Humpback whales, killer whales, gray whales, sperm whales and many more are native to the region.
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Illustration: Alex BoersmaToday, whales can be broadly lumped into two main groups: toothed whales, such as orcas and dolphins, and filter-feeding whales (or mysticeti), such as humpbacks, fin whales, blue whales, and minke whales.
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Blue whales, fin whales, right whales and bowhead whales are the largest animals, by weight, ever to have evolved.
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These included those of killer whales, pilot whales, Risso's dolphins and humpback whales.
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You've got your filter feeding whales, also known as mysticeti, a group that includes humpbacks, fin whales, blue whales, and minke whales.
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For July 1 to December 31, the permitted catch is 227 whales (52 minke whales, 150 Bryde's whales and 25 sei whales).
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It gives us killer whales, beluga whales, sperm whales, blue whales, and just when you think there can't be any more whales, a mysterious possible new species rears its slick, rubbery head.
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That breaks down to 4633 bryde's whales, 52 common minke whales and 25 sei whales.
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In 2014, Norway caught 746 minke whales and Iceland caught 137 fin whales and 24 minke whales.
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Scientists are hoping to try the tag on other whales, such as humpbacks, minke whales and fin whales.
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The technology has already been used to photograph whales in other locations, including southern right whales near Argentina, humpback whales off Hawaii and gray whales close to the coast of Mexico.
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In the case of whales, paleontologists have been searching for an intermediate species of whale positioned between toothed whales and filter-feeding whales.
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This included three sperm whales — two of which were a mother and her very young calf — three beaked whales and two baleen whales.
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In a study published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of researchers investigated gigantism in baleen whales, the filter-feeding leviathans that include blue whales, bowhead whales and fin whales.
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" Elsewhere, she notes: "Whales, and particularly sperm whales, were quasi-mythological creatures.
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J1 fathered 16 whales, and L41 fathered 20 whales, according to NOAA.
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Beluga whales, narwhals, and short-finned pilot whales also go through menopause.
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More than 60 killer whales and 40 sperm whales were studied, though just one of each was tagged because whales aren't particularly cooperative, said Towers.
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In its previous whaling program, Jarpa II, Japan was targeting 850 minke whales, 50 fin whales and 50 humpback whales in the Antarctic each year.
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Starting around 4.5 million years ago, giant blue whales were popping up in oceans across the world alongside giant bowhead whales and giant fin whales.
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Unlike humpback whales, false killer whales aren't spotted off Sydney's shores very often.
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Humpback whales, an endangered species, and gray whales are the most frequent victims.
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Another video showed four Gervais' beaked whales, relatives of the True's whales, jumping.
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Among humpback whales, there was an unusual mortality event in 2006, following others in 2005, which involved other large whales, and 2003, which was primarily humpback whales.
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Whales: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is delaying new protections for certain whales.
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Humpback whales These are the whales you see breaching and jumping in fantastic displays.
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Only three species outlive their fertility: humans, killer whales and short-finned pilot whales.
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Instead, the Japanese have dropped the pretense of hunting whales for research and say they will strictly hunt whales in waters around Japan — mostly for the whales' meat.
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Goldbogen's team plan to try the technique out on other types of wild whales, such as sperm whales and bowheads, which dive for much longer periods than blue whales.
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True's beaked whales are one of 22 species of beaked whales within the Ziphiidae family.
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Firstly, killer whales are not whales at all, but are actually a type of dolphin.
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The species is a relative of modern toothed whales like dolphins, porpoises and sperm whales.
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"Bowhead whales (closely related to right whales) are capable of living 200 years," she said.
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Fin whales are almost the largest animals on Earth; only blue whales are longer and heavier.
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Sperm whales, which are listed as an endangered species, are the largest of the toothed whales.
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Whales: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is moving forward with new protections for certain whales.
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Most whales and dolphins vocalize, but dolphins and toothed whales mostly make clicking and whistling sounds.
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Working in South Africa, Patagonia, and off both coasts of the United States, the researchers affixed the device to several species of rorquals, including humpback whales, blue whales, and minke whales.
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There were 17 confirmed dead stranded whales in the US and Canada in 2017, and three stranded whales in 2018 in the US. In 2019, there were 10 stranded whales in the US and Canada, which puts the total at 30 dead stranded whales for that period.
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This year's quota, including minkes, sei whales and Bryde's whales, was about 220, the Nikkei newspaper said.
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Fact is, those who hold killer whales captive are themselves captive to the killer whales they hold.
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But these mysterious beaked whales make up the second largest family of cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises).
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It's a critical habitat for right whales, seabirds like puffins, humpback whales, bluefin tuna and other species.
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"Sperm whales, beaked whales — some of those species can dive for an hour or more," he said.
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But the discovery suggests instead that modern baleen whales and modern toothed whales lost the hind limbs independently.
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Why pilot whales and Risso's dolphins behave differently in response to the threat from killer whales is unclear.
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But because they stay so far offshore, gray whales and humpback whales more commonly wash up on beaches.
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Bones from gray whales, sea lions and killer whales wash ashore, piling on the beach along fallen evergreens.
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Gray whales are the one of the most frequently seen whales in California, according to The Marine Mammal Center.
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"Humpback whales are one of the most remarkable whales in the world and today was a perfect example why."
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The species was named "right whales" in whaler lingo of old, because they were the right whales to hunt.
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Between 950 and 21982, Japan's fleet has killed nearly 2500,22013 minke whales and 19403 fin whales (which are endangered).
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Here's what is happening: Whales: The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will loosen the protections for some humpback whales.
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In other words, the largest whales ever measured, at 109 feet, are theoretically the largest whales that can exist.
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Estimates are 2 million whales were destroyed; an estimated 10 percent of whales survive from the pre-whaling days.
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But for unknown reasons, blue and fin whales are still struggling; just a few thousand Antarctic blue whales remain.
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Other species of squid, swordfish, bottle-nosed whales, sperm whales, hooded seal and other marine animals eat Gonatus too.
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This year's quota for commercial whaling, including minkes, sei whales and Bryde's whales, is 227, the Fisheries Agency said.
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Omura's whales are baleen whales, meaning they are filter feeders, and they can be identified by their asymmetric coloration.
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The North Atlantic right whales and bowhead whales split from the other baleens about 28 million years ago; among the rorquals, minke whales seem to have begun diverging more than 10 million years ago; and the blue and sei whales split from the remaining around five million years ago, the study found.
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To ensure that the western South Atlantic whales continue to thrive and that the regrowth of this population doesn't negatively impact other animals that depend on the same resources as the whales, conservationists are calling for protections that will look out for the whales and other creatures on the whales' migratory path.
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Filter feeding whales use their rows of baleen to filter plankton and small fish from the ocean, whereas orca whales use their teeth to chomp down on large prey, such as sea lions and other whales.
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OK, maybe the possibility of seeing basking sharks in shallow waters just off the beach, as well as dolphins, porpoises, minke whales, humpback whales, killer whales, grey seals, sea eagles and 260 other species of birds.
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Although diving capacity usually increases with size, Cuvier's beaked whales dive longer and deeper than larger whales, and are about half the size of sperm whales, which are the second best deep-divers, Ms. Shearer said.
