Sentences with phrase «right whale populations»

The Aquarium has partnered with scientists from Woods Hole to monitor right whale populations in our state.

Scat collection rates rose significantly, allowing Rolland to track stress hormones in the right whale population.

Not exact matches

In one year, a Soviet expedition took 1200 right whales, the most endangered of large whales, from a world population estimated at only 2500 animals.

New lice species would have arisen precisely when the right - whale populations diverged.

Three distinct populations of right whales roam the seas today: in the North Pacific, the North Atlantic, and the southern oceans.

Already, northern right whales have a Potential Biological Removal (PBR) of less than 1, the number that can safely be removed from their population each year by human causes.

North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) are among the most endangered of all marine mammals: despite a recent population uptick, only about 450 remain.

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.

Take the right whale, a plankton - loving giant of which three populations exist: one in the northern Atlantic, another in the northern Pacific, and one in the Southern Ocean, which includes the southern parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.

North Atlantic right whales - a highly endangered species making modest population gains in the past decade - may be imperiled by warming waters and insufficient international protection, according to a new Cornell University analysis published in Global Change Biology.

Canada worked hard to create the Right Whale Recovery Plan, and our federal government must take decisive action to protect this population before we again start seeing a downward trend in their numbers.

Just over an hour's drive from PE it is home to one of the densest African elephant populations on earth, but also lays claim to Africa's Big 7, including the southern right whale and great white shark.

The IWC Bowhead, Right and Gray Whale subcommittee in 2011 reiterated the conservation risk to western gray whales is large because of the small size of the population and the potential anthropogenic impacts.

Right whales carry large populations of three «whale lice» (Cyamus o.valis, Cyamus g.racilis, Cyamus e.rraticus) that have no other hosts.

We used sequence variation in the mitochondrial COI gene to ask (i) whether cyamid population structures might reveal associations among right whale individuals and subpopulations, (ii) whether the divergences of the three nominally conspecific cyamid species on North Atlantic, North Pacific, and southern right whales (Euba.laena glac.ialis, Eubal.aena jap.onica, Euba.laena aust.ralis) might indicate their times of separation, and (iii) whether the shapes of cyamid gene trees might contain information about changes in the population sizes of right whales....

This whale population, hunted nearly to extinction generations ago, is slowly recovering, with an estimated 450 right whales dividing their time between winter calving areas off the southeastern United States and summer feeding grounds from New England north.

A. Several whale populations are indisputably endangered, including western gray whales (eastern gray whales, which are the population of gray whales found on the Pacific coast of North America, are no longer considered endangered), eastern bowhead whales, North Atlantic and Pacific right whales, blue whales, and most humpback whales.

Southern right whale and western bowhead whale populations are depleted but appear to be recovering; this does not mean that they should no longer be considered endangered, but simply that they are doing much better than their cousins in terms of recovery.

Newly available shipping lanes through the Northwest Passage would greatly shorten the trip between Europe and East Asia, but would likely cross the migratory route of any right whales that occupy the region.It's vital that we know about right whales in this area in order to effectively avoid ship strikes on what could be a quite fragile population.