Sentences with phrase «whales hunt marine»

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Dr Longrich explained: «This find was unusual because it's a dinosaur from marine rocks — it's a bit like hunting for fossil whales, and finding a fossil lion.

To study the effects of intense hunting of sperm whales in the Pacific Ocean, Whitehead and his wife, marine biologist Linda Weilgart, collected data on the whales» vocalizations and tail scars, which may indicate how well an animal fends off predators.

«The hunting of large whales is managed by the International Whaling Commission,» added Baker, who works out of OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore. «But there is no international or inter-governmental organization to set quotas or provide management advice for hunting small cetaceans.

If you're an oceanographer who studies marine mammals, perhaps you'd go to sea on a ship with a good pair of binoculars and hunt for whales.

April is the best time to experience orcas on the hunt, as they attack gray whales, sea lions and other marine mammals in the bay.

You'll also be able to hunt all kinds of marine wildlife like gigantic whales and sharks.

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.

They are biological hotspots, since they serve as breathing holes or refuges for marine mammals such as whales and seals, and fish - hunting birds.

Huntington's research activities include reviewing the regulation of subsistence hunting in northern Alaska, documenting traditional ecological knowledge of beluga whales and bowhead whales, examining Iñupiat Eskimo and Inuit knowledge and use of sea ice, and assessing the impacts of climate change on Arctic communities and Arctic marine mammals.

Whales are already facing significant threats from climate change, marine pollution, ship strikes, etc., and it is irresponsible for industrialized nations such as Iceland to put even greater pressure on these animals by hunting them to supply a luxury food market.

It is widely known that Killer whales have a wide food spectrum; they hunt seals, sea lions and other marine mammals.

Moose have very few predators on land and only one marine predator, the killer whale; killer whales have been observed hunting moose migrating between islands in the Pacific Northwest.