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A dead grey whale on Limantour beach in California.

 

So many grey whale carcasses

have washed up on the US west coast this year

that authorities have run out of places to put them

and have asked landowners for help to bury them

 

Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

 

The week in wildlife – in pictures

This week:

hungry oriole chicks, an elderly sloth,

a soggy robin and a stuck squirrel

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Fri 21 Jun 2019        15.34 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2019/jun/21/
the-week-in-wildlife-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus),

such as this group of adults and calves,

learn and announce their group identity.

 

Photograph: SeaTops/Alamy

 

The secret call of the wild: how animals teach each other to survive

Cultural knowledge, passed from animal to animal,

is key to how species adapt to change in the world around them

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Thu 9 Apr 2020    06.30 BST

Last modified on Thu 9 Apr 2020    06.32 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/09/
the-secret-call-of-the-wild-how-animals-teach-each-other-to-survive-aoe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

whales        UK / USA

 

http://apps.npr.org/lookatthis/posts/whales/

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/06/
the-songs-that-saved-the-whales

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/jun/08/
the-sounds-of-melting-icebergs-and-whale-songs-a-journey-into-antarctica

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/30/
eight-foot-whale-found-washed-up-on-thames-shore

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/
760664122/what-happens-after-a-whale-dies

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/01/
634456181/scientists-are-spying-on-whales-to-learn-how-they-eat-talk-and-walked

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/13/
killing-blue-whale-disconnected-nature-sea-ignorance

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/
opinion/sunday/wrap-your-mind-around-a-whale.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/world/asia/
whaling-lamalera-indonesia.html

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/23/
529505847/how-the-biggest-animal-on-earth-got-so-big

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/10/
514557304/hundreds-of-whales-die-stranded-on-a-remote-new-zealand-beach

 

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/27/
487665728/mysterious-and-known-as-the-raven-scientists-identify-new-whale-species

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/16/
opinion/sunday/conversation-with-whales.html

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/08/06/
429862292/are-whales-and-dolphins-cultural-beings

http://www.npr.org/2015/08/06/
427851306/it-took-a-musicians-ear-to-decode-the-complex-song-in-whale-calls

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/30/
whales-philip-hoare-hal-whitehead

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/us/
12whales.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

gray / grey whale        USA

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2019/jun/21/
the-week-in-wildlife-in-pictures

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/01/
728033320/why-are-gray-whales-dying-researchers-cut-through-the-blubber-for-answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sperm whale        UK

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5521920/
Sperm-whales-use-babysitters-for-young.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sperm whale        USA

 

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2015/apr/16/
sperm-whale-pacifica-beach-california-video

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

humpback whale        UK

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/14/
dead-humpback-whale-in-thames

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

killer whale        USA

 

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/17/
544193748/seaworld-euthanizes-its-oldest-killer-whale-after-respiratory-issues

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/17/
470720804/seaworld-agrees-to-end-captive-breeding-of-killer-whales

 

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/26/
395287050/seaworld-ad-campaign-counters-criticism-over-treatment-of-whales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

orcas        UK

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/dec/29/
revisited-otters-badgers-and-orcas-can-the-pandemic-help-rewild-britain-podcast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

orcas,

also known as killer whales        USA

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/15/
750767475/washington-wheat-farmers-could-be-toast-if-dams-are-removed-to-help-hungry-orcas

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/31/
634314741/after-calfs-death-orca-mother-carries-it-for-days-in-tragic-tour-of-grief

 

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/25/
539305305/last-orca-born-in-captivity-at-seaworld-dies-at-just-3-months-old

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/20/
524864976/seaworld-welcomes-its-last-orca-born-in-captivity

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/06/
508534005/tilikum-seaworlds-famed-orca-and-subject-of-blackfish-dies

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/
opinion/sunday/can-we-see-our-hypocrisy-to-animals.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

blue whale        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/13/
killing-blue-whale-disconnected-nature-sea-ignorance

 

 

 

 

whale songs        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/jun/08/
the-sounds-of-melting-icebergs-and-whale-songs-a-journey-into-antarctica

 

 

 

 

stranded whale        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/02/
wildlife.conservation

 

 

 

 

anti-whaling protesters        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/feb/09/
whaling.activists1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corpus of news articles

 

Earth > Wildlife > Water > Mammals > Whales

 

 

 

Wayward Whales Closing in

on Golden Gate

 

May 30, 2007

Filed at 7:58 a.m. ET

The New York Times

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

 

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- A humpback and her calf were seen less than 10 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge and the salty sea after a two-week sojourn through a Northern California river delta.

The wayward whales passed under the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge at the north end of San Francisco Bay on Tuesday afternoon. If the humpbacks can navigate south around a peninsula and a nearby island, few obstacles would remain on their route past Alcatraz to the Pacific Ocean.

''They're heading very much in the right direction,'' said Rod McInnis, a spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Still, there are fears the whales might continue into the long southern half of the bay instead of turning west and exiting into the Pacific.

''There are lots of places they could get themselves into trouble before they go out of the Golden Gate,'' McInnis said.

The duo was first spotted May 13 and got as far as 90 miles inland to the Port of Sacramento before turning around.

Biologists said the saltier water where the mother humpback whale and her calf have been swimming since leaving Rio Vista has helped reverse some of the health problems caused by long exposure to fresh water.

Lesions that had formed on the humpbacks' skin over the weekend appeared to be sloughing off, California Department of Fish and Game deputy director Bernadette Fees said. Scientists also reported that a coating of algae that was clinging to the mother had fallen away.

Veterinarians were unable Monday to see whether the whales' wounds had started to heal, Fees said. Antibiotics were injected into the whales on Saturday to try to slow the damage from the gashes, likely caused by a boat's keel.

With the whales on the move, officials did not plan to take any action to prod them toward the Golden Gate Bridge.

A convoy of boats was escorting the pair to protect them from heavy ship traffic in the bay. Bay Area ferry commuters could face delays depending on the whales' location, Coast Guard officials said.

Over the Memorial Day weekend, the U.S. Coast Guard hauled several swimmers out of the water as they tried to approach the whales and fended off about 100 boats carrying would-be whale watchers.

Ariadne Green, 57, of Vallejo, came to the waterfront to catch a glimpse Tuesday after traveling last week to Rio Vista, where the whales circled for a week before heading toward the ocean. She said seeing the humpbacks was a ''profound spiritual experience.''

''They need to go home now because their health is in jeopardy,'' Green said. ''It's good to know they're on their way back.''

Wayward Whales Closing in on Golden Gate,
NYT,
30.5.2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Delta-Whales.html - broken URL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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