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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
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hungry oriole chicks, an elderly sloth,
a soggy robin and a
stuck squirrel
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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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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
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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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