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(Natural News) On the lookout for killer whales in the famous Bremer Canyon area of Western Australia, marine wildlife researcher Rebecca Wellard stumbled across an appalling sight: A trio of plastic drums used for hydrochloric acid storage, bobbing in the bio-diverse waters of the marine reserve, reported The West Australian.

University of Queensland and CSIRO PhD student Viv Tulloch, affiliated with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, said this was the first time researchers had used this approach to predict future Southern Hemisphere whale numbers.

While the researchers in the current study can't pinpoint exposure, people in the Faroe Islands eat a lot of seafood, such as whale meat and blubber — which act like storage containers for these persistent chemicals.

Researchers want to know why the whales have such long post-reproductive lifespans and what their experiences may mean for short - finned pilot whales and humans — the only other mammalian species known to undergo menopause.

Known to provide nutrients for whales and pose a hazard to shipping, the Luzon Strait internal waves move west at speeds as fast as 3 meters (18 feet) per second and can be as much as 500 meters (1,640 feet) from trough to crest, the researchers found.

A clue to this puzzling decline appeared in 1991, when researchers witnessed for the first time a killer whale eating an otter.

The researchers don't know exactly what is prompting the whales to eat otters, but Estes asserts that the chain of events leading to the otter's decline may have been triggered by a boom in commercial fishing in the Bering Sea — which could have sharply curtailed or altered the food supply for sea lions and seals.

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.

Analyses of data for these lengthy dives reveal that the colder the waters were at maximum depth, the more time the whale sharks spent basking at the surface immediately afterward, the researchers report online today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

His team will tag two dozen whales with radio transmitters, enabling researchers to watch for changes in their movements and behavior.

Besides researchers wading knee - deep in blood, the whale's fatty oils stick to skin and hair, and the smell can last for years.»

By affixing DTAGs — synchronous motion and acoustic recording tags — to the whales» backs via four suction cups, the researchers could track for the first time the movements of the whales below the ocean's surface.

This may mean whales are hunting for more surface - dwelling prey at those times or traveling, according to the researchers.

Researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas, published work in The Journal of Biological Chemistry comparing the oxygen carrying proteins of whales, humans, and other deep - diving mammals and found that the whales have an ultrastable version, allowing them to stay submerged for long periods of time.

Researchers saw dining in progress and lowered a GoPro camera on a pole for an underwater view of the whale swooping by.

«These are the first direct measurements of individual responses for any baleen whale species to these kinds of mid-frequency sonar signals,» said Brandon Southall, SOCAL - BRS chief scientist from SEA, Inc., and an adjunct researcher at both Duke and the University of California Santa Cruz.

The data obtained allow researchers to compare the Miocene whale feeding habits to those of the extant sea whale, and strengthen the preservation potential of the Ica desert for the marine vertebrate fossil record.

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.

It was later in the Austral fall than researchers had ever ventured into the area, late enough that any whales should be departing for warmer waters.

In the 1970s and 1980s, for example, researchers argued that reducing certain whale populations would aid stocks of krill, a ubiquitous crustacean in the Southern Ocean that is a key food source for baleen whales and other marine species.

«It's going to be a game changer for whale and dolphin research,» provided that researchers can figure out how to interpret all the compounds, says Kathleen Hunt, a research scientist at the New England Aquarium in Boston, who was not involved in the present study.

Now several researchers are proposing a possible solution: Create a cap - and - trade market for swapping permits to kill or conserve whales.

Although the tags registered only 32 clear calls, those were enough for the researchers to conclusively link the sound to the minke whales.

«I think this paper is novel in that we're presenting some of the first indirect effects of sea ice loss for an Arctic whale species,» said lead author Donna Hauser, a postdoctoral researcher at the UW's Polar Science Center and former doctoral student at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.

To address this challenge, researchers harnessed modern technology, creating an online photo database called Wildbook for Whale Sharks and enlisted the help of ecotourists and citizens across the globe to upload any images of whale sharks they happened to see or encounter anywhere in the wWhale Sharks and enlisted the help of ecotourists and citizens across the globe to upload any images of whale sharks they happened to see or encounter anywhere in the wwhale sharks they happened to see or encounter anywhere in the world.

