EXCERPT: The future for whales is threatened by countries' disregarding and working to lift the International Whaling Commission's moratorium on commercial whale hunting, as well as vessel strikes, fishing gear entanglements, ocean pollution including marine debris), habitat loss and human-created loud noise. Whales are some of Earth's largest animals, with the strongest and deepest voices. Some annually migrate from the tropics to the poles. Some sing elaborate songs, and many live in close, complex societies.
Showing posts with label sea life conservation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sea life conservation. Show all posts
5/29/21
ONE QUARTER OF THE GREY WHALES DIED IN THE PACIFIC LAST YEAR. WHAT'S HAPPENING?
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - WHALE DIE OFF IN THE PACIFIC by Kate Linthicum
Excellent article, photographs and graphics. But you have to sign up with your e-mail and I know some of you don't want to.
The question of why the whales are dying is a difficult one but malnutrition seems to be the cause. The last whale I saw beached up was a male and he was on the rocks quite some time before a high tide took him away. He looked a bit slim but perhaps he lost his mother?
11/6/16
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SEA CREATURES WHO EAT PLASTIC IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN?
OUR WORDS : PLASTIC POLLUTION IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN by Ivette Evangelista
EXCERPT: Sea creatures living in the Atlantic ecosystem tend to eat more plastic than having a healthy diet. A recent study in Nature, made by Chelea Rochman, an ecologist who specializes in Marine Ecology, reports that chemicals can be transferred into the fish. The study in the lab was split into three different groups: one received commercial fish feed, the second received 90% fish food and 10% clean plastic particles. The third group received 90% fish food and 10% plastic particles that had been floating in the San Diego Bay for three months. Researchers reported that the third group receiving polluted plastic had a greater concentration of plastic than the controlled diet group. Rochman suggests that “Both fish groups that ate plastic saw in increase in glycogen depletion,” which decreased the amount of glycogen in the liver of the fish. The ingestion of plastic caused the fish to experience stress because of the lack of protein.
EXCERPT: Sea creatures living in the Atlantic ecosystem tend to eat more plastic than having a healthy diet. A recent study in Nature, made by Chelea Rochman, an ecologist who specializes in Marine Ecology, reports that chemicals can be transferred into the fish. The study in the lab was split into three different groups: one received commercial fish feed, the second received 90% fish food and 10% clean plastic particles. The third group received 90% fish food and 10% plastic particles that had been floating in the San Diego Bay for three months. Researchers reported that the third group receiving polluted plastic had a greater concentration of plastic than the controlled diet group. Rochman suggests that “Both fish groups that ate plastic saw in increase in glycogen depletion,” which decreased the amount of glycogen in the liver of the fish. The ingestion of plastic caused the fish to experience stress because of the lack of protein.
3/11/16
"GALLON OF MILK" RARE ALBINO WHALE SPOTTED
CS MONITOR - HUGE ALBINO WHALE SPOTTED OFF MEXICO
EXCERPT: This specimen was observed for the first time during the 2008-2009 season as a whale calf with the albino characteristics for which it was named,” Conap (Commission of Natural Protected Areas) explains in a recent online post....
In the recent sighting, this time in the area known as Alambre Island in the Ojo de Liebre Lagoon, Gallon of Milk was accompanied by a calf that was completely gray, which must mean she has become a mother for the first time." ...
The bright white whale’s condition albinism makes her of a special kind, since the gene mutation that leads to a sharp decrease in the pigment melanin – or the lack of it – is barely recorded among marine mammals,” Tech Times explains.
EXCERPT: This specimen was observed for the first time during the 2008-2009 season as a whale calf with the albino characteristics for which it was named,” Conap (Commission of Natural Protected Areas) explains in a recent online post....
In the recent sighting, this time in the area known as Alambre Island in the Ojo de Liebre Lagoon, Gallon of Milk was accompanied by a calf that was completely gray, which must mean she has become a mother for the first time." ...
The bright white whale’s condition albinism makes her of a special kind, since the gene mutation that leads to a sharp decrease in the pigment melanin – or the lack of it – is barely recorded among marine mammals,” Tech Times explains.
7/1/14
10/11/11
MAD ABOUT SEASHELLS - THE SMITHSONIAN
Did you know that our nation's biggest museum, the SMITHSONIAN, has the largest collection of sea shells?
LINKING HERE TO AN ARTICLE CALLED
MAD ABOUT SEA SHELLS!
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LINKING HERE TO AN ARTICLE CALLED
MAD ABOUT SEA SHELLS!
click on title link
6/27/10
BAILEY MATTHEWS SHELL MUSEUM focuses on GULF COAST SHELLS and MOLLUSKS
Here's the link to a SEA SHELL and MOLLUSK MUSEUM in Florida that focuses on the sea creatures of the GULF OF MEXICO.
Now we would suggest that if you go to a beach to clean up and you find some washed up shells that you ASK someone - a teacher or the director of the clean up effort what you should do if you find sea shells. The scientists may want to study these rather than let you take them home.
REMEMBER THAT A GOOD SEA SHELL COLLECTOR ALWAYS identifies not only the shell, but the location it was found and the date.
Now we would suggest that if you go to a beach to clean up and you find some washed up shells that you ASK someone - a teacher or the director of the clean up effort what you should do if you find sea shells. The scientists may want to study these rather than let you take them home.
REMEMBER THAT A GOOD SEA SHELL COLLECTOR ALWAYS identifies not only the shell, but the location it was found and the date.
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