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Hundreds of gray whales in the eastern Pacific Ocean have died since last year, and scientists are beginning to understand why. >> read more …
Differing interpretations on the status of some coastal gray whales in Canada and the United States could make it difficult to strike a balance between conservation and Indigenous rights. >> read more …
Three years of “health check-ups” on Oregon’s summer resident gray whales shows a compelling relationship between whales’ overall body condition and changing ocean conditions that likely limited availability of prey for the mammals, a new study from Oregon State University indicates. >> read more …
The mighty grays undertake one of the longest migrations of any mammal, traveling from Arctic feeding grounds to calving areas in Mexico, then back north again come spring. A small group of about a dozen whales pause along the way, sticking around in northern Puget Sound typically from March through May, though some arrive earlier, … Meer lezen
We use 31 years of gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) stranding data to build on earlier work that found a positive relationship between strandings and sunspot counts. The increase in strandings under high solar activity is best explained by an effect on the sensor, not on the magnetic field itself. >> read more …
he Central California survey counts migrating whales for a new population assessment. >> read more …
Beautiful drone video filmed near Dana Point, California, the Dolphin and Whale Watching Capital of the World®, during one of our daily whale watching cruises, of a mother and calf gray whale making their way south to Baja California, Mexico.
AUSTIN, Texas — Migrating animals that live in Earth’s oceans may have a closer relationship with the sun than we thought. New research shows that healthy gray whales are nearly five times more likely to strand when there is a high prevalence of sunspots, and therefore high levels of radio waves emitted from solar storms. … Meer lezen
Something killed 121 gray whales this spring and summer, and scientists are struggling to find out what it was. >> read more …
Rond 1960 vond er bij Wijster een opgraving plaats naar een nederzetting uit de 2de – 4de eeuw na Christus. Één van de vondsten was een gehoorkapsel of bulla tymapnica van een walvis. >> lees verder …
Pacific gray whales are showing up dead in North America’s oceans and shores at a rate four-times greater than typical. As of July 11, 182 gray whales have been found dead or beached this year in Mexico, the US, and Canada according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). >> read more …
For about a month from mid-June to mid-July, at least one gray whale explored Birch Bay, feeding in the muddy, shallow waters. While the visit was exciting for those who spotted the whale breaching in the bay, it may be an ominous sign for the eastern North Pacific gray whale population. >> read more …
Pacific gray whales are showing up dead in North America’s oceans and shores at a rate four-times greater than typical. As of July 11, 182 gray whales have been found dead or beached this year in Mexico, the US, and Canada according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). >> read more …
IUCN’s Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel is concerned that waters immediately outside the mouth of Piltun Lagoon in the Russian Far East may be losing their ability to support the recovery of Endangered western gray whales. >> read more …
Since January 1, 2019, elevated gray whale strandings have occurred along the west coast of North America from Mexico through Alaska. This event has been declared an Unusual Mortality Event (UME). >> read more …
A dead whale washed ashore in Point Reyes on Thursday, bringing the total this year to 13 in the San Francisco Bay Area and the 14th including Mendocino County, according to marine biologists. >> read more …
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) – The eighth dead gray whale has been reported near Wrangell in Southeast Alaska, keeping biologists busy–and worried. Barbara Mahoney, a Marine Mammal Stranding Coordinator for the National Fisheries Services said the scale of this year’s die off is bigger than past ones she’s seen. >> read more …
Officials say a gray whale that washed ashore in Everett died of starvation. The Daily Herald reported Tuesday that a necropsy determined the female whale that washed up at Harborview Park in early May was skinny and undernourished. >> read more …