Shane Gero mentored under Hal Whitehead through his masters and doctoral work at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. The Dominica Sperm Whale Project, a long-term behavioral study of sperm whale families, grew from this partnership and has collaboratively made advances in our understanding of sperm whale social relationships, babysitting, diet, movement and communication. Shane currently splits his time between his human family in Canada and the whale families which so patiently let him share in their lives off the island of Dominica in the Caribbean.