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"As you have more whales in the population, more whales are going to die from time to time," he added.
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The more commonly spotted killer whales for the Monterey Bay are called transient killer whales, which mainly eat other mammals.
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The drawings at times reveal mishaps: broken tools and ropes, escaped whales and the untethered bodies of whales that sank.
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The Makah tribe has historically harvested stranded whales and also hunted whales, but it hasn't done so legally since 1999.
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They look at capturing the whales as a spiritual practice, and pray and thank the whales both before and after.
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Speaking of inconsistencies, it's worth noting that the cover of "Rush Oh!" depicts a sperm whale rather than one of the blue whales, humpbacks, right whales, finback whales and orcas that swim through the pages of Barrett's narrative.
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Just like humans enjoy watching large whales and schools of fish, sometimes whales enjoy watching large boats and schools of humans.
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A facility in Nakhodka, Russia, holding over 100 whales in small enclosures has been ordered to release most of its whales.
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Though SeaWorld claims to offer its whales world-class care, some of the whales were dying in their teens or younger.
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The cross-species hybridization may seem bizarre, but is made possible by the fact that melon-headed whales aren't actually whales.
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There's not much in the way of tactics for hunting the whales, nor much difference between the types of whales themselves.
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Survival rates dropped sharply for whales that had recently lost a grandmother—even adult whales of 15 or 20 years old.
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All 145 of the whales died; the whales that did not die on their own were euthanized because of their poor health.
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There have been instances of humpback whales coming to the aid of seals being attacked by killer whales, and scientists are baffled.
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Therefore, because of the threat that killer whales pose to their young, it seems like humpback whales will just attack the other.
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SeaWorld crossbred whales through forced confinement together or through artificial insemination, creating hybrid whales that don't even exist in the natural world.
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Earlier this summer, a pair of humpback whales came to the rescue of a seal who was being pursued by orca whales.
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For that reason, studies performed on captive whales probably can't be extrapolated to apply to all whales, given their highly controlled environment.
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Whales: Russia is preparing to release an unprecedented number of whales, seized to keep them from being exported to Chinese marine parks.
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Scientist Regina Eisert was studying the eating habits of Type-C killer whales when one of those whales swam up really close.
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Ford studies the teeth of wild orca whales, of which there are three main varieties: resident (coastal killer whales that subsist primarily on fish), transient (coastal whales that eat marine mammals), and offshore (deep sea orcas that feed on schooling fish).
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According to WA Today three humpback whales got up close and personal with the first of many swimming with humpback whales encounter tours.
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Only six whales remain alive after this latest stranding, with over 140 short-finned pilot whales already confirmed dead, as reported by CNN.
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It's identified as the oldest known member of a group of whales called mysticetes, which includes modern baleen whales, according to the study.
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Hundreds of whales died overnight, and rescuers are now frantically working to save the dozens of remaining whales who are clinging to life.
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Since 2000, there have only been 23 recorded ship strikes involving whales in Washington — two of which involved humpback whales, the outlet reported.
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Many who heard about or saw the event expressed their shock and sadness that the killer whales nabbed so many young gray whales.
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The team genetically analyzed the DNA from the bones and found that two belonged to gray whales and three belonged to right whales.
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And not all species of whales are endangered, though the populations of some, like the blue and right whales, are at worrisome levels.
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The NMFS also listed the Mexican population of humpback whales as threatened, which will loosen but not eliminate the protections for these whales.
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Whales with different dialects avoid each other, suggesting some sort of "cultural identity at the clan level," which is also seen in Pacific whales.
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Reports of whales in 'poor body condition' Today, there are about 26,000 gray whales, found only in the Pacific Ocean, according to the center.
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In 2015 there was a huge spike in whales dying off the shores of Alaska, with 45 fin, humpback and gray whales found dead.
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But it seems to be the approach taken by pilot whales when faced with a pod of killer whales which are looking for dinner.
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Like all animals, killer whales need to eat, Frediani told me, and it just so happens they have a taste for other whales' blubber.
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The report focused on the so-called great whales, which are also called baleen whales because of the broom-like plates inside their mouths.
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"There aren't that many whales in the Mediterranean and the countries would really like to protect the whales in the ocean there," he added.
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The revelation of the penned whales in Srednyaya Bay prompted an investigation that found that permits to capture the whales had been issued illegally.
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But that doesn't explain why humans—along with killer whales, short-finned pilot whales, belugas, and narwhals—stop reproducing with decades left to live.
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Hundreds of Whales Are Dead Following a Horrific Mass Stranding in New ZealandIn what's considered the largest mass stranding in decades, over 400 pilot whales have beached…Read more ReadOn Thursday, more than 400 pilot whales were discovered at Farewell Spit in Golden Bay.
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In Wada, though whales are everywhere - including a giant skeleton by a museum and metal whales on a seawall - most people there on a recent afternoon were either surfing, driving, or fishing near the concrete dock where whales are drawn up to be butchered.
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The first wave of 400 whales marked this as the largest mass stranding of whales since 1985 when 450 were beached at Great Barrier Island.
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The whales are located at Farewell Spit near the city of Nelson, with volunteers doing what they can to help save the surviving 29 whales.
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The largest mass stranding of whales in the state occurred in 1996 when 320 long-finned pilot whales stranded themselves just north of Hamelin Bay.
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At least 17 of the roughly 450 remaining whales died last year — and with no calves born, the whales may once again be facing extinction.
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In a country spoiled for spectacular road trips, this stretch is one of the most breathtaking: Whales or no whales, it's definitely worth the drive.
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While they still use sailboats to harpoon sperm whales, they sometimes use motorboats to tow the sailboats to the whales to speed up the chase.
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Whales: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is proposing to monitor the survival of certain humpback whales that it does not believe are currently endangered.
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The encounter with these three whales was among five confirmed live sightings of True's beaked whales in this region of three Atlantic archipelagos called Macaronesia.
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Culture could help explain why the sperm whales around Dominica like to stay close to the island, and don't roam around as much as other whales.
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On four of these outings, the researchers watched in horror and amazement as groups of up to 20 orca whales attacked and killed lone beaked whales.
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A Vancouver aquarium that had its last two beluga whales die off in November will no longer be able to import or keep whales in captivity.
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Clearly the whales understood how the fishing boats worked; whales were observed following ships for up to 200 miles before making their move on the toothfish.
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People are most likely to see killer whales around Monterey Bay in April and May, when their prey, the gray whales, are migrating through the area.
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The scientists have heard more North Atlantic right whales here than they had expected, given the whales' migration path (from Canada to Florida), Mr. Rosenbaum said.
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According to the paper, the whales were once decimated by commercial whaling and other factors, leaving their over all population at 450 whales in the 1950s.
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" She is wary of becoming merely an outside observer: "When I describe the whales as vibrant, muscular, huge, the whales become visual objects separate from myself.
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Most are gray and humpback whales, which tend to swim closer to shore, while blue whales are more common in the open ocean, according to Milstein.
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Tokyo, which maintains many whale species are not endangered and that eating whale is a cherished cultural tradition, is halting the Antarctic research whaling that took some 330 minke whales a year, but will hunt minkes, sei whales and Bryde's whales in its exclusive economic zone.
