai recently returned from an expedition aboard an Australian research ship ... Show More

<p>In our most recent episode, we answered questions about  really big animals: whales!</p> <p>We covered a lot when it comes to these huge aquatic mammals but there was one big topic we didn't get to: and that's how whales communicate.  We'll learn more about the sounds whales ... Show More

What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty‑ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak—asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication. “When a whale is in t ... Show More

<p><em><strong>As the year wraps up, we're looking back at ten of the episodes that defined our year at The Take. This originally aired on June 28.</strong></em></p> <p>Off the Portuguese coast in the Strait of Gibraltar, a pod of orca whales has been ramming commuter boats and r ... Show More