Whale researchers don't know how big the population was before that, but it was devastated enough for the right whale to be given protected status in Whale researchers don't know how big the population was before that, but it was devastated enough for the right whale to be given protected status in whale to be given protected status in 1935.

Researchers must understand their subjects only by glimpses, bodies on beaches, orby what RV Shearwater is doing today, which is taking samples of water, squirting them with formaldehyde, then analyzing how rich the water is in copepods and what that means for the reproduction, health, and survival of the right whale.

In the future, genetic analyses can greatly increase researchers» still very limited understanding of whale shark ecology and the status of what appears for now to be at least 2 populations.

Whale shark habitat spans the globe, making long - term research over wide geographic ranges a difficult challenge for whale shark researcWhale shark habitat spans the globe, making long - term research over wide geographic ranges a difficult challenge for whale shark researcwhale shark researchers.

And in 2006, scientists reported in the journal Biology Letters that a killer whale in Nootka Sound, British Columbia, could imitate a sea lion's bark — likely because the orca was solitary «and striving for attention,» said Griffin, one of the researchers who analyzed those calls.

For the study, researchers analyzed North Pacific killer - whale strandings dating back to 1925.

Swiss researchers have created a new, more efficient method to produce sclareol, a substitute for whale - derived ambergris used by perfume makers.

UL Lafayette researchers had an edge when they applied for a $ 5.2 million grant to study whales and dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

A rare opportunity to study Oligocene whales presented itself recently, when the Smithsonian got back an unusual cetacean skull that had been on loan to another researcher for years.

While Dr. Eades is correct that glycogen tends to degrade rather quickly from muscle meat, here we have a study where the average post-mortem time for flensing was 28.4 hrs and the researchers still found that Sperm Whale blubber contained «significant» carbohydrate reserves.

Orca (Killer) Whales Researchers from around the world have been coming to Vancouver Island to study the Orca (Killer) whales for a few decades making Orca whales here the best studied whales in the Whales Researchers from around the world have been coming to Vancouver Island to study the Orca (Killer) whales for a few decades making Orca whales here the best studied whales in the whales for a few decades making Orca whales here the best studied whales in the whales here the best studied whales in the whales in the world.

Researchers say that environmental contaminants may block the fine filters which whale sharks have for feeding, and the chemicals in sunscreen may be hazardous to them.

No one can swim with whales and / or dolphins, except for scientific researchers and these laws are instituted to protect these animals.

Researchers from around the world have been coming to Vancouver Island to study the Orca (Killer) whales for a few decades making Orca whales Read More...

Our animal care team interacts with our resident beluga whales daily, helping researchers better understand best practices for approaching and interacting with whales in the ocean in a controlled way.

We partner with a leading whale shark Researcher, Deni Ramirez, for all of our whale shark tours; so not only do you get the thrill of a lifetime, a portion of your tour cost goes back to supporting this important research.

More recent trips caught footage of a pod of orcas teaching its young how to hunt, which digitally raced around the world of marine mammal scientists, participated in a penguin census, and logged polar bear and whale identification photos for researchers who track global populations of these animals.

The researchers can use the image to monitor the growth of the young whales, and some of the photos suggest that some of the female whales are pregnant, more good news for this small population.

The drone surveys will allow researchers to see where and when the whales are most impacted by these threats and hopefully lead to better protections for the animals.

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Researchers have documented for years how noise pollution impacts dolphins in whales, but a new study in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment finds that even low intensity noise can...

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In the 1970s and 1980s, for example, researchers argued that reducing certain whale populations would aid stocks of krill, a ubiquitous crustacean in the Southern Ocean that is a key food source for baleen whales and other marine species.

While researchers have known for awhile now that the blubber of these animals contain toxins, they're now seeing the those whales and dolphins living near urban areas have higher concentrations.

Now researchers from NOAA Fisheries, Oregon State University and the University of Maryland have combined that trove of tracking data with satellite observations of ocean conditions to develop the first system for predicting locations of blue whales off the West Coast.