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Monterey -
In what is probably the first time such an event has been witnessed and recorded, humpback whales appeared to try to intervene when a pod of killer whales attacked a baby gray whale.
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Gentle, and increasingly friendly to whale watchers, fin whales enjoy worldwide protection as their population struggles to recover from whaling. However, Iceland defies world agreements and hunts these whales, often selling the meat illegally to Japan.
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From successful court cases in Japan and the US, to threatened boycotts of Hong Kong Airlines and Amazon.com, cetacean activists are on a roll.
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Vancouver -
A coalition of scientists, ethicists and animal welfare groups is proposing a bill of rights for dolphins. The group says dolphins are so intelligent that they should be thought of as "non-human persons" and given due protection under law.
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Boston -
For the first time researchers say, they have managed to link ocean noise to whale stress, after combining two experiments conducted after 9/11.
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Orlando -
SeaWorld shakes off the critics who lambast the organization's role in the captive mammal entertainment industry, by mostly ignoring them. A newly-launched website created by former SeaWorld marine mammal trainers may not be so easy to disregard.
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Seattle -
Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) has hired American law firm Miller Nash to represent it in a suit aimed to prevent "acts of violence" by Sea Shepherd activists during this year's whale hunt. What was Miller Nash thinking?
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The Whale Song Project, presented by Scientific American and by the Citizen Science Alliance within its Zooniverse project suite, is inviting citizen scientists to help study whale communications and document their observations online.
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Orlando -
SeaWorld officials say they are preparing trainers to re-enter the tanks with the park's killer whales for the first time in a year following the death of veteran trainer Dawn Brancheau, who was killed by the orca Tilikum in full view of an audience.
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Thirty-three long-finned pilot whales died after becoming stranded on a beach in County Donegal, Ireland. It is one of the biggest mass deaths of whales in Irish history.
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Whales Headlines
A study of hormones in whale faeces shows that right whales are stressed by propeller noise from shipping.
What happens to the carcasses of dead whales?
The unusual sight of humpback whales intervening in a killer whale hunt has been caught on camera by a BBC/National Geographic film crew.
Beluga whales are among rare species recorded at, or near to, proposed sites for marine renewables, according to a new report.
Whales that use sound to navigate are able to adjust the sensitivity of their hearing to protect their ears from loud noises, say scientists.
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