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Today the acoustic, plastic, toxic pollution and strikes by ships are endangering whales everywhere worldwide, but if humanity can create the reserves necessary, if it can recognize the sanctity of whales in time it will salvage the depth charge of consciousness the whales represent to the oceans.
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The reports of entangled whales are on the rise — with 71 entangled whales reported off the West Coast from Mexico all the way to Canada in 2016.
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Baleen whales, a group that includes humpback and blue whales, are the largest animals on Earth, emerging during the Late Eocene Era around 35 million years ago.
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WATCHING WHALES AND SHARKS March to May, an estimated 20,000 gray whales migrate north from their breeding grounds off the Baja Peninsula, eventually reaching the Bering Sea.
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Pilot whales often have trouble navigating the waters around the area, but this stranding of over 400 whales is one of the worst in the country's history.
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Whalers pursued right whales for centuries because this species swam relatively slowly and floated when dead, so it was easier to kill and retrieve than other whales.
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I even gave whales Valium when we would do an invasive procedure, take a calf away from its mother, or move whales from one park to another.
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An international team of researchers has completed the first detailed investigation of the dental health of captive orca whales, finding damage in all of the whales studied.
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Even with the latest unusual mortality event, the eastern North Pacific population of gray whales has thrived, reaching a population of about 27,000 whales, according to NOAA.
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Right whales are baleen whales, so they filter feed, supporting their 70-ton weight — nearly as much as the Space Shuttle — solely with microscopic animals called zooplankton.
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There are plenty of things to see — fin whales tend to stay far offshore, but minke whales, humpbacks, dolphins, porpoises and puffins are usually easier to find.
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The largest mass stranding of whales in Western Austraila took place in 1996, when 320 long-finned pilot whales stranded themselves in the coastal town of Dunsborough.
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As right whales' preferred food, which are called copepods, move further north to avoid the warming waters, right whales are more concentrated in the US and Canada.
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It found that postmenopausal killer whales provided the biggest boost to their grandcalves' chances of survival, beyond that provided by grandmother killer whales that were still breeding.
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"They are walking the rope of their physiological limitations, and this makes beaked whales more vulnerable to human impact than other whales," Dr. Aguilar de Soto said.
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Russia, which is the sole supplier of wild orcas and beluga whales to China, in July announced an investigation into the illegal sale of 7 killer whales.
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But most entanglements involve gray and humpback whales, which tend to swim closer to shore, while blue whales are more common in the open ocean, according to Milstein.
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Pilots whales, which have rounded heads and mouthlines that curve upward to resemble a smile, are in the dolphin family and are smaller than orcas, or killer whales.
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Pilots whales, which have rounded heads and mouthlines that curves upward to resemble a smile, are in the dolphin family and are smaller than orcas, or killer whales.
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Whales are giant, beautiful, intelligent enigmas, and in Spying on Whales, Nick Pyenson takes us along on a journey to answer some of the biggest questions about them.
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So far this year, the small number of sightings here have underscored the growing perils along the East Coast to both humpback whales and North Atlantic right whales.
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Well, Type D whales look like killer whales, or orcas, but they have a more rounded head, smaller white markings around the eyes and a different body shape.
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Dr. Cerchio said many whale experts and amateurs thought they had seen Bryde's whales, a slightly larger species of baleen whale, when they were really watching Omura's whales.
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Marine biologist and whale expert Edda Elisabet Magnusdottir told the Iceland Monitor that when the whales enter shallow waters, "most of them have a tendency to become disorientated," adding that pilot whales tend to swim in groups, which explains the number of beached whales located on the beach in western Iceland.
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The U.S. Navy's sonar blasts in the Pacific and the Bahamas have caused irreparable damage to several species of whales and may have precipitated the many stranded pods of whales that have shown up around the world, such as the 45 sperm whales that were marooned in Tasmania in 2009.
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Frequently, when dead killer whales wash ashore, there are shark bits in their stomachs and the whales' teeth are worn to nubs from chewing through the sandpapery shark skin.
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As to seeing a pod of pilot whales take on killer whales, that would surely be the money shot of any wildlife documentary that managed to get the footage.
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The largest occurred in 1918 when 1,000 whales became stranded on the shore of the Chatham Islands, with the 1985 stranding of 450 whales in Auckland following in second.
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Researchers observed 22 instances of humpback whales gathering in never-before-seen groups of 20 to 200 whales, on three separate trips off the southwest coast of South Africa.
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Economists estimated the whales' value by considering tourism revenue, the ocean ecosystems whales help maintain and the carbon stored in each leviathan's blubbery bulk, the The Washington Post reports.
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In the northern hemisphere where the protections started in the 1940s and 50s, we have seen some very spectacular recoveries—humpbacks, finned whales, blue whales (on the West Coast).
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To prevent overhunting, commercial fishermen will be subject to a quota, currently set at 227 whales through the end of the year (in 2015 Japan reported taking 520 whales).
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PCBs remain the highest chemical contaminant in the whales' blubber, and are known to disrupt the whales' reproductive, endocrine, thyroid and immune systems, harm their brains and trigger cancer.
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The biggest mass stranding of whales in Western Australia happened in 1996, when 320 long-finned pilot whales beached themselves in Dunsborough, about 40 miles north of Hamelin Bay.
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Almost all of the largest whale species today, including blue whales and right whales, are navigating an increasingly urbanized ocean, full of larger and faster ships, noise and detritus.
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After measuring the heart rates of diving emperor penguins and captive whales, researchers from the University of Stanford decided to try to measure the heart rates of wild whales.
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They sang songs, doused the pilot whales with buckets of water, draped wet cloths and sheets onto the beached whales to keep them cool and helped with the refloating.
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The video footage and information on a whale's movement provides a fresh glimpse of the fish whales eat and how they respond to the movements whales make while hunting .
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From data and videos retrieved from tags on humpback whales, members of Dr. Goldbogen's lab are creating computer simulations of approaching whales to study the escape responses of fish.
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"Sound can travel enormous distances very fast and whales have evolved to take advantage of that," said Dr. Clark, who has listened to whales near Ireland from coastal Virginia.
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The DOC suspects that the whales were beached for an entire day prior to being detected, as some whales were half-buried in sand, and with so many already dead.
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"This is a very welcome addition to this endangered population of whales that has experienced so much bad news recently with whales appearing skinny and passing away," the organization said.
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The death brings the toll of dead or missing whales to seven in 2016, with the region's population of the whales down to 23 by the end of the year.
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What they did: The paper analyzed more than 1 million songs from three species of large baleen whales: fin, Antarctic blue and three acoustically distinct populations of pygmy blue whales.
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The larger whales would have been more difficult prey to tackle, but more importantly, the giant sharks couldn't leave their preferred warm waters in pursuit of the pole-bound whales.
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Even so, there have been multiple sightings of humpback whales getting into fights with killer whales when there's a seal present, making it seem like they're actually protecting the seal.
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"There may be changes in prey distribution that may be affecting where the whales are, and that may be contributing to a change in the whales&apos distribution," Goebel said.
