These are not good times for the North Atlantic right whale. Ship strikes and gear entanglement play major roles in the mortality of these highly endangered mammals, which now number fewer than 500. Making matters worse, ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2018
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Not since the days of whaling had so many North Atlantic right whales died in one year.
Plants & Animals
May 22, 2018
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Regina Asmutis-Silvia, a biologist who has dedicated her career to saving right whales, is cleaning out a file cabinet from the early 1990s, and the documents inside tell a familiar story—the whales are dying from collisions ...
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Apr 3, 2018
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Japanese whaling vessels returned to port on Saturday after catching more than 300 of the mammals in the Antarctic Ocean without facing any protests by anti-whaling groups, officials said.
Ecology
Mar 31, 2018
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Researchers have found that right whale calls, much like human voices, change as individuals age.
Plants & Animals
Mar 12, 2018
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Former Syracuse postdoctoral researcher Holly Root-Gutteridge has always been a good listener - a trait that has served her very well in her bioacoustic research of mammals, both aquatic and landlocked. Most recently her ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 27, 2018
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Snow crab fishing in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence will be curtailed to protect endangered right whales from tangling in fishing gear, a Canadian official said Tuesday.
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2018
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Scientists watching for baby right whales off the Southeast U.S. coast have yet to spot a single newborn seven weeks into the endangered species' calving season—the longest researchers have gone without any sightings in ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 18, 2018
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In a new study published this week in Endangered Species Research, North Atlantic right whale scientists found that whales who undergo prolonged entanglements in fishing gear endure "sky-high hormone levels," indicating severe ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2017
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Researchers with the federal government and the New England Aquarium have developed a new model they said will provide better estimates about the North Atlantic right whale population, and the news isn't good.
Plants & Animals
Sep 25, 2017
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