Marrion Faber

Like just about every land and sea animal on the planet, cetaceans (of which whales are members) have eyes and a degree of eyesight. Some animals rely heavily on this faculty...

For a long time, cetaceans have been thought to have either an extremely limited sense of smell or none at all. This is largely because the olfactory bulb (a sensory centre...

The sense of taste is, in general, not as important to all animals as it is to human beings. We delight in a range of flavours, even craving sweet, sour or...

Whales and other cetaceans live in a world completely different to ours. Theirs is a cold, watery, silent place that they share with millions upon millions of other species. To inhabit...

In certain whale species, teeth exist instead of the baleen plates of other whales. These whales are part of the Odontoceti suborder of Cetaceans, which eats mainly fish and crustaceans. Some...

The whale’s body is, in relation to so many other mammals, bulky, weighty and, usually, quite enormous. Still, whales are able to glide through the ocean’s waters gracefully and with ease. This...