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And under 100 percent sea ice in the dead of winter, bowhead whales are singing.

Now, Arctic whales, like this bowhead, they have no dorsal fin, because they have evolved to live and swim in ice-covered waters, and having something sticking off of your back is not very conducive to migrating through ice, and may, in fact, be excluding animals from the ice.

But now, everywhere we've listened, we're hearing the sounds of fin whales and humpback whales and killer whales, further and further north, and later and later in the season.

And we now know that ship noise increases levels of stress hormones in whales and can disrupt feeding behavior.

Air guns, which produce loud, low-frequency "whoomps" every 10 to 20 seconds, changed the swimming and vocal behavior of whales.

And it's an important food source in the ocean for many species, from krill to salmon right up to whales.

With the spotlight on more charismatic marine animals such as the whales and coral reefs, it is easy to forget that other marine life needs our help, too.

Off the rugged coast of the pacific northwest, pods of killer whales inhabit the frigid waters.

Though killer whales inhabit every major ocean, until recently we knew very little about them.

Thanks to their ongoing work, we’ve learned a great deal about these whales, known as the Southern Residents.

In fact, humans, killer whales and a few other whales are the only species whose females continue to live for years after they stop reproducing.

But when the salmon head towards shore in droves to spawn, the killer whales follow.

The matriarch shows the younger whales where to find the most fertile fishing grounds.

With each passing year, her contributions become more vital: overfishing and habitat destruction have decimated salmon populations, putting the whales at near-constant risk of starvation.

A couple unique circumstances change this equation for killer whales.

Even with the grandmothers’ contributions, the Southern Resident killer whales are critically endangered, largely due to a decline in salmon.

And that water that you see there is the open lead, and through that lead, bowhead whales migrate north each springtime.

Introduction of red down here, when whales are being cut up.

These are all of the people in "The Whale Hunt" and the two whales that were killed down here.

And we could do something as arbitrary as, say, extract the story of Rony, involving the concepts of blood and whales and tools, taking place on the Arctic Ocean, at Ahkivgaq camp, with the heartbeat level of fast.

These whales are about 40 feet long, and weighing over 40 tons.

These copepods are a major constituent of the oceans, and they are a major part of the diet of grazing baleen whales.

Now, orcas are also known as killer whales.

And about two or three years after they can hear as well as you and I can, they'll be able to hear maybe how bats sing, or how whales talk, or how dogs talk, and other types of tonal scales.

And I hope Jill Tarter's wish to engage Earthlings includes dolphins and whales and other sea creatures in this quest to find intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

We can go actually and swim around on Google Earth and visit with humpback whales.

Most of the turtles, sharks, tunas and whales are way down in numbers.

There are still some blue whales.

Or the Antarctic, where the continent is protected, but the surrounding ocean is being stripped of its krill, whales and fish.

So, very unexpectedly, they ran out of customers before they ran out of whales.

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