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New York’s whales to be studied for the first time

July 5, 2016July 5, 2016 Supertrooper Leave a comment

The habits of New York’s little-understood whale population are to be fully analysed for the first time, with scientists hoping the new information will help protect the marine behemoths that navigate one of the busiest shipping areas in the world. An acoustic monitoring buoy has been deployed off the coast of Long Island to eavesdrop […]

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Video: Mysterious New Humpback Whale “Song” Detected?

December 17, 2015December 28, 2015 Supertrooper 1 Comment

The latest release in the humpback whale’s haunting sound collection is a track so unusual that scientists hardly know what to make of it. Unlike anything on the hit album Songs of the Humpback Whale (released in 1970, the wildlife recording went multi-platinum), the mysterious new noise has such a low beat it’s scarcely audible. […]

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Removing Walls of Death: Saving Sea Turtles from Drift Nets

March 20, 2013November 28, 2014 Supertrooper 4 Comments

An endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle swims through the cold, nutrient-rich waters off California where it has made an impressive journey from its nesting beaches in Indonesia to feed on jellyfish. But, it encounters an unwelcome surprise, a mile long drift net in which its flipper becomes entangled. Because this net sits overnight in the […]

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Humpback whales creating stir off Ireland

December 4, 2012November 28, 2014 Supertrooper Leave a comment

The mammals have been creating a stir off Baltimore in west Cork in the Irish Republic for the last two weeks as they feed on shoals of sprat and herring. There are five animals in the humpback group and they have been getting a lot of attention, with reports in Ireland’s national newspapers and segments […]

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