Sentences with phrase «with other whaling»

Whales produce sounds called upcalls, sometimes called contact calls, when they are alone or in the process of joining with other whales.

Humpback whales use their bodies to communicate with other whales and ocean creatures.

Not exact matches

A study on humpback whales by ecologists from Denmark and Australia has revealed that baby whales communicate with their mothers in whispers to avoid the risk of attention from predators and other mating whales.

I can ramble off a few relatively intelligent animals: talking parrots and whales, along with video game playing chimps and apes, sign language talking apes, and animal kingdom is filled with paired species that can notice a mate, find food, build shelter, and other things.

For example, we should stop «hunting for sport or furs; farming minks, foxes and other animals for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 23).

The other day I had lunch with friends at a Seattle restaurant called Whale Wins.

Plus, as may happen with other sound machines or apps on your phone, you won't be driven to the brink of insanity by the Dohm, by waiting for the loop to «click over» into the next cycle, or by waiting for that sixth whale tone or bird call, or be totally creeped out at 2 a.m. by the sound of a beating heart (oh yes, that's a sound machine option, too).

The whimsical children's store Land of Nod makes this activity floor mat with whales, snails, jellyfish, and other undersea creatures.

Part of you wants a water birth with whale music, while the other voice in your head is screaming «epidural».

(Airs 1/7/16) WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Scott McVay, Author of Surprise Encounters With Artists and Scientists, Whales and Other Living Thiwith Scott McVay, Author of Surprise Encounters With Artists and Scientists, Whales and Other Living ThiWith Artists and Scientists, Whales and Other Living Things.

The bumps coincide with other suggestions of declining health in the whales.

You have said that recent decades have seen a revolution in our relationship with animals as humans overcome cross-species barriers, achieving intimacy with humpback whales, chimpanzees, lions, mountain sheep, wolves, and many others.

Killer whales have group - specific dialects, sperm whales babysit one another's young and bottlenose dolphins cooperate with other species.

The whales were practically on top of each other, lunging about 53 times an hour and with barely half a minute's rest.

With climate change transforming the Arctic, biologists are scrambling to understand the impact on gray whales and other creatures living in the region

The bottom line, as was true with whales and still is with bluefin tuna and other threatened fishes, is that ensuring shark species» survival also ensures the survival of multiple fisheries.

It means that false killer whales and bottlenose dolphins choose to spend time with specific members of the other species rather than randomly mixing or engaging in brief opportunistic encounters.

«It turns out that fin whales are abundant offshore Western Svalbard and communicate with each other within the range of our investigation.

He adds, «With all the other cases, there is some uncertainty as to whether the population declines were really caused by killer whales.»

Wild beluga whales were found to have hearing comparable with whales in captivity, which sets up a baseline test for hearing damage in other whales in noisy waters.

Biologist Eva Egelyng Sigsgaard at the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen and her team collected seawater containing skin cells — along with cells from urine and feces — naturally shed by the whale sharks and other animals.

The occasional genetic interchange between populations also seemed to correlate with feeding grounds with high densities of krill, places where whales from different populations are likely to move vast distances and come into contact with other populations.

The earlier study also compared shark population numbers with other apex predators, such as polar bears and killer whales.

For many years, it was assumed that these clever, highly mobile whales bred with each other freely in the seemingly homogeneous ocean.

Since then we have discovered a multitude of intermediate links: fish that could crawl, lizards with mammal - like jaws, whales with legs, giraffes with short necks and many others.

A new paper from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), in partnership with researchers and practitioners from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, Space Quest, Google, and SkyTruth, reviews the use of a maritime vessel communication and navigational safety system that is not only effective in protecting people, but wildlife such as whales, walruses, and other wildlife species as well.

Seeking to establish links between populations of blue whales in the Gulf of Corcovado and other regions, the researchers examined DNA collected from the skin of blue whales with biopsy darts fired from crossbows across the eastern South Pacific.

Without ship strikes as a big factor holding the population back — and no other readily apparent human - caused reason (although noise, chemical pollution and interactions with fisheries may impact them)-- it is even more likely that the population is growing more slowly because whale numbers are reaching the habitat limit, something called the carrying capacity.

The earliest whales were predators with sharp teeth — a legacy carried on by today's orcas, dolphins and other toothed whales.

Such sonar exercises have been associated with several unusual strandings of other marine mammal species (typically beaked whales) in the past.

Other animals — sharks, elephant seals, whales, leatherback turtles — are equipped with tags that phone home each time the creatures surface.

Researchers think the whales use the calls to announce themselves and to «touch base» with others of their kind, they explained in a poster presented today at the Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The tagged minkes also gulped down a remarkable number of mouthfuls of krill per dive compared with other baleen whales, which all catch prey using a behavior known as lunge feeding.

More recent genetic analysis — not yet universally accepted — places bats in the superorder Laurasiatheria, with a diverse bunch of other placental mammals including whales, dogs and giraffes.

In 2010, Marino banded together with other scientists, activists, and philosophers to draft a «Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans» declaring that no whales and dolphins «should be held in captivity... or removed from their natural environment.»

(Male Cuvier's beaked whales have tusks, and the scars on the back of the male in the photo are from fighting with other males.)

After researchers take samples to determine the whale's age, stomach contents, the amount of heavy metals accumulated in tissue, and other data, the meat is sold with proceeds subsidizing the whaling expeditions.

And it had a large set of teeth with no evidence of the comb - like fringes used by other baleen whales to filter their food from seawater.

Furthermore, several molecular studies have concluded that whales share a common artiodactyl ancestor with hippos and are thus more closely related to these animals than to any other living artiodactyl or to a mesonychian.

In killer whale families, sons and daughters stay with their mothers while mating with whales in other families.

But a few mammals such as bats, whales and elephants use complex and varied vocalizations that share some characteristics with human speech such as the ability to learn vocalizations from other members of their social group.

Blue whales lunge through large swarms of krill with their mouths open, taking in more food in one mouthful than any other animal on Earth.

It also opens up potential avenues in embryology that would have been inconceivable otherwise — for example, using stem cells to accurately study the embryology of whales and other species with much longer (or shorter) gestation rates than humans.

We need relatively calm seas (e.g, < 10 - 15 kt winds and < 3 - 4 ft seas) and if you check out the offshore actual weather and forecasts for the outer waters where we hope to work with beaked whales and other pelagic -LSB-...]

The same phenomenon may occur in other deep - diving whales when they are disturbed by human - generated noise in the oceans, which has been associated with strandings of deep - diving cetaceans such as beaked whales, she said.

These efforts continued in the Bahamas in 2008 with BRS - 08, and the combined results suggested that beaked whales there seemed to exhibit avoidance behavior of various sounds at levels well below those in other species.

They're plentiful in the ocean, with an estimated biomass of 379 - million tons (a biomass significantly larger than humans» estimated 100 - million tons), and they're a popular meal item for sea animals like whales, birds and other fish, placing them solidly at the bottom of the ocean's food chain.

The whale motif on these towels is a playful take on it that's easy to mix with other patterns.

The whale motif on these towels is a playful take on it thatâ $ ™ s easy to mix with other patterns.

Like Frances Ha, The Squid And The Whale, and many of Baumbauch's other works, the film takes a sharp look at adulthood and the challenges that come with maturity.