The Build-a-Whale program is an innovative education program designed to encourage an excitement for the great whales. It is a hands-on activity that gives the opportunity to handle the bones of a real Killer Whale. The bones are put together by the attendees on a framework display that gives the skeleton a real life perspective.

The activities of SIMRS began by Rod Palm on Jan. 1, '91 monitoring the movements of the transient Killer Whales who frequent the waters of Clayoquot Sound. The results of this research are forwarded to Graeme Ellis at the Nanaimo Biological Station who is the centre for recording the movements of all the Killer Whales of British Columbia and Alaska.

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