AUDIO NATURE/CONSERVATION WHY DID WHALES TAKE TO THE WATER? March 30, 2018March 22, 2018 PASSION for the PLANET animals, environment, green, whales Our modern whales date back over 25million years – and their earliest ancestors were land based. That’s according to whale expert Josiane Cabana at the Group for Education and Research on Marine Mammals based at Tadoussac in Canada. INTERVIEW: JOSIANE CABANA