... the patterns of individual whale movements, as well as estimate the sizes of different populations.
In addition to whale fluke photographs, SPLASH researchers collected more than 6,000 biopsy samples ...
WASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says most North Pacific humpback whale populations are rebounding.
The argument that increasing whale populations are behind declining fish stocks is completely without scientific foundation, leading researchers and conservation organizations said as the ...
... his co-authors bring together all of the major whale and dolphin strandings in the past eight years ... still perform its exercises and affect less of the whale population," he says. However, he argues ...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The Cook Inlet beluga whale population near Anchorage, Alaska, was placed on the U.S. endangered list, federal marine officials said Friday.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canada's killer whale population on the Pacific Coast remains at risk of extinction as its main food source continues to decline, a government panel said on ...
... population off the islands. The population's limited number make it more vulnerable than other whale populations to potentially harmful human behavior, including fishing and Navy sonar, said the paper ...
... s head.
Thode said the study could be a first step in the broader use of acoustics to census whale populations as supplements to visual counts of the animals. Currently it is difficult to relate the ...
'The Western Grey Whale population is at great risk of extinction. It is imperative that all oil companies operating in its feeding area acknowledge the effects of their operations on the whales, ...
A recent study has linked illegal Soviet whaling with a whale population crash off the Australian coast in the 1960s.
... where humpbacks congregate today. "Townsend was attempting to identify distribution and possible boundaries between whale populations or 'breeding stocks,'" noted Rosenbaum. "We're still trying to ...
From November to April, part of the Northern Pacific humpback whale population migrates to the Mexico Pacific to mate or give birth. The species's future is brighter but still threatened.
... on California's Sacramento River also could help revive killer whale populations 700 miles to the north in Puget Sound, as federal scientists struggle to protect endangered species in a ...