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"Models predict concerning declines, and even local extinctions by 2100, for Pacific populations of blue and fin whales and Atlantic and Indian Ocean fin and humpback whales," the team reported.
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Common whales in Japanese waters include minke and Bryde's whales, according to Live Science, which are listed as "least concern" on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List.
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"The ability to track whales without traveling to these remote and inaccessible areas, in a cost-effective way, will be of great benefit to conservation efforts for whales," Cubaynes explained.
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"Once we have moved the whales out we will monitor the situation closely, as it is possible the whales will come back into shore and re-strand," Mr. Chick said.
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Overnight, 200 whales had been transported more than a mile to the dunes by two large excavators and two dump trucks, each capable of carrying 15 whales at a time.
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In the process, she stumbled on an array of reports of the whales from scientists, tour boats and students, including the young adult whales swimming in the newly reported video.
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This would include 94 instances for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale; over 11,85003 times for large whales like the Humback, Minke, Fin and Sperm; nearly 50,000 times for the small whale species including beaked whales and pilot whales; and over 380,000 times for all the dolphin species in the range.
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To learn more, they are starting a global genetic analysis of bones and tissues of beaked whales to find out if the True's beaked whales of the Southern Hemisphere are a different species from those of the north, because they're the only whales found in both, with a gap in the middle.
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For instance, blue whales twice the size of school buses and sleek fin whales, known as the "greyhounds of the sea" for their speed, use songs to find food and mates.
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New research shows that ancient whales had razor-sharp teeth similar to land-based carnivores—an observation that's upsetting a prevailing idea that ancient whales used their teeth for filter feeding.
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"We have direct evidence of male right whales singing, and we think this may be exclusive to males, but we have very limited data on vocalizing female right whales," said Crance.
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"On the whole, however, beaked whales are fairly mysterious—according to NOAA, they're "among the least known whales in the ocean, with several species identified only in the past few decades.
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Although the first whales evolved earlier, fossil evidence suggests that two large groups—the baleen and toothed whales—got their start during the Oligocene some 34 to 23 million year ago.
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University of Hawaii scientists said they will monitor the area and examine the dead whales, according to the AP. The decision to euthanize the four whales drew objections from some Hawaiians.
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THE ISLANDS AND THE WHALES The residents of the Faroe Islands, between Scotland and Iceland, find that the whales so central to their way of life have been contaminated by pollution.
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It's one of the most popular places to see whales "breach" during their annual migration—in fact, there are so many humpback whales, Uvita hosts an Annual Whale and Dolphin Festival.
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"Because whales are long-lived animals, long-term studies like ours are necessary," said Sears, who is planning another expedition to tag blue whales off the coast of Gaspé in September.
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" Uhhhhhhhhhhhnn ," the whales would moan in the next room.
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They've been replaced — at least temporarily — by migrating whales.
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News • Pregnant Whales Among Hundreds Killed in Japan Hunt.
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The global population of Antarctic minke whales is estimated to be around 500,000, so they are not threatened to the same extent as some cetacean species, such as blue whales or bowheads.
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"Whales are a great bio indicator of ocean health… so if you want to know what's going on with our oceans, there's no better species to look at than whales," Kerr says.
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This ancestor of the modern baleen whale gives us new information on how cetaceans evolved, showing that ancient whales were filter feeders even before developing the filtering structures modern whales use today.
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When the DOC arrived on the scene, around 250 to 300 whales had already perished, and by the time dawn broke this morning, more than 70 percent of the whales were dead.
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Gray whales, the most frequently spotted whales in California according to the Marine Mammal Center, migrate north towards Alaska this time of year from their breeding grounds off the Mexican Pacific coast.
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Because sharks have been successfully hunted and attacked by killer whales, Wynne's idea is to use the sounds of killer whales mixed with high frequencies (below 500 hertz) to scare sharks away.
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The signatures of these same SeaWorld managers were all over internal documents describing how dangerous the whales were and the need to have only the most experienced trainers work with certain whales.
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New Zealand's coastline may be particularly deadly for pilot whales, but they also frequently wash up elsewhere—within the past week, for instance, 29 pilot whales died in strandings on Australian shores.
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The team said the discovery has led them to more questions about the species as a whole, including whether the North Pacific right whales are unique or if all right whales sing.
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Towers told me by phone that researchers witnessed killer and sperm whales competing to steal fish from the longlines, and in some cases the whales even acted aggressively while competing for food.
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We encountered these infrequently sighted Killer Whales on the 9am trip aboard the SeaWolf II. This ecotype of Killer Whales often travels in large groups and were seen about this time last December.
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This news comes shortly after Leonardo DiCaprio tweeted out a plea for the whales on Tuesday, asking his more than 18 million followers to sign a petition demanding the release of the whales.
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"This is a very welcome addition to this endangered population of whales that has experienced so much bad news recently with whales appearing skinny and passing away," the organization said at the time.
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As if baby whales weren't enough to tug at your heart strings, the United States announced last week that most populations of humpback whales are no longer on the U.S. endangered species list.
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"This dolphin is singular today, but when we look at its ancestry, there are dozens of marine fossil whales closer to the South Asian River dolphin than to any other whales," Boersma said.
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The big picture: The behavioral changes seen in the whales might seem mild compared to mass strandings, but researchers still don't know the longer term health impacts sonar is having on the whales.
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"We had 240 whales strand yesterday in the afternoon and we were fearful we were going to end up with 240 dead whales this morning," Herb Christophers, a Department of Conservation spokesman said.
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Sea Shepherd Legal has argued that the Makah can maintain their traditions without killing whales, pointing to a neighboring tribe, the Quileute, that gave up whaling but holds an annual ceremony for whales.
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A family of sperm whales goes on a commando-style squid-hunting dive hundreds of meters down while we follow along from cameras that have apparently, somehow, been stuck on to the whales.
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Read more: At least 135 whales beached themselves and died in a mass stranding in AustraliaWalters said NOAA worked closely with Hawaiian cultural practitioners, who prayed before and after the whales were euthanized.
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Whales that live off the coast of Seattle, Tacoma and other cities are effectively urban whales buffeted by municipal and industrial waste, and the occasional spillage from wastewater treatment plants into the ocean.
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They must be able to collapse quickly enough to avoid rupturing when the whales dive deep (as some toothed whales do), but also to reinflate rapidly at the surface after two hours underwater.
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That's obviously time-consuming and dangerous — for people and whales.
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Eventually, this resulted in the emergence of filter feeding whales.
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Further attempts to save these whales will be made tomorrow.
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Three whales died from ship strikes and four from malnutrition.
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Maley is also working on how whales solve Peto's paradox.
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Of the three, only sei whales are listed as endangered.
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About 30,000 humpback whales swim through the area each year.
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Just like scuba divers, whales get the bends, she explained.
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Duignan said he hopes the whales' deaths aren't in vain.
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But she's not sunbathing or scanning the waves for whales.
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We saw two whales and a bunch of sea lions.
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Unlike some whales and dolphins, they're not attracted to boats.
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"Everybody likes the spring ones," she says of the whales.
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It seems the killer whales have decided, why stop there?
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In previous instances, the whales opted for the sharks' livers.
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There are real ways to save North Atlantic right whales.
