Lessons

Module one

What is a Cetacean?

Meet the order Cetacea and discover how a wolf-like land mammal gradually became the blue whale. It is a story 50 million years in the making.

Module two

The Great Filter Feeders

The baleen whales are the largest animals ever to have lived. Meet five of them, and the elegant, improbable machinery that lets them survive on the smallest creatures in the sea.

Module three

Toothed Whales

From sperm whales hunting in darkness to dolphins navigating by sound: the hunters, the echolocators and the surprisingly complex social worlds they inhabit.

Module four

Lives in the Ocean

Migration, diving, culture and the hidden ways whales shape the ocean itself. What does it actually mean to live as a whale?

Module five

Under Threat

Whaling, bycatch, noise, pollution and climate change. An honest look at the pressures bearing down on cetaceans, and what has already been lost.

Module six

Conservation in Action

The recoveries, the near-losses and the people working to turn the tide. What conservation success actually looks like, and how you can be part of it.