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Baja 2017 Blog Week 7
TWO OLD BLUE WHALE GUYS, 1000 STAMPEDING DOLPHINS, AND A POLE
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Baja 2017 Blog Week 6
THE GENTLE GIANTS FEED AND HAVE THEIR BLOWS COLLECTED
Our week 6 guests hailed from Massachusetts, Alaska and Australia.
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Baja 2017 Blog Week 5
ORCAS – MOTHERS MILK – LOTS OF WHALES
Our week 5 guests were all from North Carolina.
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Great Whale Conservancy (GWC) Ship Strikes Strategy
Dwarfing all dinosaurs, the blue whale is the largest animal to have ever graced our planet. This intelligent marine predator is a keystone
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Baja 2017 Blog Week 4
RETURN OF NUBBIN – PINELLA – A HUGE BLUE WHALE DAY
Our week 4 guests from New Mexico, England and Florida had to brave some windy weather,
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Baja 2017 Blog Week 3
OLD FRIENDS, ORCAS AND FEEDING BLUE WHALES!
Week 3 guests from England, Virginia, North Carolina and Washington DC met with both
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Baja 2017 Blog Week 2
Week 2 was another special one with the sea continuing to be full of krill and large whales observed surface feeding every day we were on th
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How Drones Are Helping Scientists Study the Future of Whales
Ocean Alliance created the "Snotbot," a drone they designed to capture both images of the whales and live biological samples of the "snot" t
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GWC’s Michael Fishbach to give Lecture at the famed Explorer’s Club in New York City
GWC’s Michael Fishbach to give Lecture at the famed Explorer’s Club in New York City on Wed. Dec. 7. Event is open to the public, see here f
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Dead Blue Whale on Peninsula Likely Hit By Ship, Marine Mammal Center Says
The 65-foot sub-adult carcass washed ashore earlier this week. Partial results from a necropsy are in.
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Orca Killed by Satellite Tag Leads to Criticism of Science Practices
The death of a rare killer whale in the Pacific Northwest has been linked to a tagging effort, causing an outcry and re-evaluation…
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North Carolina Marine Debris Symposium
The GWC’s Michael Fishbach will make the kickoff presentation at the upcoming North Carolina Marine Debris Symposium in Wilmington, NC on Su
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Vacuuming an Enormous Fake Blue Whale
Once a year, the American Museum of Natural History in New York performs a banal yet oddly fascinating ritual: It cleans its life-size model
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Endangered blue whale harpooned and killed by Icelandic whalers, Sea Shepherd says
“The killing of a blue whale crosses a line for us at the GWC. We pledge for the time being a boycott of anything and everything Icelandic,
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Shipping noise impairs ability of humpback whales to forage
Shipping noise in the North Atlantic could impact population levels of the whales, new research shows.
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Who’d have guessed: Whale poop keeps fish on your plate – and helps reduce global warming too
It’s been just in the past few years that scientists have been able to construct an overview of what drives, and maintains the health of, ma
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