Scott | January 18, 2009
Tweet I’m not sure the latest wayward marine mammal has made the national headlines, but in and around the greater San Francisco Bay Area a bottlenose dolphin 90 miles from sea has caught the attention of Californians. Similar incidents happen every so often and within the last year and a half have included a couple [...]
Category: Endangered species, Marine life, Whales |
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Tags: dolphins, marine mammals, Navy, noise, noise pollution, Oceans, sea lions, shipping, sonar, strandings, Whales
Scott | October 5, 2008
TweetSeverely depleted during the intense whaling periods of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the right whale, so duly named by whalers as a profitable species for their thick layer of blubber, oil yield, baleen, slow speed, surface dwelling behavior, and post-mortem floatability, is still, in the 21st century, hovering on the brink of extinction. [...]
Category: Whales |
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Tags: conservation, Endangered species, NOAA, Oceans, right whales, ship strike, Whales