Sentences with phrase «sperm whale populations»

Large quantities of ambergris nay have washed up on the shores of Ambergris Caye before intense whaling of the - 1800's and early 190O's decimated the sperm whale populations.

Shane Gero of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and his colleagues tracked sperm whale populations in the Caribbean and Sargasso seas to see what happened when mothers dived for food.

Not exact matches

Killing whales for commercial purposes had driven Australian whale populations, especially those of sperm and humpback whales, frighteningly close to the edge of extinction.

«In sperm whales, and likely other whales and dolphins, culture has the potential to affect population biology, and so issues as diverse as genetic evolution and the impacts of global warming on the species.»

The old estimates were based on 20th - century data from the whaling industry itself, which estimated a worldwide sperm - whale population of about 1.8 million, a number that few scientists found credible.

The results may extend to other animals as well, the researchers speculate, and may even explain why some populations of sperm whales have relatively few young.

That's the conclusion of a new study, which finds that rebounding populations of baleen and sperm whales may be boosting marine food webs around the world.

And now giant squid populations are exploding in various regions — maybe a good thing for sperm whales, but ask Captain Nemo what he thinks about that!

Compared with other bodies of water its size, the Sea of Cortez supports the largest and most varied population of whales in the world: humpback, Bryde's, minke, orca, and sperm whales also live there.

Diving highlights are undoubtedly the opportunity to see the resident population of humpback whales but also includes encounters with manta rays and sperm whales.