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Recent issue from the shamelessly Nazi-loving Royal Society on #animal #culture

#elephants #whales #birds #fish #sociallearning

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2025/380/1925?volume=380&vol=380&issue=1925&publicationCode=rstb

Right Whale from the shore at Race Point Beach Provincetown MA 05/02//25 #rightwhale #rightwhaletosave #northatlanticrightwhale #whale #whalephotography #whales #whalesofmastodon #whalesofprovincetown #nature #naturephotography #naturecommunity #wildlifephotography #marinemammals #provincetown #massachusetts #newengland #capecod

Blue whale decline in Sri Lanka tied to climate and human activity https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/blue-whale-decline-in-sri-lanka-tied-to-climate-and-human-activity/

#SriLanka #marinelife #whales #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Australia's southern right whale population recovery has stalled, new study reveals https://phys.org/news/2025-05-australia-southern-whale-population-recovery.html 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science

[Cardona et al.] Cetaceans and sea turtles in the northern region of the Mediterranean Cetacean Migration Corridor: abundance and multi-model habitat suitability analysis https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2025.1496039/full 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Dolphins #Whales #Science

https://chrissmaje.com/2020/06/why-oil-didnt-save-the-whales-and-why-it-matters/

#ClimateChange #whales #oil #ecology #capitalism

A firm principle of the oil salvation narrative is that human inventiveness brings forth new and superior alternatives to old and ecocidal ones, like kerosene for whale oil, and that market forces then swiftly do the work of ecological transition. But, leaving aside kerosene’s own ecocidal effects (Point 2), the history of whaling really doesn’t fit this narrative well. Substitutes for almost every whale product existed long before commercial whaling was banned in 1982, 130 years after Mr Gesner’s marvellous invention. The truth is that market forces don’t swiftly do the work of ecological transition, for numerous reasons – sunk costs, industry resistance, political leverage, wider geopolitics to name a few. Cue TED talk: “Oil didn’t save the whales, and market forces aren’t going to solve climate change.”

Some pilot whales on a rough day in November 2024 off #newfoundland

#NewfoundlandAndLabrador #whales #whale #marine #storm

Day 6 With no time to recover from the events of the last 12 hours, we find ourselves back on Zodiacs, on our way to Stonington Island Home to 2 research bases, East Base & Station E, as well as an plenty of crabeater #seals, humpback #whales, Adelie #penguins, & shags #Antarctica #photography

Several crab eater seals resting on a snow-covered hillside, with a glacial lagoon in the background

Sony A1 ii, Sony 300mm - 1/800, f/5.6, ISO500

Adelie penguins porpoising across the water.

Sony A1 ii, Sony 300mm + 2x TC - 1/1250, f/5.6, ISO1200

An Antarctic shag flying through the scene.

Sony A1 ii, Sony 300mm + 2x TC - 1/1000s, f/5.6, ISO1000

Humpback whales preparing for a dive as massive icebergs float about behind.

Sony A1 ii, Sony 300mm + 2x TC - 1/1000, f/5.6, ISO1000

[Garland et al.] Culture and conservation in baleen whales https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2024.0133 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science

[Darias-O’Hara et al.] Behavioural response thresholds for the assessment of noise impact on Antarctic marine mammal species https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X25001538?dgcid=rss_sd_all 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Dolphins #Porpoises #Pinnipeds #Seals #Science

The Blue Whale at the Core Science Facility in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

A massive skeleton suspended in the Memorial University of Newfoundland's Core Science Facility.#bones #skeletons #whales #section-Atlas
The Blue Whale at the Core Science Facility

"Listening to whales is key to their conservation"

#Whales #Animals #Conservation

https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025/04/listening-to-whales-is-key-to-their-conservation/

https://www.alojapan.com/1260163/majestic-photos-capture-rare-albino-killer-whale-leaping-out-of-water-off-japanese-coast/ Majestic photos capture rare albino killer whale leaping out of water off Japanese coast #Albinos #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #MarineLife #news #ViralVideos #whales #WorldNews An incredibly rare albino orca was caught on camera leaping out of the ocean, leaving an impassioned wildlife photographer “shaking with excitement.” Japanese freelance photographer Noriyuki Hayakawa snapped the once-in-a-lifetime shot of the snowy mammal…

#Talla2XLC
#DJBuzz
#Whales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTZgzyr8QIs

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #428: Porphyrios.
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#porphyrios #porphyriosthewhale #whales #whalesvsyachts #animalswithgrudges #history #byzantine #ships #funfacts #strangebuttrue #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Porphyrios was a whale who regularly attacked and sank Byzantine ships for fifty years during the sixth century CE. Sailors were terrified of him and changed their routes just to avoid him, and Emperor Justinian I declared him an enemy of the Roman empire.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #428: Porphyrios.
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#porphyrios #porphyriosthewhale #whales #whalesvsyachts #animalswithgrudges #history #byzantine #ships #funfacts #strangebuttrue #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Finished assembling 5 whales keychains today! One is available in my shop!
🐳 https://evanskyarts.com/en/products/whale-keychain 🐳

I made a few slight changes to the design and the old pictures were no good, so they got brand new product pictures!

#art #handmade #whale #whales #gift #giftideas #smallbusiness #animals #cuteanimals #fediart #fedigiftshop #mastoart #pixelfed

Five whale keychains photographed on a black and wooden background, surrounded with decorative plants and two shades of blue felt.
The whales have a diamond-shaped body with bright blue bellies and dark blue backs and fins. Small black eye, pink blushes, and three clear blue lines are embroidered on their faces and bellies.
On their heads are attached an ivory ribbon, linking them to small bronze-coloured key rings.

Whales and dolphins at risk as report reveals ecological decline in Gulf of California https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/whales-and-dolphins-at-risk-as-report-reveals-ecological-decline-in-gulf-of-california/

#marinelife #whales #dolphins #California #GulfOfCalifornia #environment

@hikingdude @TimKStanton I was lucky enough to see whales about 1000 nm north of Hawaii on a NOAA research cruise. I was so surprised all I could get out of my mouth was to point and stammer ... big ... big ... dolphins. Funny thing was I spotted them before the group on the cruise that was there specifically to spot them ... but in their defense, the whales popped up close to our ship an they were busy scanning the horizon and further out. I did the best I could with the camera I had at the time (April 2008). #Whales #NorthPacific #NOAA

Project Jonah's Marine Mammal ID Cards are a handy tool to help you identify common species seen in Aotearoa - from orca and humpbacks to dusky dolphins and Māui dolphins.

Order yours today - they're free post anywhere in New Zealand: www.projectjonah.org.nz/product/whale-id-cards/

#ProjectJonah #NewZealand #MarineMammals #Whales #Dolphins

#whales

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