News tagged with blue whales
Blue whales disturbed by seismic surveys: scientists
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Seismic surveys used for oil and gas prospecting on the sea floor are a disturbance for blue whales, the world's biggest animal and one of its rarest species, biologists reported on Wednesday.
Blue whales found near NY, off their usual path
May 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- There's a monster lurking off the coast of New York. Experts in a Cornell University acoustics program said Thursday that blue whales have been positively identified in the area for the first time.
Blue whales returning to former Alaska waters
May 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say.
Blue whales re-establishing former migration patterns: research (w/Video)
May 11, 2009 |
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Scientists have documented the first known migration of blue whales from the coast of California to areas off British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since the end of commercial whaling in 1965.
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Third blue whale found dead in California
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Sep 23, 2007 |
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Sharks gnawed at its carcass Saturday as the third blue whale to die off California in two weeks was towed to a beach for examination.
Mariners urged to look out for whales
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Oct 01, 2007 |
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The U.S. Coast Guard has warned mariners to take care to avoid hitting whales, after three whales were killed off the California coast.
Rare blue whale found dead on New Zealand beach
May 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The carcass of a rare blue whale washed ashore in southern New Zealand after it apparently died of old age, a marine expert said Thursday.
Iceland to resume commercial whaling
Oct 18, 2006 |
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Iceland plans to begin commercial whaling, defying the international moratorium that has been in place for 20 years.
Researcher reveals humpback whales' dining habits -- and costs
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Nov 27, 2008 |
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As most American families sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, a University of British Columbia researcher is revealing how one of the largest animals on earth feasts on the smallest of prey – and at what cost.
Whales are polite conversationalists
Oct 26, 2009 |
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What do a West African drummer and a sperm whale have in common? According to some reports, they can both spot rhythms in the chatter of an ocean crowded with the calls of marine mammals -- a feat impossible for the untrained ...
Study Finds Beaked Whales' Tusks Evolved Through Sexual Selection Process
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, scientists have wondered why only males of the rarely seen family of beaked whales have “tusks,” since they are squid-eaters and in many of the species, these elaborately modified ...
Studies Shed New Light on Blue Whales and Their Calls
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Feb 27, 2007 |
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Using a variety of new approaches, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego are forging a new understanding of the largest mammals on Earth.
Fin whales' big gulp
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Nov 27, 2007 |
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Some baleen whales, in their powerful feeding lunges, gulp a volume of water equal to a school bus, according to new calculations by biologists at the University of British Columbia and the University of California, ...
Some fear Navy sonar may harm Fla.'s right whales
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- In the blue-green surf, 11 endangered North Atlantic right whales surface, jump and shoot mist high into the air through their blow holes.
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