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The west coast calls became more and more popular, until by 1998, none of the whales sang the east coast song; it was completely gone.
There's a lot of noise, which is mostly other whales.
There's a potential problem that maybe this kind of shipping noise would prevent whales from being able to hear each other.
This is an amazing thing: That in this frequency range where whales communicate, the main source globally, on our planet, for the noise comes from human ships, thousands of human ships, distant, far away, just all aggregating.
The next slide will show what the impact this may have on the range at which whales can communicate.
Whales also have contact calls like I described for the dolphins.
I'll play the sound of a contact call used by right whales to stay in touch.
Over the last 50 years, as we've put more noise into the oceans, these whales have had to shift.
And we now know that whales can compensate for noise by calling louder, like I did when that ship was playing, by waiting for silence and by shifting their call out of the noise band.
And I'm happy to say that there are several very promising developments in this area, looking at the impact of shipping on whales.
Endangered whales are killed every year by ship collision, and it's very important to try to reduce this.
The colorized area shows the risk of collision for endangered right whales because of the ships moving in this lane.
It turns out that this lane here goes right through a major feeding area of right whales in the summer time, and it makes an area of a significant risk of collision.
This reduced their fuel consumption by about 30 percent, which saved them money, and at the same time, it had a significant benefit for whales.
So to conclude, I'd just like to point out, you know, the whales live in an amazing acoustic environment.
I hope these examples have shown some of the different directions we can take in addition to protected areas to be able to keep the ocean safe for whales to be able to continue to communicate.
It isn't just there that this happens, but in a natural diet of some communities in the Canadian arctic and in the United States and in the European arctic, a natural diet of seals and whales leads to an accumulation of PCBs that have gathered up from all parts of the world and ended up in these women.
Now, in the Exxon Valdez spill, about 30 percent of the killer whales died in the first few months.
The first offshore wells were called whales.
We emptied the ocean of the whales at that time.
Chimpanzees, killer whales, these kinds of creatures, they have culture.
I love whales and dolphins, so obviously this movie works for me.
Also laughed at the letter some idiot writes in to Slash Magazine about how we do not need to save the whales, there are countless miles of ocean for us to pour toxins in!
In science we talked about whales (which was actually somewhat interesting, so this wasn't a 100% waste of time).
"Drawing Restraint 9" is a kind of movie one either loves or hates; fortunately or not, I left it with a strong feeling of wasted time and of being thoroughly stuffed with "killing whales is bad" propaganda.
This film is a must have for folks in their 50's who have seen the rise and fall of bands,people who knew the members, and have watched them hurt as age creeps in,and popularity fades.This is an almost perfect movie....sad but in a way positive....because of the whales.
However, Bette Davis(Daisey Appleby),"The Whales of August",'87 was very young and attractive and performed one of her best roles in a long career in Hollywood.
Beyond the dead or dying seals, penguins, and turtles that had the bad fortune of becoming entangled in plastic rings or nets, biologists are finding dead whales and birds with stomachs stuffed with plastic debris.
It is an open system in which anybody can create news or find a lobbyist to make his case, whether it is to save the whales or to eat them.
But there are many less familiar examples of information that is learned or acquired from parents by non-genetic means, ranging from the feeding techniques of monkeys and rats to the food preferences of rabbits and the song dialects of birds and whales.
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