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Interview with Dr. Meagan Jones from the Whale Trust Maui
Whale News Events Currently on our Sonar 8
Whale News Events Currently on our Sonar at Whales Without Borders.
SeaWorld Scientist:??Whale??Captivity Is No Longer Educational
The clip is from the 2011 documentary “A Fall From Freedom” about the captive??whale and dolphin industry that was just unearthed by The Earth Island Institute’s Dolphin Project.
Bolivia: Mysterious??Whales??Unearthed 3800 Meters Above Sea Level
LaPaz | Dozens of whale carcasses have been unearthed under Pre-Columbian earth mounds near the city of LaPaz at an altitude of more than 3,800 meters above sea level, a baffling discovery admit archaeologists from LaPaz University.
Whales??Invade New York!
An unusually large number of humpback??whales??have been spotted in the waters around New York City. For the past few years, more and more humpback whales have been spotted near the city???s shores.
Massive Donation to Help Sea Shepherd Create Perfect Anti-Whaling??Ship
With an unprecedented donation now secure, the conservation group Sea Shepherd looks to invest in a powerful piece of machinery to patrol the ocean. The maritime activist organization was been awarded $11.8 million at the Good Money Gala in Amsterdam via the Dutch Postcode Lottery??
South Carolina waters proposed as right??whale??calving critical habitat
The number of calves born to imperiled right whales appears to be dropping in recent years, just as conservation efforts appeared to be turning the corner for the species. Right whales are the rarest of the large whales, 40-ton creatures
NOAA tweaks Gear Marking Requirement
New rules for fishing gear intended to protect whales, set to go into effect June 1, include adding special marks to buoy lines on gear set outside a Maine exemption line. Any lobster gear set outside that line must have vertical lines marked at the top, middle and bottom with 12-inch red marks. HOWEVER, Most of Maine state waters are inside the exemption line designated in the rule
Whale News Events Currently on our Sonar 7
Whale News Events Currently on our Sonar at Whales Without Borders.
Fishermen catch rare Longman???s Beaked Whale off Thatta’s coast
KARACHI: The Longman’s Beaked Whale released back to the Arabian Sea. Fishermen ensnared a rare Longman???s Beaked Whale off Thatta???s coast, Pakistan. A rescue operation successfully untangled the whale after a 30 minute struggle.
Sperm whales target fishing boats for an easy meal
Sperm whales, the ocean’s largest predators, have been targeting the boats of black cod fishermen and swiping their catch off their lines.
Whale Tales 2015: February 13-16
Whale Tales is a unique opportunity to meet some of the world???s leading researchers and photographers and hear their latest findings.??????Hosted by Whale Trust Maui
Gray??whales??breeding off San Diego’s coastline
Gray whales are switching up their breeding habits off San Diego’s coastline. The animals typically pass during their migration pattern, but some incredible new video suggests something unusual is going on.
Baleen??Whales??Can Feel it in Their Bones
A first of its kind study sheds light on the elusive subject of whale noises. Researchers have discovered that the skulls of baleen whales have acoustic properties that allow them to detect low frequency waves. In other words, they hear with their bones.
Whale??Walk makes mark at Doheny
DANA POINT ??? Artists zip from whale to whale on a skateboard, cans of spray paint in hand, making sure massive mammals come to life on the boardwalk.
Whales Without Borders radio interview on The Big Alaska Show.
Listen to my recent Whales Without Borders radio interview on The Big Alaska Show. We chat about many things including recent whale news and events and technology advances.
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Baleen??Whales??Can Feel it in Their Bones
Skulls of baleen whales the suborder of whales that comprise all toothless variations have acoustic properties that allow them to detect low frequency waves.
Can Baleen??Whales??Can Feel it in Their Bones?
A first of its kind study sheds light on the elusive subject of whale noises. Researchers have discovered that the skulls of baleen whales the suborder of whales that comprise all toothless variations, including blue whales, gray whales, and humpback whales have acoustic properties that allow them to detect low frequency waves. In other words, they hear with their bones.
When baleen whales, which are the largest animals on Earth, intercept the deep murmuring noises that they send across the ocean, their skulls begins to slightly vibrate. This nearly undetectable quivering is directed to their ear bones and is interpreted as sound.
This discovery, made by biologist Ted W. Cranford of San Diego State University and engineer Petr Krysl of the University of California San Diego, is unprecedented. Whale noise is a notoriously elusive subject for scientists. (No one yet knows what whales are communicating if at all with their deep, low frequency calls.)
???This makes you wonder how much we???re interfering with whale communication sounds or whatever they???re using the sounds for,??? Cranford says. ???Do we have some sort of effect? Can they not find a mate? Can they not find a food source?”
Cranford cautions, however, against making any sweeping claim about our harmful effect on these creatures. Their research sheds some light on a previously shadowed issue, but the next step will be trying to discover just how sensitive they are to these noises.
For More Information:
https://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/whales-can-hear-through-their-bones
Baleen??Whales??Can Feel it in Their Bones
A first of its kind study sheds light on the elusive subject of whale noises. Researchers have discovered that the skulls of baleen whales have acoustic properties that allow them to detect low frequency waves. In other words, they hear with their bones.
Whale Tales 2015: February 13-16
Whale Tales 2015 this February 13th-16th!
Hosted by Whale Trust Maui.
