In this week's episode, Erica chatted with Mari Smultea about her recent publication <a href="https://www.aquaticmammalsjournal.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=2262:blue-whale-balaenoptera-musculus-mother-calf-pair-behavioral-response-to-vessel-in-the-southern-california-bight&amp;catid=210&amp;Itemid=326">Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) mother-calf pair behavioral response to vessel in the Southern California Bight.&nbsp;Aquatic Mammals</a>.&nbsp;
 
Resources:&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.smulteasciences.com/">Smuleta Science</a>s&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cathy-Bacon/publication/314141809_Cetacean_Mother-calf_Behavior_Observed_from_a_Small_Aircraft_off_Southern_California/links/58b6ec5292851c471d479eb6/Cetacean-Mother-calf-Behavior-Observed-from-a-Small-Aircraft-off-Southern-California.pdf">Mother Calf Whale Nursing and Other Behavior</a>
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dagmar-Fertl/publication/318402171_Sperm_Whale_Physeter_macrocephalus_Collision_with_a_Research_Vessel_Accidental_Collision_or_Deliberate_Ramming/links/59677955a6fdcc18ea66220f/Sperm-Whale-Physeter-macrocephalus-Collision-with-a-Research-Vessel-Accidental-Collision-or-Deliberate-Ramming.pdf">Sperm Whale Ramming a Vessel in the Pacific</a>
<a href="https://asa.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1121/1.2836750?casa_token=epeLk67sKc8AAAAA:uLTDKhF3cAXz4QM1W3XSv36LbBRCr2NGdqozYbPeAXfIncMNfLNmA9GqC2vp5cXjggg2oTovkmo">First Recordings of Humpback Whale Sounds, Hawaii</a>
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kate-Lomac-Macnair/publication/304676424_Socio-sexual_and_Probable_Mating_Behavior_of_Cook_Inlet_Beluga_Whales_Delphinapterus_leucas_Observed_From_an_Aircraft/links/5776d39608aeb9427e279301/Socio-sexual-and-Probable-Mating-Behavior-of-Cook-Inlet-Beluga-Whales-Delphinapterus-leucas-Observed-From-an-Aircraft.pdf?_sg%5B0%5D=started_experiment_milestone&amp;origin=journalDetail">First Video of Wild Beluga Socio-sexual Behavior in Cook Inlet, AK</a>

0.43 Frech Polynesian Whales and Things

Breaching Extinction is an investigative podcast evaluating the complexities of the declining Southern Resident Killer Whale population in an effort to better understand the trials they currently face, and find solutions through conversation and connection.