A stunning close-up of a female humpback whale's eye, shot by Renowned Photographer, Rachel Moore, is getting attention on social media platforms. The shot has been taken from the side of the whale's head, highlighting the wide field of vision afforded by its eye.
Two fishermen are safe after their boat was capsised by a whale off the New Hampshire shore near Odiorne Point State Park in Rye on Tuesday. The men were thrown overboard in the incident.
The whales are stranded at Toby Inlet in Geographe Bay, the Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions said. The area is near the town of Dunsborough, a region popular among tourists, and about 236 km south of the state capital Perth.
Payne made the discovery in 1967 during a research trip to Bermuda in which a Navy engineer provided him with a recording of curious underwater sounds documented while listening for Russian submarines.
Australia whales stranded: The development came just days after 14 sperm whales were found beached on an island off the southeastern coast.
A viral video of a whale performing acrobatics in water has left netizens amazed. Luckily, when the whale landed on the boat, it did not harm any travelers.
The fossil of the whale was found to belong to a group of extinct whales called Protocetidae that falls in the middle of the transition, said researchers.
North Atlantic right whales gave birth over the winter in greater numbers than scientists have seen since 2015, an encouraging sign for researchers who became alarmed three years ago when the critically endangered species produced no known offspring at all.
In a recently published study in the journal Endangered Species Research, the scientists analysed recordings from the Arabian Sea coast of Oman, and as far south as Madagascar, and found a blue whale song that had never been described.
Fishermen in Kerala released an endangered whale shark caught in their net in a rescue that netizens, activists and twitterati have lauded after a few photos of the incident went viral on social media. See the post here:
Rescuers are racing against time to save 270 stranded pilot whales off the west coast of Australia's Tasmania and about one-third of them have already died.
Domestic animals such as cats, cattle and sheep have been found to have a medium risk and dogs, horses and pigs were found to have low risk for contracting the deadly disease to date.
The Twitter has gone berserk with a viral video of some whale-like creatures swimming underwater, somewhere near the high shore oilfields of Mumbai. Despite being an absolutely lovely sight, the animals were not spotted in Bombay High. Moreover, the video is not recorded by any ONGC employees working at the offshore installation. Hence, the claims are false.
The energy that whales spend during feeding may exceed what they get from their prey, keeping the body size of the Earth's largest animals in check, according to a study.
This data was intriguing because the whale's highest heart rate almost outpaced predictions while the lowest heart rate was about 30 to 50 per cent lower than predicted.
It is hoped that in the future the technique will lead to real-time information as stranding events happen.
Japan exited the IWC in its first walkout from a major international organization after three decades of lobbying for the restart of commercial whaling, reports Kyodo News Agency.
"We seized 1.3 kg of ambergris, worth Rs. 1.7 crore, from him. It is a prohibited item. We have registered a case under relevant sections of the Wildlife Protection Act and have arrested Dupare," a police official said.
However, it is not yet confirmed if Wikie understood what she was saying.
A humpback whale that was stranded off an Australian beach has managed to free itself after its calf was seen apparently pushing it into deeper waters. The whale was stuck on a sandbar in the
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