Whale Tales offers attendees the opportunity to learn about the groundbreaking work being carried out by some of the world???s leading authorities in whale research and conservation through a weekend of free presentations at Lahaina???s Maui Theatre. You can hear directly from researchers about their most recent discoveries; view award-winning underwater photography and video of whales in their natural environment; take a benefit whale watching cruise hosted by presenters and more! Limited tickets are still available for the Opening Reception, being held at the historic Pioneer Inn from 4:30-6:30pm on Friday, February 13th, followed by a free presentation under the stars in Cambell Park with Flip Nicklin and Jason Sturgis at 7pm.Get the Details here: https://www.whaletrust.org/
Whales in Your Backyard
Whales in Your Backyard
How do technologies like the SnotBot, WhaleSpotter and listening buoys help us protect whales? Find out from marine scientist Lindsay Hirt in her upcoming live-streamed presentation on January 12th: Whales in Your Backyard: How Learning the Secrets of the Great Whales Helps Us to Protect Them (and Our Oceans).
Tune in at 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. EST on your own computer to hear Hirt explain why the whales in Massachusetts Bay are endangered, how these groundbreaking technologies shed light on the secret lives of whales, and where that information can be applied in developing tools to conserve these giants of the sea.
Hirt appeals to audiences of all ages and expertise with her clear, non-technical language and stories from her own and her colleagues??? research adventures. Her passion for our huge and majestic oceanic neighbors is contagious, and she will inspire you to do all you can to protect whales, too.
The presentation will be live-streamed from the studios of Plymouth Area Community Television, and is the first in our 2015 speaker series: Making Waves in Coastal Conservation. While you watch, join the chat on Twitter by following GoldenrodFn and using #makingwaves. To sign up to watch the presentation, click here.
To see the broadcast start time (7:00 p.m. EST) in your time zone, click here.
For more information about the Goldenrod Foundation, please visit our website: www.goldenrod.org.
Recordings of Humpback Whale Songs That Made Waves
Recordings of Humpback Whale Songs That Made Waves: The Songs That Saved The Whales.
Great Recording of Humpback Whale Songs that are worth listening to…
By the 1960s, humpback whales and other whale species had been hunted extensively, sometimes to the point of near extinction. Then a recording of humpback whale songs that made waves helped shift public opinion on the hunting of all whale species.
In the mid-20th century, whale populations were dwindling. More than 50,000 whales were killed each year by commercial whalers.
But then in the 1960s, a song ??? or rather, many songs ??? sparked a movement.
It started with some underwater equipment that, for the first time, captured the sound of humpback whales.
Composer-Poets
At his home in Vermont, biologist Roger Payne plays the audio that was discovered back then. He points out themes in the whales’ song, and how they evolve over time.
This was a startling discovery. If an animal repeats a sound, like a bird or a cricket, then it’s technically a song. This, however, was arguably the most complex song of any animal.
On her 1970 album Whales and Nightingales, Collins included the song “Farewell to Tarwathie” ??? an adaptation of a traditional whaling song, featuring actual whales in the background.
Siberia’s answer to Stonehenge or the Pyramids
Welcome to Siberia’s answer to Stonehenge or the Pyramids
It???s here, at Siklyuk on the tiny Bearing Sea island of Yttygran, where Eskimos created a 14th century shine and sacred meeting place, made with giant bones. Welcome to 600-year-old Whale Bone Alley, a location once so remote that few outside this part of the world knew about its secrets.
When photographer Evgeniy Basov captured the beauty of giant bones towering high into the Siberia sky, he said they resembled the majesty of England???s Stonehenge. Learning more about their unusual layout, and the significance of their creation, he insisted they were even as important to the Russian Far East as the Pyramids. It???s little wonder.
To many the location appears nothing more than some eerie graveyard of the damned, a last resting place for the whale carcases of yesteryear ??? but that is where they would be wrong.
And just like these, more well-known, monuments Whale Bone Alley raises more questions than answers. Anyone who is not familiar with the history of the Eskimos will never believe it that Whale BoneAlley is made from whale jaws vertically pitched into the ground’.
Scars help reveal whale migration routes
Scars help reveal whale migration routes
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Cape Town – Scars left by killer whales and cookiecutter sharks are helping scientists unravel the mystery of humpback whale migration routes.
A humpback whale, photographed off the west coast, has scars on its tail from a close encounter with a killer whale. Scars of predators are helping researchers work out the migratory routes humpbacks have followed between the polar regions and their warmer breeding grounds. Picture: NAMIBIAN DOLPHIN PROJECT
Researchers know humpbacks migrate between their polar feeding grounds and warmer waters where they breed, but the exact routes they take are not known.
Now, in a paper published in the Journal of Mammalogy, researchers from the University of Pretoria???s Mammal Research Institute say seeing the kind of scars on humpback whales, and how recently they were made, has enabled them to get a pretty good idea of the routes the whales took before arriving in their breeding grounds off the west coast of South Africa, Namibia and Gabon.
The reason is that cookiecutter sharks prefer warmer water.
Researcher Tess Gridley said by looking at the patterns of scarring on the humpbacks from cookiecutter sharks and killer whales, and comparing these with the distribution of these two predators, they got a better understanding of the waters the humpbacks had travelled through before reaching our coast.
In contrast, killer whales, which regularly attack and kill humpback whales, especially calves, are found all over the ocean. ???So if whales have lots of cookiecutter shark bites, there???s a good chance they have recently passed through warm water in offshore areas, and only recently reached the coast.???
Whales Flying Across the Ocean and It Looks Like a Movie Scene
A Drone Caught These Whales Flying Across the Ocean and It Looks Like a Movie Scene
From the footage the scientists were able to differentiate the whales that were sickly and the whales that were pregnant. They have already discovered several pregnancies that were previously undetectable.
Cool thing about the drone is that from 10 meters above water level its noise is undetectable, which means that it???s able to catch footage of the whales??? natural behavior. In some cases it almost looks like a scene out of ???Fantasia 2000.???
Whales Flying Across the Ocean and It Looks Like a Movie Scene is very creative set of videos.
Watch them here…