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Far East Russia Orca Project (FEROPS) scientists have just published a paper in the journal Aquatic Mammals in which they document the existence of 5 to 8 white orcas in Russian waters.
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Hong Kong's iconic Chinese white dolphins are diminishing with new evidence indicating a 60 percent plunge in one year primarily due to construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.
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The Mexican government has now permanently banned gillnets and night fishing in the upper Gulf of California, which is the only place in the world where the critically endangered porpoise is found.
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A study by researchers from University of Milano-Bicocca describes observations of adults carrying dead calves and juveniles in 7 toothed cetaceans (odontocetes). The observation was based on 14 events from 3 oceans.
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The planned sanctuary will primarily serve orcas, belugas and dolphins endemic to colder waters who are retired from entertainment facilities, and injured or ill animals rescued from the ocean.
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An international scientific expedition in Mexico's Gulf of California has spotted up to 25 critically endangered vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise.
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They exhibited no signs of having been beached. Instead, they swam around and frolicked amongst themselves.
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A planned sea mammal park in the Caribbean’s Turks and Caicos Islands has been met with staunch opposition from environmentalists and locals alike.
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According to a new study, bottlenose dolphin colonized the Mediterranean after the last Ice Age, about 18,000 years ago.
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There was something peculiar about dolphins that puzzled the prolific British zoologist Sir James Gray in 1936.
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The all-volunteer MMC spearheaded several rescue efforts of dolphins and small whales that drew international news coverage over the past 20 years, most recently after a 2011 mass stranding of pilot whales in the Lower Keys.
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The Cetacean Free and Safe Passage resolution outlines the ills of captivity and states that these magnificent beings ought to be protected in their environment, and resolves:
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The process of describing a species new to science requires a systematic analysis of all species most closely related to the animal in question.
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Named after the Araguaia river where it was found, the species is only the fifth known of its kind in the world.
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The discovery is based on the study of seven animals stranded on remote tropical islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans over the past 50 years.
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To establish how well dolphins could remember their former companions, Dr.Jason Bruck working at the University of Chicago collected data from 53 different bottlenose dolphins at six facilities, including Brookfield Zoo near Chicago and Dolphin Qu
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