World Orca Day with Ingrid Visser

Dr. Lori Marino, founder of the Whale sanctuary Project, is joined by Ingrid Visser, a one-of-a-kind scientist and the founder of World Orca Day, to talk about her experiences with orcas around the world, both captive and free-ranging, and what she has learned from them and about them. Ingrid is also founder of the Orca Research Trust, the only research project dedicated to orcas in the South Pacific. She grew up in New Zealand and, when she was 16 years old, sailed around the world with her father and a rescued monkey, who became her constant companion. She earned her Ph.D. with a research project on orcas, and her research today focuses on the cultural aspects of orca behavior, in particular their feeding methods and socializing. With the benefit of her understanding of orca psychology and behavior, she campaigns around the world for captive orcas to be transferred from their featureless concrete tanks to sanctuaries with more natural settings or, where possible, for them to be rehabilitated and released back into the wild. For more about her work, visit the Orca Research Trust at https://www.orcaresearch.org/ And for more about the Whale Sanctuary Project, go to https://whalesanctuaryproject.org/ Your support is greatly appreciate. Donate at https://whalesanctuaryproject.org/donate .