Sentences with phrase «humpback whale researcher»

The whale was identified as «Inukshuk» by both our onboard marine biologist Alison on the Kuluta and Jackie Hildering, Stubbs Island Educator and Humpback Whale Researcher, who was on the Lukwa.

Not exact matches

Researchers have observed humpback whales defending smaller sea animals from killer whale attacks: pic.twitter.com / rCmJVNiiKm

The specimen, which researchers unearthed in the Pisco Basin in southern Peru, is the oldest known member of the mysticete group, which includes the blue whale, the humpback whale, and the right whale.

Humpback whales migrate farther than any other mammal, say researchers who tracked them along their more than 5,000 - mile route.

The tail markings reveal that it is the same humpback whale, which puzzles researchers because the over -6,000-mile trek is two times the typical seasonal journey of a whale, not to mention that it's a female; males whales are the ones who normally travel long distances.

Researchers attached cameras to humpback whales and found that they flap their flippers to help power forward swimming.

The researchers estimate that there are approximately 22,000 humpbacks throughout the North Pacific — about the same as before whaling reduced their numbers.

For example, researchers can recognize individual humpback whales because each whale has a unique black - and - white pattern on the underside of its tail flukes.

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environment.

A team of researchers studying humpbacks in the southern Gulf of Maine, mostly the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and Great South Channel, used tags to track the whales» motion and sound underwater.

The fossil is the oldest known mysticete, a group that includes baleen whales, such as humpbacks, researchers report in the May 22 Current Biology.

Vervet monkeys and humpback whales both copy behaviors from their neighbors, researchers report April 25 in Science.

Most of all, the researchers would like to understand why humpback whales, of all species, resemble humans in their love for ever - changing yet conformist fashion.

Researchers determined the whales» current population numbers by comparing photographic shots of humpbacks in their North Pacific feeding grounds (around the Pacific Rim from California to Kamchatka) to images taken of the whales in their southern, tropical breeding areas — some as far as 3000 miles away.

The researchers theorize that humpback side rolls may be similar to the feeding technique of gray whales in the Pacific.

But now thanks to the international whaling ban, researchers say there are at least 21,000 humpbacks, and possibly even more, according to numbers reported in this month's Marine Mammal Science.

But during the 6 weeks the researchers spent on the Gould documenting the interaction between humpbacks and krill in Wilhelmina Bay and nearby waters, they counted 306 humpbacks parked on the huge krill swarm, and a total of 500 throughout the unusually ice - free bay at the record - setting density of 5.1 whales per square kilometer.

Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti worked with researchers and wildlife experts to collect billions of data points, taken from digital tags on humpback whales, magnetic fields tracking badgers, QR codes mapping an individual ant, and more.

Witnessing the return of Humpback Whales to our area led Jackie to becoming a whale researcher and co-founding the Marine Education and Research Society.

Andrew Wilson, a researcher at ESO Whale and Dolphin Research Group with his company Five Oceans, gave a very informative presentation about Oman's Humpback Whale population.

To put it in the cautious words of a researcher: «[Humpback] whales feed almost exclusively on krill in the Antarctic and it's unknown what effect an expanding krill fishery in conjunction with climate warming might be having on the abundance of krill.»

In the Globe and Mail this morning, I learn that researchers have found that the songs of male humpback whales change from year to year and, indeed, propagate throughout the world community of humpbacks, rather in the way that pop tunes spread among human beings — or the way that negative advertising infects ever larger portions of the polity.