News tagged with pilot whales
Nine rescued whales beach again in Australia
Mar 25, 2009 |
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All but one of the 10 whales that survived a mass beaching on Australia's west coast were Wednesday believed to have come back ashore and were unlikely to survive, authorities said.
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Whales die in Tasmanian stranding
Oct 30, 2005 |
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Scientists are trying to determine what caused scores of pilot whales to beach themselves in Tasmania.
Briefs: No conclusion in whale stranding study
Mar 30, 2006 |
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The National Marine Fisheries Service says it cannot determine if Navy sonar caused 36 whales to become stranded on the North Carolina shore last year.
Study Positively Identifies Giant Squid Presence in Gulf of Mexico
Sep 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- During a recent research cruise, a rare giant squid was captured in the Gulf of Mexico.
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 ...
Whale sonar: Two pings are better than one
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Many whale species have sonar systems that send out two pings at once, allowing them to detect underwater objects with greater accuracy than even the most sophisticated human technologies, according to a study ...
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 ...
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 singing with deeper voices
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Blue whales, the largest animals on earth, are singing with deeper voices every year, but scientists are unsure of the reason.
Another dolphin stranding off Cape Cod
Jan 29, 2006 |
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Massachusetts wildlife officials say they have no idea why so many dolphins and whales have been stranded this winter on Cape Cod.
Sonar reference dropped from whale report
Jan 20, 2006 |
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A document made public as a result of a court order says a U.S. government investigator studying the stranding of whales dropped references of naval sonar.
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