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Rescuers battle to save stranded whales
Perth :: Australia | 8 months ago
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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 | 9 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 | 9 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 | 10 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
Stranded killer whale euthanized
Poipu :: HI :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A young female killer whale that washed up on a beach in Hawaii was euthanized after experts determined the animal was too sick to survive...The fact that you could see its ribs, the fact that you could see a defined neck and that you could see a pelvic...
Tags: killer whale, Hawaii
Watch Out for Killer Whales if Vacationing in British Waters
Anyone planning to hit the coasts of Britain any time soon should reconsider. Flocks of up to a 100 killer whales at a time are being spotted on the British seas and water lovers are thus advised caution. The notorious predators can even feast on great...
Tags: killer whale, fish, Britain
Canadian government faces suit over killer whales
Vancouver :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Environmentalists are taking the Canadian federal government to court, demanding it use Canada's Species at Risk Act to protect threatened and endangered pods of resident killer whales off British Columbia. Ecojustice, on behalf of eight environmental...
Man fined for disturbing whale pod with speeding boat
Sidney :: OH :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility From Friday's Globe and Mail August 15, 2008 at 4:34 AM EDT A Sidney, B.C., man has been convicted and fined for driving his boat at full speed through a pod of killer whales off the coast of the B.C. mainland. On Aug. 25, 2007, Xi Chang Gao was seen...
Tags: killer whale, B.C
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