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Revealed: the albatross's unlikely dinner date
Hobart :: Australia | about 1 month ago
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It is one of the most remarkable wildlife pictures ever taken: in the wilderness of the Antarctic Ocean, three albatrosses glide stiff-winged over the waves just behind the unmistakable dorsal fin of a killer whale. There are only two black-browed albatrosses...
Tags: killer whale
Migaloo spotted in the Whitsundays
Sunshine Coast :: Australia | 2 months ago
Credibility Migaloo has starred in another whale sighting off Queensland's north coast on his annual migration north to breed in warmer waters. The albino whale was sighted between Hardy Reef and Shute Harbour in the Whitsundays on Tuesday. The skipper of Fantasea...
Tags: Queensland, killer whale, Migaloo
Struggling pygmy killer whale rescued on Maui, taken to marine sanctuary
Kihei :: HI :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Maui- A pygmy killer whale that stranded itself near Ma'alaea Harbor on Friday morning was probably from a pod of whales that has been lingering off the north Kihei shoreline for more than a week, officials said. The whale was rescued around 9:30 a.m.
Tags: killer whale, pygmy killer, Maui
TV review: 'Call of the Killer Whale' on PBS
Mexico City :: Mexico | 6 months ago
Credibility Not if you believe filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau, and it's pretty hard not to believe him when he and other scientists make the case that unless we do something fast, killer whales will be extinct by the end of the century. "Call of the Killer Whale,"...
Tags: Killer Whale, Jean-Michel Cousteau
Rescuers battle to save stranded whales
Perth :: Australia | 7 months ago
Credibility The Department of Environment and Conservation has confirmed 80 false killer whales and some bottlenose dolphins are stranded at Hamelin Bay, near Margaret River, 323km south of Perth. A spokeswomen told PerthNow only 25 whales were still alive.
Tags: Hamelin Bay Caravan Park, PerthNow, killer whale, stranding whale, false killer, Western Australia, remain whale, Australian Associated Press, kilometres south, Augusta
Third baby orca spotted near San Juan Islands
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility The Center for Whale Research on San Juan Island says a new baby orca has been born, the third Puget Sound baby killer whale spotted this year...The baby orca, part of the J-pod family group and named J45, was first seen Tuesday in Haro Strait.
Tags: baby orca, killer whale
Rainstorms delay need for emergency decisions on water
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Recent storms have lifted the need for an emergency decision on how to balance the water needs of two imperiled fish species for the rest of the month, a state water official testified Tuesday. State water managers last week asked regulators for an emergency...
Tags: killer whale, California Delta
Older is better for whale moms: study (Reuters)
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Older mothers may do a better job raising their children than younger, less-experienced moms, at least among killer whales, researchers reported on Monday. They studied 30 years of data to show that calves born to the oldest killer whales were 10 percent...
Tags: killer whale
ABC 2 Atlanta (WSB-TV): HPU Team Studies Beached Whale's Tissue
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A team of Hawaii Pacific University scientists and students said it is working against the clock to determine what caused a killer whale to beach itself on Kauai's shore earlier this week. Seven hundred pounds of tissue taken from the killer whale found...
Tags: Kauai, killer whale
List of killer whales missing from Puget Sound
Seattle :: WA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility L-67, "Splash," female, born 1985, mother of "Luna," a juvenile killer whale that made headlines in 2001 when he turned up in Canadian waters, missing September 2008; L-101, "Aurora," male, brother of "Luna," born 2002, missing summer 2008; L-111, born...
Tags: San Juan Island, puget sound, killer whale, Center for Whale Research, orcas missing
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