News tagged with humpback whales
Study finds southern Indian Ocean humpbacks singing different tunes
A recently published study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and others reveals that humpback whales on both sides of the southern Indian Ocean are singing different tunes, unusual since humpbacks in the ...
Feb 01, 2012 |
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German engineers mimic humpback whale to increase helicopter stability
(PhysOrg.com) -- Whale researchers have known for some time that humpback whales are able to perform feats of underwater acrobatics that belie their huge size and that some of that ability is partly due to ...
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Surfboard-sized drones crossing pacific to monitor sea surface
Hundreds of miles off the California coast, four drones about the size of surfboards and are tossing across the Pacific toward Hawaii, controlled by pilots on shore.
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Jan 18, 2012 |
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Researchers find Sydney whales unfazed by whale watching
A team of researchers from Macquarie University and Taronga Zoo has just released the results of a study into the effects of whale watching on the behavior of migrating humpback whales.
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Whales off Calif. coast draw crowds, warning
(AP) -- The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday monitored the waters off Santa Cruz, where a pod of whales has settled unusually close to shore drawing crowds and threatening the safety of kayakers and other boaters ...
Nov 02, 2011 |
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New, higher estimates of endangered humpback whales in the North Pacific
Scientists have increased the estimate on the number of humpback whales in the North Pacific Ocean in a paper published in the journal Marine Mammal Science. The increase follows a refined statistical analys ...
Oct 18, 2011 |
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Rare white whale calf spotted off Australia
An extremely rare white humpback whale calf has been spotted near Australia's Great Barrier Reef in an event witnesses described Thursday as a "once in a lifetime experience".
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Australia's Coral Sea is 'biodiversity hotspot'
The Coral Sea off Australia's northeast coast is one of the last remaining places brimming with large predatory fish such as sharks and tuna, a study released Saturday found.
Aug 20, 2011 |
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Baby whale to be put down after second beaching
A baby humpback whale which was rescued after beaching off Australia's east coast this week will be put down after failing to find its mother and stranding itself again.
Aug 10, 2011 |
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Humpback whales catch prey with bubble-nets
Marine biologist David Wiley of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and others report in the latest issue of Behaviour (Volume 148, Nos. 5-6) how humpback whales in the Gulf of Maine catch prey with a ...
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Record number of whales, krill found in Antarctic bays
Scientists have observed a "super-aggregation" of more than 300 humpback whales gorging on the largest swarm of Antarctic krill seen in more than 20 years in bays along the Western Antarctic Peninsula.
Apr 27, 2011 |
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Humpback whale migration as straight as an arrow
(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the last eight years, researchers from the University of Canterbury have been tracking 16 radio-tagged humpback whales through their migratory paths and learned that these whales follow ...
Apr 22, 2011 |
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New wintering grounds for humpback whales using sound
Researchers at the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), an organized research unit in the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology have made ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Whale-inspired ocean turbine blades
Interest in developing alternative energy sources is driving the consideration of a promising technology that uses underwater turbines to convert ocean tidal flow energy into electricity.
Nov 28, 2010 |
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Humpback whale beats long-distance record
A humpback whale has broken the world record for travel by any mammal, swimming at least 9,800 kilometres (6,125 miles) from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean in search of a mate, marine biologists reported ...
Oct 13, 2010 |
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