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 Announcement significant step forward in global whale protection efforts |
 Whales roll 360 degrees in order to orientate themselves for a surprise attack. |
 Leopard seal observed eating krill like a whale, by sucking them into its mouth and sieving them through special teeth. |
 Tests indicate that wholly arbitrary syntactic rules could be understood and that an understanding of the function of words occuring early in a sentence could be carried out by the dolphin on the... |
 Researchers in the US have been shocked to discover a beluga whale whose vocalisations were remarkably close to human speech. |
 An animal rights group in Singapore has released a video as part of its campaign to get 25 wild-caught dolphins released back into the wild. |
 US Fisheries Service which is charged with protecting marine mammals has to finalize and implement protections for false killer whales by November 30, 2012, court rules. |
 Lung collapse is considered the primary mechanism that limits nitrogen absorption and decreases the risk of decompression sickness in deep-diving marine mammals. |
 Gillnet fishing has dramatically reduced the numbers of freshwater Irrawaddy dolphins over the last decades. |
 WhaleFest returns to Brighton, UK - the world’s premiere event for whale and dolphin enthusiasts with conservationists, divers, whale and dolphin experts and people from across the globe. |
 The dugong is threatened by extinction, but the Pacific Islands region support efforts to save the world’s largest remaining population of dugongs. |
 Not only that, President Juan Evo Morales himself had called on the country's armed forces to protect the river basins where the Bolivian pink dolphin lives. |
 Ten different “ecotypes” of orcas have now been proposed: populations that look different, have different prey preferences, feeding habits and acoustic behaviours. |
 The Mexican government and the Pronatura Noroeste organization signed an accord to improve protection of San Ignacio Lagoon which serves as a refuge for gray whales. |
 High levels of background noise, mainly due to ships, have reduced the ability of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales to communicate with each other by about two-thirds. |
 New recordings of their songs suggest their population might be bouncing back |
 The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has taken up the cause of some of the world’s most critically endangered marine mammals by calling on governments to keep fishing nets out of their... |
 As more evidence surfaces that whale watching tours are having a negative impact on individuals and populations of whales and dolphins, a new coalition of whale and dolphin watching companies from... |
 A proposal to create a whale sanctuary in the southern Atlantic lacked "scientific backing", Japan said on Tuesday after leading the charge to scupper the plan at an international meeting. |
In a desperate attempt to save the life of one of their own, two young male manatees risks their own life when tropical storm Debbie moves in over Tampa late june 2012 |
 A US federal judge has ordered SeaWorld to enact safety measures to protect its trainers. |
 New evidence show these difficult to study deep-diving creatures use specific ocean features such as salinity and temperature to find their prey. |
 The Pacific gray whale population received a significant and much-needed boost this season, which is evident by the remarkable number of calves passing California on their first-ever journey to... |
 The world's most northerly resident population of bottlenose dolphins is stable and may even be increasing, according to new research. |
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