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Plants & Animals Mar 5, 2024

First baby right whale of season dies from injuries caused by ship collision

The first confirmed baby right whale of the year has been found dead from a collision with a ship, a devastating blow for the vanishing species.

Plants & Animals Jan 18, 2024

Feds want boats to slow down to protect whales

The Savannah River meets the Atlantic Ocean at Fort Pulaski National Monument, the brick citadel built to guard this port city in the years before the Civil War.

Plants & Animals Dec 28, 2023

Newborn southern resident orca spotted in Puget Sound

The J pod of endangered southern resident orcas has a new baby.

Agriculture Dec 19, 2023

Two recent studies expand understanding of how early social housing helps dairy calves thrive

Dairy industry professionals continuously work to ensure the highest possible welfare for dairy calves, including fine-tuning their housing to improve overall health, well-being, and performance. Two new studies in JDS Communications ...

Veterinary medicine Nov 7, 2023

Study finds that colostrum is key to saving beef calves from trouble

In a pair of recent studies, researchers examined risk factors that contribute to insufficient antibody transfer to newborn beef calves, as well as the subsequent negative health effects. They found that the mother's parity ...

Plants & Animals Jun 29, 2023

Drone photographs reveal dolphin ages and pod health

Using unoccupied aerial system (UAS), or drone, photographs, researchers from the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) are now able to determine the age-structure of ...

Plants & Animals May 11, 2023

Whales in the Southern Ocean are becoming increasingly thinner due to global warming, suggests study

In the month of June, when winter bites in the southern hemisphere and the sea around the Antarctic freezes over, right whales swim north. Many of them gather in the bay outside the town of Hermanus in South Africa.

Plants & Animals May 8, 2023

Tail first and making an early splash, some whales just can't wait to be born

Did you know whales are born tail first? They enter their water world being able to swim from day dot. From the moment they're born, their first instinct is to swim to the surface for air.

Ecology Oct 7, 2022

Gray whale numbers continue decline; NOAA fisheries will continue monitoring

Gray whales that migrate along the West Coast of North America continued to decline in number over the last 2 years, according to a new NOAA Fisheries assessment. The population is now down 38 percent from its peak in 2015 ...

Veterinary medicine Aug 16, 2022

Transition milk improves health in neonatal calves

Feeding calves transition milk instead of milk replacer in the first days of life stimulates intestinal development and improves health scores. In a new report in the Journal of Dairy Science, five researchers from Michigan ...

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