Whales News
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By AFP
Sydney -
Scientists studying whales in Australia have gained rare images of a white calf swimming with its mother as part of a project they hope will help conservation efforts.
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By AFP
Sydney -
Scientists studying whales in Australia have gained rare images of a white calf swimming with its mother as part of a project they hope will help conservation efforts.
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By AFP
Sydney -
Scientists studying whales in Australia have gained rare images of a white calf swimming with its mother as part of a project they hope will help conservation efforts.
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By AFP
Antibes -
Environmental campaigners said Sunday they were taking legal action against a French marine park, Europe's largest, over the treatment of its orca whales and other animals after many were killed in a recent storm.
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By AFP
Paris -
Menopause in women and females from a few other "higher" species is probably a fluke of nature rather than evolution at work, according to a study published Wednesday.
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Around the Gulf of Alaska sperm whales like to follow fishing boats. This can place the whales in danger from fishing nets and from the boats. A new decoy can successfully lure sperm whales away from fishermen’s lines.
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A new study suggests that sperm whales have different dialects. The finding demonstrates further the complexity of the great mammals of the oceans.
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By AFP
Stockholm -
Five activists from the militant Sea Shepherd conservation group have been ordered to leave the Faroe Islands after they tried to disrupt a traditional whale hunt in the autonomous Danish province, police said Saturday.
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A Canadian researcher recently witnessed a polar bear holding his breath for a record-breaking three minutes off of Norway's Svalbard Islands.
While this is amazing, it's nothing to be happy about.
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Aberdeen -
Should species that have long disappeared be reintroduced into a territory or country? The answer is yes, according to the campaign group Rewilding Britain.
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Pippa Middleton, who is famous for being the sister of Kate Middleton, has been criticized for eating whale meat and then writing about how much she enjoyed it.
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Ocean animals have been getting larger over the millennium. According to a new analysis, reviewing thousands of species from the Earth’s seas since the Cambrian Period, there has been a gradual uplift in size.
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By AFP
Sydney -
A pod of six sperm whales washed up dead Monday in a rare mass stranding on the South Australia coast, with animal welfare officials struggling over the logistics of handling the huge carcasses.
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Two friends were boating in Norway and they captured six humpback whales on film. The whales ended up avoiding their boat after they suddenly emerged around them.
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San Francisco -
Biologists have calculated that the numbers of California blue whales has risen. This means that the population is returning to sustainable levels.
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Santa Barbara -
Whales migrating off of the coastline near Santa Barbara are a little bit safer and cargo ships that slow down as they travel through this area are a little bit richer. It's all part of a program to save whales and cut pollution.
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A mother and calf pair of humpback whales were enjoying their life in the wild when Filmmaker Justin Edwards found them with his drone. He was able to use his device to get some great shots of the animals without disturbing their habitat.
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Every year whale watchers from all over the world visit Hawaii to see the endangered humpback whales. However, there are other endangered species that need just as much attention, hence the introduction of a new online whale tracking map.
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Canada's Royal Ontario Museum will take two blue whale carcasses that washed up on the coast of western Newfoundland. Locals fear that the decomposing whales could bloat and explode.
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A mysterious oceanic quacking sound, which has remained unidentified for 50 years, has been shown to originate from minke whales.
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The Hague -
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, ordered Japan to put a stop to whaling in the Southern Ocean.
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Researchers have identified a core skin bacterial community that all humpback whales share across populations. Monitoring these bacteria could point to a way to assess the overall health of these endangered marine mammals.
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Captain Dave Anderson of Captain Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Safari used a drone mounted camera to videotape migrating whales and stampeding dolphins in Maui, Hawaii. The footage is breathtaking.
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By AFP
Nelson -
At least 13 pilot whales were beached Tuesday on a remote New Zealand coastline and conservation officials were desperately battling to prevent another 50 from reaching the shore.
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The documentary Blackfish certainly made it the year of the orca, but there were several other notable achievements for cetaceans in 2013. These are the accomplishments voted on by advocates themselves.
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The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has launched a review of whether it should take North Pacific humpback whales off the endangered species list.
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A total of 1,534 pilot whales and dolphins had already been slaughtered in the Faroe Islands this year by mid-November. A bitter setback for whale and dolphin protectors. Nevertheless, there is reason for hope.
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Gray whales in the North Pacific belong to two distinct populations, with the Western gray whale population seen mainly along the coasts of China, Korea, Japan and Russia. They have been hunted to the point of near extinction, and less than 100 remain.
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A team of adventurous filmmakers has made a documentary that shows the opportunities to see wildlife along Chile, from the arid regions of the Atacama Desert to the Patagonia and Antarctica, and from the high Andes to the Pacific Ocean.
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Humpback whales in a region of British Columbia doubled in number between 2004 and 2011, halting several years of decline.
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A captured short-finned pilot whale is measured by fishery workers including Fisheries Agency employees at Taiji Port in Japan's oldest whaling village of Taiji, 420 km (260 miles) southwest of Tokyo With permission by Reuters / Issei Kato
This chart shows that Japan's appetite for whale meat is definitely on the decline. IFAW
Daniel Botelho's photos of whales Daniel Botelho
A captured short-finned pilot whale is measured by fishery workers including Fisheries Agency employees at Taiji Port in Japan's oldest whaling village of Taiji, 420 km (260 miles) southwest of Tokyo With permission by Reuters / Issei Kato
Members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, aboard their ship the Steve Irwin (R), confront the Japanese ship the Kaiko Maru near Antarctica, December 26, 2008 With permission by Reuters / Eric Cheng
Daniel Botelho's photos of whales Daniel Botelho
In this file photo captured short-finned pilot whales are seen on the deck of a whaling ship at Taiji Port in Japan's oldest whaling village of Taiji, 420 km (260 miles) southwest of Tokyo With permission by Reuters / Issei Kato
Stranded pilot whales screen capture from You Tube
Beached whales in Ireland screen capture from news video
The ribs of whales are similar to other mammal ribs. University of California, Berkeley.
Daniel Botelho's photos of whales Daniel Botelho
A screenshot from the video where two divers are almost eaten by humpback whales YouTube
Bears feeding on a fin whale carcass in Larson Bay, Alaska, near Kodiak. NOAA
Narwhales in the Artic Felix Stember
Fin Whale Lori Mazzuca, AFSC/Kodiak
Daniel Botelho's photos of whales Daniel Botelho
Bombing is permitted in the sanctuary. Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary (NOAA)
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