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Rat Eradication
They may have even been cast adrift on whale carcasses pushed off the beaches after the whales were processed by the whalers only for them ...
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SoundNet - Marine management is all at sea
Japan has an embarrassing surplus when it comes to whale carcasses. So why is the Japanese government still ... still preferred catching more profitable fish, and consumers continued to prefer anything but whale. Government spokespeople then began touting whale meat as a solution to feeding the world's starving masses. ...
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Ocean Alliance - RESEARCH
Odyssey Chief Scientist, Dr. Celine Godard shows a tissue sample taken from a sperm whale. Photo: Iain Kerr BENIGN RESEARCH A hallmark of OA's long-term survey program has ... utilized by marine biologists worldwide. Traditional techniques for assessing populations of whales have relied on whale carcasses provided by the whaling industry. Even though this method continues to be used in some ...
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SoundNet - Whale fall
Baja Peninsula of Mexico. Although whale carcasses tend to accumulate along these migratory paths, they ... has been fortunate enough to sink a whale near his lab. The whale falls that have been studied off ... whale-fall habitat by up to 95%, potentially wiping out up to half of the species that were specialized to live on whale carcasses in some ocean basins3. Each time a whale ...
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The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation - Research - Methods
Drifting whale carcasses: Drifting and beached whale carcasses within the Monterey Bay and Eastern pacific often involve evidence of shark bites. ... documented a large adult white shark, well offshore feeding upon a dead adult sperm whale (P. macrocephalus). Also interesting and alarming is the series of photos (click below) ...
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MBARI - News releases, news briefs, and feature stories - 2008
In those six years, Vrijenhoek and his team observed the ecosystem thriving around this carcass, discovered strange and wonderful worms with roots, sank five more whale carcasses to create artificial whale falls, and hauled cow bones to the seafloor to see if worms would grow on them too. ^Two flatfish rest beside vertebrae from a dead whale ...
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Eating and drinking - Natural History Museum
Tring External links Rainforest Alliance sustainable coffee Toolbox Print version Email this page Until 1938 whale carcasses were buried in the Museum grounds so that their flesh would decay leaving only the ...
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To kill a whale Interview with senior veterinarian, Jústines Olsen, on killing methods in the pilot whale hunt
But in a pilot whale hunt there are many people working together quickly in uncontrolled ... be inserted into the air sac without wounding the whale, and the whale can then be easily guided in the desired direction ... whale carcasses after a hunt, under the supervision of teachers and experienced whalers. In this way they learn about the whale' ...
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Whale falls, wood, or kelp: A bonanza for life in the deep sea (01/14/03)
Whale carcasses that fall to the seafloor provide a sudden, concentrated food source, a bonanza for organisms in the deep sea. Different stages in the decomposition of the whale ... biological communities supported by decomposing whale falls and to compare ... whale carcasses (a 35 ton grey whale) was towed into place by these researchers in 1998. They have dated the bones of the other two (natural) whale ...
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Monterey Bay Aquarium: Mission to the Deep Exhibit - Mission #3: Investigate a Sunken Whale
Example Mission #3: Investigate a Sunken Whale When a whale dies, its enormous bones settle on the sea floor, ... at these “whalefalls” over time, MBARI scientists have sunk five whale carcasses in Monterey Bay and have been using remotely operated vehicles ... are filled with bacteria that help the worms adsorb nutrients from whale bones. *Please Note: In order to view this video you ...
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