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As a marine biologist my specialization was shark research, but the most vicious attack I ever witnessed at sea was a pod of killer whales tormenting a helpless grey whale. The Scary -Looking ;Sea Monster ; That Washed Ashore in New …
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Disabled killer whale with missing fins looked after by family
AOL Travel UK
Underwater photographer Rainer Schimpf came face to face with the curious sea creature while its family hunted in choppy waters off Port Elizabeth in South Africa.
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KING5.com Greenpeace goes airborn over Seattle KING5.com The environmental group calls the bottom of the Bering the ‘Grand Canyons of the Sea’ and says unique creatures live there, including fish, crab, skates, endangered sea lions, orcas, and…
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New York Daily News Navy Dolphin Finds Rare 130-Year-Old Torpedo Discovery News “Several marine mammal species occur in Belizean waters, including small cetaceans, like bottlenose dolphins, and whales, like humpbacks,” Birgit Winning, president of…
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KOMO News
Poop-sniffing dogs helping save whales all over the world
KOMO News
Lots of fish also suppress those toxins already in orca blubber, so conservation managers know which protections can save one of the world’s most beloved sea creatures.
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Great white sharks supplement a seal diet with dead whales
EarthSky (blog)
Sharks have an excellent sense of smell, and could have picked up the odors from whale carcasses in Cape False.
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Study Reveals How Fishing Gear Can Cause Slow Death of Whales
Science Daily (press release)
On Feb. 1, 2011, an aerial survey observed Eg 3911 dead at sea. “She didn’t make it,” van der Hoop said. The whale was towed ashore for a necropsy.
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griseus: False killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) make rare appearance in Sea of Cortez, at the northen end of Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park False killer whales were named because they share feeding habits of some killer whales—notably…
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On March 17, the new Director of Wildlife of Tanzania posted an Opinion Piece in the New York Timesentitled “Saving Lions by Killing Them”.
Describing himself as “Tanzania’s highest ranking wildlife official”, Alexander Songorwa sought to appeal via this message to the US Fish and Wildlife Service NOT to list lions on the US Endangered Species Act. Mr Songorwa indicated that this action would be “disastrous” to “conservation” efforts by depriving Tanzania of much-needed income needed to support game reserves and community wildlife areas.
Mr Songorwa seems sadly out of touch with the status of Tanzania’s wildlife…
http://www.lionaid.org/blog/2013/03/saving-lions-by-killing-them.htm
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The continent’s lion population has shrunk by 75% in the past two decades, according to wildlife experts. They are currently “vulnerable” on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s list of threatened species. In west and central Africa lions are classified as “endangered”.
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