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The SnotBot hovers above whales as they surface for air.
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Who knows what the whales are really talking about, anyway?
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Krill are food for whales, seals, penguins and other predators.
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Or maybe the whales are plotting to take down humanity.
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Many of the whales died before rescuers could reach them.
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We're also likely seeing the "bitcoin whales" finally cashing out.
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Some of the whales have even publicly announced their moves.
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Parks were also prohibited from featuring killer whales in performances.
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Previously, True's beaked whales had only been spotted three times.
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Right whales were hunted nearly to extinction by commercial whalers.
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Southern right whales only calve every three to four years.
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Beluga whales aren't hiding legs under their thick, rubbery skin.
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There are now only 72 whales left in the group.
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Japan claims it is killing minke whales for research purposes.
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Hopefully, it managed to save some whales in the process.
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And are the bitcoin whales in for a sad Christmas?
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Their beaks have also been found in the whales' stomachs.
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In 2011, his group recorded five whales in New York.
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The areas host vulnerable species like corals, turtles and whales.
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Now, scientists think there are just 1.3 million whales left.
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I have been tracking the sperm whales since 4 a.m.
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Possibly, predators such as toothy whales hunted them to extinction.
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Whales, dolphins and elephants could be protected from abuse, too.
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Fish aren't the only resource lost to the whales either.
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Attempts to dissuade the whales have so far been unsuccessful.
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For example, Beyoncé loves whales and wants to touch one.
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I went to the aquarium once and saw whales mating.
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Today these whales are not found in the Mediterranean Sea.
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It's not even clear how right whales find their food.
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These whales end up in extreme duress; stress hormones spike.
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Sound can also put whales under additional stress, he noted.
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Four whales had died on the beach as of Monday.
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But nature decides where the whales will be, not me.
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Eventually, the term was applied to a group of whales.
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And yet these superlative whales haven't been huge that long.
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Female right whales are also dying too young, Zoodsma says.
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The federal government listed humpback whales as endangered in 1970.
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There's also been research over the decades with beluga whales.
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Each situation is unique, and entangled whales can be unpredictable.
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A new study investigated how this increasing cacophony affects whales.
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Male humpback whales sing to attract mates, the researcher explained.
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The music made by male humpback whales is instantly recognizable.
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About 245,19003 gray whales were hunted between 21900 and 221.
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Today's treat — rogue pods of killer whales targeting fishing boats.
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Let's keep dolphins and whales singing, let's defend the MMPA.
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Worldwide, there are an estimated 50,000 killer whales, or orcas.
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Scientists still aren't certain, and maybe the whales aren't, either.
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Like humans, killer whales live in intensely social family groups.
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What have been your white whales of covering this investigation?
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Most animals die very shortly after the end of their fertile years, but dolphins and orca whales, like humans, tend to live past their reproductive years (cool fact: female orca whales go through menopause).
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But Fuchs said that the population of minke whales near Japan is already threatened, and Sam Annesley, the executive director at Greenpeace Japan, raised concerns about the commercial whaling of sei whales, among others.
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By turns earthy, philosophical, and quietly antic, Strøksnes glides through a range of topics, including sperm whales, literature, sperm whales in literature (à la Melville), natural history, biology, and the mysteries of human nature.
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According to a 2017 report, NOAA has introduced regulations that prohibit vessels from approaching within 200 yards of the whales, leveraged salmon habitat restoration, and conducted research to observe the conditions of the whales.
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Activists also argue that whales provide significant benefits to the ecosystem, pointing to research suggesting that whales can help to reduce the atmosphere's level of carbon dioxide, a gas that contributes to global warming.
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He's spent over a decade following the same individual whales around the Caribbean island of Dominica, and has found that sperm whales have a set of traditions, including dialects, that vary among their clans.
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But a new study based on modeling shows that they're lingering in the blubber of killer whales — and they may end up wiping out half the world's population of killer whales in coming decades.
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These whales, which have been named "Type D," look like killer whales to the untrained eye, but have a different body shape, a more rounded head, and smaller, narrowed white markings around the eyes.
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Baumgartner hopes these shocking new numbers and the unsuccessful breeding season for North Atlantic right whales causes the government to regulate fishing gear, allowing the fisherman to work in ways that would harm less whales.
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It's unclear why so many whales are dying, but trends show the whales have been following their food further North in recent years, possibly putting them in closer contact with fishing grounds and shipping lanes.
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Although the commercial hunting of whales in Brazilian waters is illegal, WCA says that whales are still victims of other human activities such as bycatch, sound pollution, ship strikes, marine debris, entanglement, and climate change.
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Whales cannot physically pump blood much faster than the rates observed in the new ECG recordings, according to the study, which may explain why we have never observed animals that are bigger than blue whales.
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The long life span of ambergris and its potential to preserve DNA from long-dead whales could also help scientists estimate populations of sperm whales far before they were pushed to the brink of extinction.
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Pandas, Minke Whales, Tigers - what do you make of their taste?
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He said ships could disturb wildlife such as walruses and whales.
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We want these whales now to be retired to sea sanctuaries.
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A gravitational wave detection is currently one of astrophysics' white whales.
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It sings but is never heard by fellow whales, they say.
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Lone male right whales tend to gunshot more frequently than females.
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Blue whales are among the biggest creatures on the planet today.
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Scientists think they know why these whales gained so much weight.
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Blue whales are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
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It calls its hunts "scientific research" and kills 333 minke whales.
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Iain Kerr has been studying whales for the last 30 years.
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Humpback whales are considered to be the most charismatic whale species.
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Entangled humpback and gray whales are more commonly found, NOAA said.
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"They had the whales holding up #Dstrong signs," his mom recalls.
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On top of that, pilot whales are notorious for stranding themselves.
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It may be because pilot whales are bigger than Risso's dolphins.
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With the dwarf whales gone, the megalodon was out of luck.
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This would leave North Atlantic right whales essentially extinct by 2040.
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Gray whales were removed from the Endangered Species List in 1994.
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Giant tech companies may anyway prey on both whales and minnows.
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The captive group includes 11 killer whales and 87 are belugas.
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" Gietler said, "Pilot whales are notoriously shy and difficult to photograph.
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Sperm whales have the most unique foreheads in the animal kingdom.
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The whales could easily have gone the way of the dinosaurs.
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It tells us just how much we don't know about whales.
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The whales' bodies showed evidence of blunt force trauma, Garron said.
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They captured recordings as the whales swam off the Australian coast.
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But no horses, deer, giraffes, kangaroos, big cats, bears, or whales.
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And whales aren't the only individuals who can swing the market.
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Whales, with ten times more again, should be barnacled with tumours.
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But whales may also harbour tumour-fighting genes unknown to science.
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Boppy Original Nursing Pillow and Positioner in Big Whales, $39.99; walmart.
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Dozens of sperm whales are seen off Sri Lanka's northeast coast.
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He believes the humpback whales have conditional probabilities in their language.
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"When the whales leave, the females look quite emaciated," he said.
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Japanese fisherman have been hunting minke whales in the Antarctic Ocean.
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Overall, whales and dolphins are rarely found in nature as twins.
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Wild salmon is a meal for killer whales, eagles, and bears.
