MercoPress6 年
BAS team doing first scientific Southern right whale survey in South Georgia
Southern right whale populations were decimated after nearly 300 years of hunting in the South Atlantic. An international team of researchers, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), travels to the ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation1 个月
Southern right whale numbers increase in Great Australian Bight Marine Park but new threats ...
Southern right whale numbers have recovered under the protection of the Great Australian Bight Marine Park, but the whales are now expanding into other coastal bays. While whale migration numbers ...
National Geographic news3 年
Right Whales
Right whales feed on zooplankton and other tiny organisms using baleens up to 8 feet long. Southern and the two species of northern right whales live in temperate Atlantic or Pacific waters ...
newsbytesapp.com14 小时
Whale watching in Hermanus Coast
The best time to see whales in Hermanus is during the peak whale season, which runs from July to November. This is when your ...
Business Insider8 年
Drone footage of Southern right whales
An curved arrow pointing right. This drone captured endangered Southern right whales migrating to Argentina from Antarctica. A small stretch of coastline near Puerto Madryn is very popular with ...
Southern right whale numbers increase in Great Australian Bight Marine Park but new threats ...
Armed with binoculars and notebooks, a group of researchers scramble along the remote cliff edges counting and photographing ...
Are marine protected areas safeguarding the Tohorā—the southern right whale?
"Our research focused on how well MPAs in NZ waters encompass important southern right whale habitat and how well they ...
BBC2 年
Southern right whales: Tracking unexpected Southern Ocean migrations
New Zealand's southern right whales were almost hunted to extinction a century ago. Their recovery now depends on the health of the oceans - but where exactly do they feed? The answer has ...
MercoPress13 天
The elusive pygmy right whale in the Southern Hemisphere, “a living fossil”
The relatively diminutive pygmy right whale, which grows to just 6.5 meters long, lives out in the open ocean. The elusive marine mammals inhabit the Southern Hemisphere and have only been spotted ...
Natural History Museum%2c London1 年
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: The southern right whales' song of hope
In the subantarctic Auckland Islands, Wildlife Photographer of the Year winner Richard Robinson captures a bright new future for the whales almost hunted to extinction. Richard Robinson was being ...
BBC2 年
Southern right whales: Tracking unexpected Southern Ocean migrations
New Zealand's southern right whales were almost hunted to extinction a century ago. Their recovery now depends on the health of the oceans - but where exactly do they feed? The answer has ...
Business Insider8 年
Rare white whale calf spotted off the coast of Australia
Researchers from Murdoch University’s Cetacean Research Unit (MUCRU) captured aerial footage of a rare white southern right whale calf off the coast of western Australia. The calf was an ...