Sentences with phrase «says whale researcher»

«I would bet the farm that whaling will continue in the future much as it has, albeit with some flimsy window dressing to make it look like they're complying with the spirit of the ruling,» says whale researcher Phillip Clapham of the National Marine Mammal Laboratory.

Not exact matches

Those remains — the first of any toothed whale to also include fossils of its presumed prey, researchers say — were unearthed along the southwestern coast of Peru last year.

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.

The new research is the first to document handedness in blue whales and the first evidence of a marine mammal favoring a different side of its body depending on feeding depth, the researchers say.

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

Japanese researchers say they are studying such things as the cetaceans» health, ages, and diets, and which whales belong to which populations.

A group of researchers says that the closest known evolutionary cousin of whales, dolphins and porpoises is not the hippopotamus, as conventional wisdom has it, but an extinct deer - like animal roughly the size of a fox or raccoon.

Over the past 15 years, researchers have uncovered a series of fossils intermediate between whales and land animals, but were still missing a link to landlubbing beasts, which Thewissen says Indohyus now provides.

«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.

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.

«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.

The adaptations resemble those of early whales and today's hippopotamus, and make Spinosaurus the only dinosaur known to swim, the researchers say.

The researchers do not yet know the purpose of the whales» calls, but say that they should help them unravel other mysteries, including the minke whales» overall abundance and migration patterns.

«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.

A disproportionate number of right whale researchers are, says Beth.

This adaptability to changes in Arctic conditions speaks to the whales» resiliency, the researchers said.

«This provides us with a really good idea of what the most ancient baleen whales were like,» says researcher Erich Fitzgerald of Monash University, Melbourne.

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.

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.

The Minke whale, which researchers think might be a female, was reported on Tuesday in an area near Alamere Falls, said Marine Mammal Center spokesman Jim Oswald.

Lead researcher, Rosalind Rolland, of the New England Aquarium, in Boston, America, says, «We showed whales occupying oceans with high levels of ship noise have a chronic stress response.

From polar areas to equatorial waters, the whales ingested pollutants that may have been produced by humans thousands of miles away, the researchers said.

Rules intended to protect people from pollution are simultaneously saving the lives of whales by slowing down cargo ships, but researchers say more still needs to be done.

Researchers say that after six long decades, an extremely rare Right whale has been spotten yet again off the Canadian coast — a species many suspected would never return again.

While the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has already proposed a law to keep ships at least 600 feet from whales, at least one researcher says this wouldn't make any difference.