WHALES AHOY - DARWIN DAILY

Dozens of whales die in New Zealand mass stranding

Mar 17, 2022 (AFP)

The Department of Conservation said 29 long-finned pilot whales were already dead when the pod of 34 marine mammals was found at remote Farewell Spit on the Sou...

How much energy does a dolphin use to swim?

Feb 28, 2022 (SPX)

Being able to estimate these energy costs of locomotion (COL) and determine where the metabolic tipping point might be is essential for answering fundamental qu...

Faroe Islands begin review of controversial dolphin hunt

Feb 15, 2022 (AFP)

A petition with almost 1.3 million signatures calling for a ban on the traditional hunt was submitted to the Faroese government on Monday, the prime minister's ...

US calls for talks with Mexico on endangered porpoise

Feb 10, 2022 (AFP)

The office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) said it is requesting consultations with Mexico under the Environment Chapter of the United States-Mexico-Canad...

Wounded whale found dead on Greek island

Feb 02, 2022 (AFP)

The male Cuvier's beaked whale was first found on a beach south of the Greek capital late last week. Experts quickly gave it hydration and antibiotics before re...

Ailing whale found near Athens returns to deeper waters

Jan 29, 2022 (AFP)

The male Cuvier's beaked whale is now swimming near the southern island of Salamis, deputy environment minister Georgios Amyras told state TV ERT, adding that i...

Giant rubber whale helps Kiwi rescuers battle beachings

Dec 20, 2021 (AFP)

"Keep the blowhole clear... you're too close to the tail, one swipe can do a serious injury to yourself and the whale," an instructor yells as the Wellington ra...

Melting Arctic ice draws killer whales further north

Dec 17, 2021 (AFP)

With Arctic sea ice shrinking at record levels due to global warming, killer whales are expanding their hunting grounds further north and spending more time in ...

Russia to ban capturing whales for aquariums

Dec 10, 2021 (AFP)

Images of 100 whales cramped into a notorious facility dubbed the "whale jail" in Russia's far east sparked an international outcry in 2018. The whales, which w...

Russia closes notorious 'whale jail'

Dec 03, 2021 (AFP)

Almost 100 whales were kept in the secretive facility in Srednyaya Bay near the far eastern town of Nakhodka in 2018, before being released after an intense cam...

Dolphins perform special spin dive when hunting deep prey

Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)

Spin dives can be observed from the surface, and the team of researchers had seen Risso's dolphins perform these dives in several hunting grounds. 'Our expectat...

Dutch judge blocks dolphin transfer to China

Nov 09, 2021 (AFP)

Conservation groups Sea Shepherd and the local House of Animals group dragged a Dutch dolphinarium before the Amsterdam Regional Court to stop the export to the...

Massive whale beaches itself in northern France

Nov 07, 2021 (AFP)

The fin whale, weighing around 15 tonnes, apparently beached itself after getting injured, a rare phenomenon in the area. "It is a female, about 30 years old, w...

Whales more important ecosystems engineers than previously thought

Nov 04, 2021 (SPX)

This paradoxical result is a sign of just how much the precipitous decline of the large marine mammals has negatively impacted the health and productivity of oc...

Endangered right whales continue to die off

Oct 24, 2021 (UPI)

Each October the consortium releases a preview of its annual report card on right whale populations. The 2021 estimated population of right whales is 340, with ...

Marine scientists urge Biden administration to protect Gulf of Mexico Rice's whales

Oct 14, 2021 (UPI)

Rice's whales are a new whale species discovered last year in an effort led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the Gulf of Mexico. They a...

Two stranded humpback whales rescued in Argentina

Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)

The animals were stranded on the beach of the seaside resort town of La Lucila del Mar, 220 miles (360 kilometers) south of Buenos Aires, just as spring arrives...

Human whistled languages may help decipher dolphin communication

Sep 21, 2021 (UPI)

In a new paper, published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, scientists argue these languages can aid the study of dolphin communication. Whistled ...

Faroe Islands mass dolphin slaughter casts shadow over tradition

Sep 20, 2021 (AFP)

The hunt always sparks fierce criticism abroad, but never so much as last week when a particularly bountiful catch saw 1,428 dolphins massacred in one day, rais...

Faroe Islands to re-evaluate dolphin-hunting after outcry

Sep 16, 2021 (AFP)

"The government has decided to start an evaluation of the regulations on the catching of Atlantic white-sided dolphins," the northern archipelago's prime minist...