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There's absolutely no reason to kill hundreds of whales for science.
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All the whales were tagged so NOAA can monitor their movements.
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That sonar harms marine mammals like whales, dolphins, seals, and walruses.
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The ultimate source of the carbon whales store is the atmosphere.
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The "Blackfish" film helped change norms for orcas, or killer whales.
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Large whales examined after they die are often filled with plastic.
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But 2016 has shown that Republican "white whales" can be caught.
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"The whales found this spot as a feeding ground," he said.
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Whales calling to each other remind him of his mother's calls.
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But 100 years ago a baseball team called itself the Whales.
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Whales, of course, are enormous — weighing up to 180 metric tons.
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Interaction with the sea creatures happens only if the whales choose.
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These would be different whales, from elsewhere, who do things differently.
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Whales, sea birds, penguins, squid and seals all feed off krill.
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Mr. Manby said, however, that SeaWorld's whales would remain in captivity.
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Put me on a beach where I can look at whales.
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Sperm whales are the largest toothed predators on Earth right now.
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But they had been heard from other whales elsewhere the Pacific.
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The state expects the number of dead whales to keep growing.
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But she said NOAA officials wouldn't let them near the whales.
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Whales, seals and penguins won't be the only ones to benefit.
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More than 300 whales beached themselves near Mason Bay in 1998.
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Two other whales beached themselves elsewhere in New Zealand, officials said.
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This ecosystem ultimately supports such predators as fish, penguins and whales.
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With bears, whales, and the northern lights present at every turn.
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A cordon was placed around two of the whales at Skegness.
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Trilobites DNA evidence shows that jetsam ambergris comes from sperm whales.
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Other researchers expressed concerns about the team's focus on lost whales.
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The project is called "Counting Whales From Space" (The Associated Press).
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The west was water, filled with whales that passed his house.
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This category doesn't just include spiders and humans, but whales, too.
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Researchers still don't know everything about how whales hear the sounds.
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Dead whales, stranded and decaying on beaches, can sometimes be weighed.
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Early whale ancestors were not fully aerodynamic like whales are today.
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Migration timing for whales could be be thrown off, McCabe says.
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Whales form exclusive "whale clubs," chat rooms to coordinate investment syndicates.
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At least 50 whales have died this decade, according to Mayo.
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Penguins eaten by killer whales who are devoured by polar bears.
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Plastic presents serious risks to hundreds of marine species beyond whales.
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Whales and ships and birds circling over floating gyres of garbage.
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"When you're in a small boat with 200 humpback whales around you -- they're 14-meter animals -- and you've got whales popping up all around you, it's a really incredible experience," lead researcher Ken Findlay told CNN.
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Though the surviving whales are back in the water, officials will be monitoring the situation closely, as "it is possible the whales will come back into shore and re-strand," Incident Controller Jeremy Chick told CNN.
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It is the first time any population of right whales has been known to break into song, the scientists say -- it is well documented that Southern and North Atlantic right whales restrict themselves to individual sounds.
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Overhead footage of the whales taken by drones in 2016 — part of another study tracking the whales' summer feeding habits — reveals that the animals are using the large rocks to rub dead skin off their bodies.
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Globally, fin whales are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and commercial hunting of the species was halted in Iceland for 20 years, though some whales were taken under scientific permits.
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If you were somehow able to return to an ancient shoreline and happened upon the entire assemblage of early whales, you wouldn't be able to guess which four-legged creature would beget the whales we know.
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This unparalleled database of killer whales was an important strength of the study, said Ruth Esteban, who researches killer whales with Conservation, Information and Research on Cetaceans in Spain, and did not participate in this research.
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After publishing his 2015 paper, in which he described more than 40 whales seen in the wild and expanded their range beyond the Indo-Pacific, Dr. Cerchio said people sent him pictures of similar looking whales.
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The non-profit Mingan Island Cetacean Study (MICS), which keeps a research station in Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, Quebec, on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, is interested in whales—blue whales, especially, but other species, too.
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One ongoing effort to help the whales thrive again is raising more Chinook salmon (also known as king salmon) in nearby hatcheries, but some aren&apost sure that&aposs enough—and losing the whales would be devastating.
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More recently, the Murmansk Sea Biology Research Institute in northern Russia looked into the perks of militant whales, and found that whales lack the "professionalism" typically displayed by obedient sea lions and dolphins, according to the Guardian.
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On Thursday, 51 pilot whales died after washing up on shores near the town of Owenga in the remote Chatham Islands, on the heels of another devastating stranding on Saturday that killed 145 whales on Stewart Island.
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Hoping to save more whales at the next high tide on Friday evening, rescuers took turns pouring water over the beached whales to try and keep them cool, while school children sang to soothe the distressed beasts.
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KUSHIRO, Japan (Reuters) - A small Japanese fleet caught their first whales on Monday in Japan's first commercial hunt in more than three decades, a move that has aroused global condemnation and fears for the fate of whales.
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It gets about 1,200 strandings per year, including whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
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The New South Whales government appointed Callinan for the review in February.
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With their razor-sharp teeth, ancient whales continued to chew their food.
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They set forth in inflatable speedboats to free whales from fishing lines.
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"The trainers aren't safe, and the whales aren't happy," Gabriela Cowperthwaite said.
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Large whales get stranded when they're sick or malnourished, according to NOAA.
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It's the third largest mass beaching of whales in the country's history.
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That's why generally several dozens, sometimes a couple hundred of whales strand.
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At one point, a school of whales started breaching in the water.
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It is not necessary to kill whales in order to study them.
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Image Courtesy of Nicholas PyensonBaleen whales (Mysticeti) are vacuums of the sea.
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North Atlantic right whales can still thrive if humans make it possible.
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Even with impressive rescue efforts, more than 300 of the whales died.
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The beaked whale being flanked by killer whales closely on each side.
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They bear a striking resemblance to cetaceans, such as dolphins and whales.
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They weren't able to retrieve any of the whales stranded in Alaska.
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Fish, whales and other animals depend on them as a food source.
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Granny is proof that killer whales live long beyond their reproductive years.
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SeaWorld San Diego plans to retain the 11 whales under its care.
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Some zoologists believe whales use it as an ocean-wide telephone system.
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This sort of empathetic or helpful behavior is not uncommon amongst whales.
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For humpback whales, it's all about quantity when it comes to food.
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That spawned huge populations of baleen whales' favorite foods, plankton and krill.
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Confess your feelings with this adorable card adorned with hearts and whales.
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Pilot whales suffer from mass strandings more frequently than any other whale.
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The gestation period for killer whales is between 17 and 18 months.
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Identifying patterns could show how humans have affected whales' migration, Allen said.
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Whales have hemoglobin, too — but they have a lot more of it.
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While this is the first known tune, right whales are not mute.
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Even though sonar from helicopters is quieter, the whales acted more evasively.
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What's more, hunting is arguably no longer the biggest threat facing whales.
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In the show, there are whales and baby raccoons and dead birds.
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But the nine other groups of humpback whales will lose their protections.
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That means that whales are in a lot more danger than guppies.
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No whales, humans or boats were harmed during the humpback's impressive leap.
