published April 24, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: flickkerphotos / cc Without the aid of maps, roadsigns, and GPS equipment, many human travelers would have hard time reaching their destinations, but such unassisted journeys are no problem at all for humpback whales. Researchers studying whale migration found that humpbacks are amazingly accurate navigators -- able to travel across hundreds of miles of vast ocean without deviating ...
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published March 1, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo by dave and rose via Flickr Creative Commons We've heard about whales suffering from loneliness due to overhunting . There's simply fewer of their species for them to communicate with. But what about a whale who sings at the wrong frequency? One whale, recorded since 1989 and tracked since 1992, sings at a frequency of 51.75 Hz, whereas ...
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published October 9, 2010 and has No Comments
The Whale Wars war of words continues: Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson has issued a long statement countering... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Paul Watson Says He Never Ordered Scuttling the Ady Gil - Bethune's Just Angry Over Being Kicked Out
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published October 3, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Fox News Animals have a knack for saving other animals , but they've also been known to put themselves in the line of danger for humans -- and we're not just talking about pet dogs that protect their homes from burglars. From dolphins that rescued a surfer from sharks and a whale that helped a drowning athlete ...
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published September 23, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Mr Moss /Flickr On a remote beach in northern New Zealand, a group of conservationists and volunteers is struggling to keep 80 beached pilot whales alive until they can be pushed back into the ocean. With wind and waves too severe to perform the operation, the whales must be moved down shore to a protected inlet, but ...
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published September 7, 2010 and has No Comments
Photos via ICUN The issue of how marine noise impacts whales is a subject of intense study. We're seeing more and more evidence of how human activity in the ocean negatively affects whales and dolphins. Most often the culprits pointed out are the shipping industry and naval sonar. But other harmful noises include that of... Read the full story ...
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published September 5, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via kasei.co.uk It turns out that a surprisingly high number of grade schools in Japan are serving their students more than just a well-rounded education. According to the results of a survey released today, whale meat is back on the menu at about a sixth of Japan's public elementary and junior-high schools... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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published September 5, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo from one of Captain Dave's Dolphin and Whale Safari Boat Tours In the past week, copious amounts of planktonic krill have drawn large groups of blue whales off the coast of Long Beach in Southern California. As many as 25 whales have been spotted from the shore. Dan Salas, captain of Harbor Breeze Cruises' 65-foot vessel, told reporters ...
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published September 2, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via The Daily Mail The ocean's whales are some of the Earth's most massive and majestic animals, reaching sizes of up to 80 feet long and 150 tons. As the targets of centuries of whaling, they have a violent history -- and are still recovering from an industry that depleted their numbers substantially. But while whales can be ...
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published August 31, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via UCSD What happens inside a whale's head when it encounters sound? The mammals have highly developed capabilities of detecting and processing sound waves, something that helps them communicate over long distances, but which also spell their demise in an ocean filled with intense, loud human-generated noise. We've seen research that shows scientists looking into how too-loud noise ...
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