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Blue whale diving near Sri Lanka with a cargo ship in the background. Sbedaux/Getty Images Mediterranean Shipping Company rerouted its vessels to help protect blue whales near Sri Lanka. Conservation groups recommended the move after research showed it could help avoid whale collisions. Blue whales, which are endangered, grow to be 80 feet long and […]
Marcos Brindicci/Reuters The Trump administration gave five companies initial permission to conduct surveys of oil and gas deposits beneath a vast region off the US East Coast. The surveys will utilize sound-wave blasts that conservationists say put whales and dolphins at risk. President Donald Trump has espoused an “energy dominance” agenda to boost oil output […]
Two massive pods totaling up to 145 pilot whales beached and died after washing up on an hard-to-reach sandy beach in New Zealand. Half of the stranded mammals died when the help arrived, the rest were put down. New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DoC) has released daunting footage showing dozens of pilot whales sprawled helplessly […]
Arthur Kopelman conducts whale-watching cruises to collect data—while also educating the curious public. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b7f2b6c2c80eb32627bf11e/master/pass/Carrotta_Wired_Dr.Kopelman1.jpg
Oxford VR Oxford VR, a spin-out company of Oxford University, has developed an automated virtual reality programme which can help people conquer their fear of heights. The programme features a virtual therapist called Nic, who coaches people through various challenges like picking apples or rescuing a cat from a tree. The results of the first […]
More than 140 pilot whales have died after becoming stranded on a beach in Western Australia. A shark warning has now been issued as volunteers race to rescue the beached pod’s seven remaining survivors. The whales were spotted at Hamelin Bay on Australia’s southwest coast after around 150 of the oceanic mammals beached themselves in […]
Enlarge (credit: International Fund for Animal Welfare) Why are humans so smart? We must have evolved in an environment that made more intelligent individuals likely to survive. But this just raises new questions: what factors in the environment could have created an evolutionary pressure for intelligence? And how have other species that faced similar pressures ended […]
Published time: 17 Oct, 2017 23:03 Whales and dolphins may be more like us than previously thought. While they are more comfortable in water than humans, they live in tightly-knit social groups, have complex relationships, and speak to each other, a new study suggests. The major new wide ranging study, published Monday in the journal […]
Japan has announced the killing of 177 whales as part of its annual hunt, once again claiming the practice is for scientific research – a move which allows it to circumnavigate a moratorium on hunting the mammals. Three ships, which left port in June, returned with 43 minke whales and 134 sei whales, according to […]
High in the mountains of La Gomera in the Canary Islands a piercing whistle fills the air. It’s only Pablo asking Manuel in the next valley if he has a bottle of red wine to spare. Manuel whistles back saying he’ll bring a bottle round. While this scene may hark back decades, the whistling language […]