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COLD SPRING HARBOR "Whales, Ales and Salty Tales," nautical singalong and storytelling.
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"The birds, fish, corals, seals, algae, turtles, dolphins and whales thank you."
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The remote location made it impossible to save the whales, officials said.
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Whales, it seems, are making a big splash in New York City.
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Scientists then retrieve the "whale cams" and apply them to other whales.
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Similar techniques have been used to estimate the age of bowhead whales.
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A conservation department worker spotted the whales washed ashore on Thursday evening.
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Losing an entire population of killer whales would be disastrous, she continued.
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Humans have spotted dolphins, whales and squirrels getting down with their dead.
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New York's waters are home to 20 species of whales and dolphins.
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We have turned right whales back from the edge of extinction before.
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Using an underwater microphone, we can eavesdrop on whales, orcas and dolphins.
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Mr. Hamilton emphasized the dangers to right whales, particularly from fishing gear.
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If severely disoriented by noise, whales can even become stranded and die.
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It's unclear why the pod of whales swam so close to shore.
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There were posters on his wall: "Whales of the World," a Lamborghini.
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Some researchers suggest the whales use it to stun their fish prey.
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NOOA helped the remaining six whales float back out into the ocean.
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This brings up a theoretical question: Can whales continue to get bigger?
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Once on the water, we spotted turtles and looked for humpback whales.
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There are now an estimated 25,000 western South Atlantic humpback whales today.
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But scientists don't entirely understand how gray whales accomplish this navigational feat.
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In Chukotka around 14,000 Chukchi hunt whales and walruses, or herd reindeer.
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The tribe had originally requested to harvest 20 whales every five years.
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Humpback whales south of the Equator are no longer considered endangered, though.
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Those countries that continue to execute whales should be brought to justice.
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"(Killer whales) are at the top of the food chain," Tarantino said.
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Whales also travel in groups — theirs are called pods — and hunt cooperatively.
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"It's part of what makes killer whales amazing animals," Dr. Giles said.
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Higher up the food chain, whales, seals and pelicans are going hungry.
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"The bears are not here because we hunt whales," said Mr. Thompson.
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Local Maori representatives offered a karakia, or prayer, over the dead whales.
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Recently, researchers examined seven beluga whales harvested by Inuvialuit hunters in Canada.
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He had also killed two other similarly strange whales the same day.
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Fish arrived by the tens of thousands, whales arrived by the hundreds.
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"To me, I love whales, I love sharks ... It's an adrenaline rush more than anything," Willis told KIRO7-TV after he filmed a close encounter with a pod of whales in Half Moon Bay back in July 2016.
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In a paper published in Marine Mammal Science, scientists looked at 115 recorded encounters between killer whales and humpback whales, to see if there was a pattern concerning the latter's tendency to engage in fights with the former.
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"We might imagine that whales just gradually got bigger over time, as if by chance, and perhaps that could explain how these whales became so massive," Graham Slater, a co-author on the study, said in a statement.
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Unlike the other whale species discovered during the research, gray whales and North Atlantic right whales are known to swim near the shoreline to reproduce and birth their calves, which could have made them targets for Roman hunters.
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Rees, who has worked as a whale watching guide, led the whale singing as part of an exhibition titled "North Atlantic Drift: Pursuing Whales", an examination, she says, of the human relationship with whales in the North Atlantic.
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She and her collaborators also speculated that two of the other click types possibly belonged to short-finned pilot whales and false killer whales, both members of the oceanic dolphin family that live in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "A Conversation With Whales," by James Nestor (Sunday Review, April 17): For more than a decade, I have led research on the Dominica Sperm Whale Project, a long-term study of wild sperm whales.
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He has suffered a great loss, but the illustrations of the magnificent gray whales swimming by the boat make us think that the spirit of his mom is still with him and the whales are helping to protect him.
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SeaWorld has been under fire after a 2012 book by David Kirby, "Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity," and a 2013 documentary, "Blackfish," assailed the treatment of killer whales at SeaWorld Orlando.
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The region is home to apex predators such as Antarctic minke whales and Ross Sea killer whales, in addition to one third of the world's Adélie penguins, emperor penguins, and nearly half the Southern Pacific population of Weddell seals.
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Under the program, a maximum quota of 333 minke whales are marked for slaughter each year, according to an information sheet from Japan's Fisheries Agency and Ministry of Foreign Affairs -- almost 4,000 whales over the duration of the program.
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I just did a performance, and the main themes were whales and fish.
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The "super groups" seemed fluid, as some whales joined them but then left.
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Researchers observed that some whales traveled from afar to join the massive groups.
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As the New Scientist pointed out, humpback whales aren't known for being social.
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That required stronger rope, which made it harder for whales to free themselves.
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Swimming with humpback whales has always been off limits on the west coast.
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Hundreds of volunteers tried to help, but 400 whales died over the weekend.
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IST: Around 36 whales have been rescued by fishermen, while 45 are dead.
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In all of last year, 45 gray whales were found onshore, NOAA said.
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More than 140 pilot whales have died following a mass stranding in Australia.
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Whale experts The septuagenarian Maeda brothers have decades of experience in pursuing whales.
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Bubble-net hunting, as far as biologists know, is unique to humpback whales.
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And a "mass stranding" of whales challenges conservationists and volunteers in New Zealand.
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More than 650 pilot whales have beached themselves here over the past week.
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Read More: Why Do These Whales Keep Rubbing Themselves On The Same Beaches?
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Similar tracks elsewhere have been linked to whales scraping themselves against the seafloor.
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Whales are heavily reliant upon sound to communicate in their murky, undersea worlds.
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These whales use their specialized beaks to suck up squid, fish, and crustaceans.
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Most whales, dolphins, and porpoises molt year-round — kind of like we do.
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It allows various indigenous groups around the world to hunt whales for "subsistence".
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Most of the species that have benefited from the moratorium are baleen whales.
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Researchers at SEASWAP are working to find new ways to avoid the whales.
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There is no one answer for why whales end up stranded on shore.
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The company said last year it would stop breeding killer whales in captivity.
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Whales are in danger from threats like noise pollution, trash, acidification and overfishing.
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At just 75 whales, the population is at its lowest in 30 years.
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Of the 14 whales found dead in BC, scientists performed necropsies on eight.
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Once the whales are back at normal cruising speed, they close their mouths.
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Iceland and Norway — the other two whaling nations — also kill whales with impunity.
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The dwindling population of endangered southern resident killer whales has fallen to 75.
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One of the beached Chatham Island whales also had to be put down.
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Heartbreaking scenes as more than 150 whales beached themselves in WA's south-west.
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The reef is home to thousands of species, including sharks, turtles and whales.
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Still, the Faroese continue to kill and consume hundreds of whales each year.
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One wore brightly colored shorts decorated with images of whales and other animals.
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A mesh style would prevent the whales from jaw popping leading to fractures.
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The painting measures 1,275 feet, the equivalent of 14 blue whales, in length.
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Ultimately, the team hope to discover how climate change will affect the whales.
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Surprisingly, the whales had different responses depending on the source of the sonar.
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Fin whales are an endangered species and the second-largest mammal on Earth.
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Whale sounding, then, is what it's called when whales dive to great depths.
