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Sounds originating from human activity have made the oceans much noisier.
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,Ocean Conservancy, Oceana, The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund to Receive Funding Over Five-Year Period to Enhance Marine Conservation, Research and Education Related Efforts
On Tuesday 22. August 2017, The Pacific Life Foundation announced a $2 million grant to four national marine mammal and ocean-focused nonprofit agencies.
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Villages from the Prek Kreing village in Sambo district spotted the first calf on August 11th. It was believed to be two to three weeks old. The sighting was promptly reported to officials at WWF.
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From 2007 to 2014, 35 pregnancies were detected among the endangered southern resident killer whales in the inshore waters of Washington State and British Columbia. Eleven of these were successful and resulted in the birth of a calf.
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More than 535 minutes of footage depicting rarely-seen activities of wild dolphins were captured off New Zealand, in a world-first study involving researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Alaska Southeast.
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To find out if such behaviour resulted in any social ramifications, researchers from Savannah State University in the US observed the bottlenose dolphins in the estuarine waterways for three consecutive summers, using photo-identification surveys
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Despite substantial efforts by the Mexican government to protect vaquitas, the latest results from advanced acoustic monitoring technology that showed the population continuing to rapidly decline.
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It has been known for decades that dolphins and whales have an advanced mode of communication—distinctive whistles and clicks that express excitement, happiness, anxiety or separation from a group.
Hope remains for the Irrawaddy dolphin with the discovery of 10 new calves in Cambodia’s section of the Mekong River.
Read moreFalse killer whales consume popular game fish like yellowfin tuna and mahi-mahi. They forage in the same open-ocean regions where commercial fishermen set fishing lines (as long as 30 to 60 kilometres) to catch the same fish.
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Using DNA from skin samples collected from the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) and Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus), alongside data from previous genetic studies, scientists from American Museum of
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Publishing their findings in Conservation Biology, Armando Jaramillo-Legorreta of Mexico’s Department of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) said, “We are witnessing the end of a species, if the illegal fishing continues.”
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This discovery was made when scientists from Florida International University (FIU), University of Liège in Belgium, the University of Gronigen in the Netherlands and the Tropical Dolphin Research Foundation in the United States examined dolphins
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In addition, the researchers at Aarhus University have also discovered that these mammals – sometimes known as the Danish whale – can control their heart rate to match the length and depth of an intended dive.
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With just three individuals, there are too few potential breeding pairs to ensure the survival of the species.
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Two groups of outpatients, one which swam one hour daily with dolphins and the control group which did not, were studied by scientists of the Department of Health Sciences, Division of Clinical Psychiatry, University of Leicester Medical School, L
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