Nineteen pilot whales washed up on a Cape Town beach in South Africa Sunday and seven of them died, sea rescue officials said, prompting a frenzy to save the remaining giant mammals.
Mar 24, 2013
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Pilot whales that have died in mass strandings in New Zealand and Australia included many unrelated individuals at each event, a new study concludes, challenging a popular assumption that whales follow each ...
Mar 14, 2013
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An international team of scientists have observed the behaviour of various groups of cetaceans in the Strait of Gibraltar and Cape Breton in Canada belonging to the Globicephala melas species, which are also ...
Nov 23, 2012
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A pod of 28 pilot whales that were left stranded on a New Zealand beach on Thursday are likely be put down as there is little chance of refloating them, wildlife officials said.
Nov 15, 2012
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Locals on a remote island in eastern Indonesia on Tuesday cut up several dead pilot whales for food after a mass stranding that killed at least 41 of the mammals, an official said.
Oct 02, 2012
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US scientists are to investigate what led 22 whales to beach themselves in Florida—killing 17 of them—one of three such incidents in North America over the weekend.
Sep 02, 2012
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Scientists studying the calls made by killer whales and pilot whales have a big problem: these whales talk too much.
Apr 23, 2012
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University of Massachusetts Amherst fish biologists have published one of the first studies of deep-sea fish sounds in more than 50 years, collected from the sea floor about 2,237 feet (682 meters) below the ...
Jan 26, 2012
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A pod of about 40 beached pilot whales re-stranded themselves in New Zealand Tuesday after volunteers worked for hours to get them back into the sea, officials said.
Jan 24, 2012
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A pod of 90 pilot whales have beached themselves at the top of New Zealand's South island, in the same area where seven whales died in a mass stranding earlier this month, according to officials.
Jan 23, 2012
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With the constant churn of freighter propellers, the percussive thump of oil and gas exploration and the underwater din of military testing, ocean noise levels have become unbearable for some sea mammals.
Dec 07, 2011
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More than 60 pilot whales died in a mass stranding at a remote New Zealand beach, conservation officials said Wednesday.
Nov 16, 2011
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Fifteen pilot whales have died in a mass stranding near the northwestern tip of Scotland, according to a rescue charity.
Jul 23, 2011
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(AP) -- Two pilot whales found stranded in the Florida Keys have been released.
May 08, 2011
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