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The sanctuaries improved protection of whales from pollution and entanglement in fishing nets.
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GREENWICH Raising Whales: How the Recovery of Cetaceans Can Help Restore the Oceans.
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So sure, go see some whales instead of wailing (silently) in your office.
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This is little surprise to many researchers who spend time around killer whales.
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And these whales aren't exactly spitting out offspring even in the best conditions.
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The exact reasons why whales and dolphins become stranded are not fully understood.
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The protected areas are critical to imperiled species like whales and sea turtles.
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Read and then take a swim with whales in a virtual reality feature.
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On the right side with blue whales Animals apparently have side preferences, too.
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Newborn blue whales weigh 13 kg — practically the weight of a small car.
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The fortunes of the New York region were once intimately linked to whales.
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As save-the-whales rhetoric rose up around him, he grew bad tempered.
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But more than 100 years ago, a baseball team called itself the Whales.
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They are a vital food source for animals including whales, seals and penguins.
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Fueling it up would add another 1,200 tons (six blue whales) of weight.
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The whales live in communities of neighboring families in a multicultural oceanic society.
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But genetics may not be particularly helpful when conserving populations of cultural whales.
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Whales are by any measure extraordinary but seem tragic in Dumas's fraught vision.
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In the mid-1960s, Japanese fishermen hauled in nearly 25,000 whales (see chart).
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Boat captains have similarly complained of nonstop harassment by pods of killer whales.
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Only the ancient boats are going to be able to attack the whales.
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A pod of Pilot whales swim with photographer Greg LeCoeur in Nice, France.
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There are fewer than 50 Bryde's whales remain in the Gulf of Mexico.
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P.S. If international treaties are so effective, why are Norwegians still killing whales?
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These toxins suppress the whales' immune systems, making them more susceptible to disease.
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The film "Blackfish" didn't just attack SeaWorld for keeping orca whales in captivity.
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Until recently, little had been known about the molting habits of bowhead whales.
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Blue and fin whales, for instance, differ in size, color and body shape.
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With only about 100 breeding female right whales left, we haven't much time.
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Sea World is going to stop breeding killer whales in captivity, NPR reports.
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MONTEREY BAY, Calif — Tourists come here from around the world to watch whales.
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Particularly striking is that many of the whales washed ashore have been emaciated.
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The health of these gray whales depends on the health of the ocean.
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The whales were held for months in pens in the country's Far East.
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The whales were initially captured by four private companies linked to one man.
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Some killer whales eat smaller mammals, including seals, while others eat only fish.
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Among other things, Russian law forbids capturing whales from a group with babies.
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Everyone—the developers, the players, the whales, the people who paid nothing—lost.
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And, hey, do you think whale songs send baby whales to sleep, too?
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I was promised whales by the dozens, plain as day, seen from land.
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Instead, Pisciotta and other practitioners performed a death rite for the euthanized whales.
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Here are Bluefin tuna in close to shore, whales, gannets divebombing in formation.
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Most are gray and humpback whales, which tend to swim closer to shore.
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Scientists can't figure why humpback whales are beginning to congregate in big numbers.
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On one fateful day, Kerr was chasing whales but finding them particularly uncooperative.
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In the end, ocean noise is a "problem" for humpback whales, said Fire.
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Six surviving whales had been returned to the sea as of 7.00 p.
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"The research here is very clear: Those orca whales are starving," Rosenfield said.
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That so many whales could have gone extinct should cause us to shudder.
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But orca whales, salmon, and other critically threatened fish could pay the price.
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An expedition first needed to find whales in the vastness of the oceans.
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The beach has been temporarily closed while authorities dispose of the deceased whales.
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Grandmother whales are also known to share food with their daughter&aposs calves.
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Attempts to refloat the remaining whales during high tide met with partial success.
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Volunteers said they would try to refloat the stranded whales again on Saturday.
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But the high number of whales trapped this year has surprised conservation officials.
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Whales become stranded most often when they are ill or injured, NOAA says.
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"We're really not seeing the whales die of natural causes anymore," she said.
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But understanding more about beaked whales is important for protecting the extreme divers.
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"I don't think Japanese people really know very much about whales," he said.
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Go deeper: TripAdvisor ends ticket sales for attractions that showcase dolphins and whales
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Often whales will turn and attack; many Lamalerans have died in these struggles.
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Cuvier's beaked whales are among the most mysterious and adept mammals on Earth.
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Just like humans, whales can become grandmothers while they're still having babies themselves.
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Voronenkov joined F.S.K.N. at the time Three Whales was coming to its conclusion.
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Nobody knows why, exactly, there are suddenly so many whales here this year.
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The [visual culture] represents an important relationship between the people and the whales.
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We have filter-feeding whales and great white sharks off of our coasts.
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Eleven orcas (killer whales) and about 90 white whales, caught in the summer and fall of 2018, remain detained in cramped enclosures in Srednyaya Bay, though Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the case to be resolved by March 1.
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Hundreds of whales dead after mass stranding Mass stranding Grant told CNN that the department had spent Monday monitoring a pod of whales still in the Golden Bay area from the coastline amid concerns that they would also beach themselves.
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"When you have whales chasing the bunker, and fishermen chasing the stripers that chase the bunker, accidental interactions between whales and vessels can occur," Jeff Ray, a deputy special agent with NOAA's law enforcement division, said in the Coast Guard's release.
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She narrowed a list of gray whale strandings kept by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to highlight the percentage of whales that were stranded alive, as well as whales that were released back to sea and seemed to recover.
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But in 2019, hundreds of North American gray whales washed ashore dead, and experts suggest they were just 10% of the total number of dead whales last year, since other carcasses sank to the ocean floor or were eaten by predators.
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"This is an unusual but sadly not unprecedented case — sperm whales and other deep-diving beaked whales have been found stranded around the coasts of Europe for years with marine litter of some description in their stomachs," Dr. Brownlow said.
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"These whales, like others, regularly leap from the water, landing with a tremendous splash."
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While people flocked to take photos next to the whales, others condemned the messages.
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Colorado prior to its Super Tuesday caucus, are the white whales of American politics.
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All of SeaWorld's whales that were born after that date were bred in captivity.
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Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to exist, according to the WWF.
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Lynch and his team are currently exploring how whales and bats solve Peto's paradox.
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You quite often see killer whales, puffins, even ospreys.... I can't do it justice.
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Other scientists claim that 52 can be heard, that the other whales aren't deaf.
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He enjoys showing tourists fin whales, the second largest of the world's whale species.
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Plastic has been found inside marine animals including sea turtles, seals, whales and birds.
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In modern filter-feeding whales, these grooves contain blood vessels that supply the baleen.
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Young whales can be somewhat unpredictable, so the two attempted to keep their distance.
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In the 2016-000 season, its fleet took 333 minke whales in the Antarctic.
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We were circling over it not sure if it was whales, seals or dolphins.
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The only direct evidence of whales in the CCZ, though, comes in fossil form.
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Female short-finned pilot whales usually have a maximum lifespan of around 60 years.
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Their video is the first-ever recording of these elusive whales in the wild.
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For example, scientists don't know enough about these whales to estimate the population size.
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