Critter News

OCTOBER 10, 2010

A bountiful crop of krill and busy shipping lanes are to blame for a rash of dead whales that have surfaced around the Bay Area within a few short months, according to scientists. Last year's krill population was also large, but it did not bring the same cluster of whale deaths.

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

I was out to dinner with my husband and the question just popped into my head- every human civilization has independently developed religions and I was just wondering everything we don’t know about the animal world as we can’t communicate with them. My train of thought is: animals can communicate ?

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Critter News

APRIL 8, 2010

The steeply declining number of whales in the world's oceans is causing the remaining creatures to suffer loneliness and 'lose the will the live', a leading expert has claimed. The psychological impact of over-hunting on the highly intelligent and sociable animals has been identified as the latest threat to the survival of the species.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 3, 2010

A severely injured whale off the shores of Olympia has little chance of survival, an expert said Thursday. The animal is either a sei or Bryde's whale, said biologist John Calambokidis with Cascadia Research. The injuries are making it difficult for the animal to surface normally. "It This is really sad.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 28, 2010

This is a truly amazing animal encounter! Half way into her journey got some unexpected company, a 30-foot pygmy whale that Jodie nicknamed Larry. Half way into her journey got some unexpected company, a 30-foot pygmy whale that Jodie nicknamed Larry. Isn’t it great that Larry the pygmy whale helped a great cause?!

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Critter News

MAY 18, 2009

Looks like blue whales may be coming back to Alaska. From the Associated Press: Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say. Here's hoping Sarah Palin leaves them alone.

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Critter News

MAY 2, 2011

The ABC reports five crews from the town of Ayukawa have joined the hunt, even though the tsunami destroyed Ayukawa Whaing's storage facility and carried its fleet of three whaling vessels hundreds of metres inland, where they remain.

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2009

A brief story with two subjects I love, whales and the Azores. On 5th January 2009 a North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) was seen 5 miles south of Faial Island in the Azores by biologists from Whale Watch Azores and the University of the Azores (UA). Tags: oceans right whale azores whaling.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2024

They are ridiculously unafraid of people there – so the cynic in me suspects that swan meat is not regarded as tasty by the Japanese (another explanation, that the Japanese just like animals too much, can presumably be discarded given the country’s very principled approach in insisting on the right to kill whales).

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 17, 2011

What a wonderful video, especially the joy and exuberance of the whale at the end! Thank you to Blue World Aquariums for sharing this with us. Great work!

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Critter News

MARCH 1, 2010

In fact, the animal research supporter in my book club said that very same thing. (By Animals are commodities for her. Tags: Sea World captivity killer whales Orcas. The argument that they have "plenty of room" has been made about elephants too. By the way, she works for a company that does clinical testing for drug companies.

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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2009

First wolves, then polar bears, now beluga whales. And those are just the endangered animals (remember the turkey being ground up during her tv interview?) The State of Alaska has worked cooperatively with the federal government to protect and conserve beluga whales in Cook Inlet," Palin said last week.

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

1 Whale Shark 2 Manatee 3 Humpback Whale submitted by /u/cockatielparrot [link] [comments]

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Critter News

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Morgan, a 4-year-old killer whale, has lost her bid for freedom Agriculture Secretary Henk Bleker ruled Wednesday that the orca, rescued last year ailing and emaciated from the Wadden Sea off the northern Dutch coast, should be transferred to an amusement park on the Spanish island of Tenerife.

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 10, 2023

If there's a video of a cute otter people will be like, "Oh otters are actually like this", or a killer whale having a wholesome interaction, "it probably wanted to do this" etc. Blatant speciesm tbh submitted by /u/MIDI_Jeanist [link] [comments]

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

Whales are cows. It is technically correct, and recently fashionable, to insist that any living animal is a member of the larger group that contains it phylogenetically, i.e., ancestrally, with that group often named after the known animal that roots the tree. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 10, 2024

Amazingly not the first time non-humans have been given the same rights as people. link] submitted by /u/Drwatson99999 [link] [comments]

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Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Like I get the general idea of how they do it but it seems absolutely incredible that animals as massive as Great white Sharks, Orca's and even some of the bigger whales manage to launch their entire bodies several feet or even much more above the surface. And I'm talking specifically about the bigger animals.

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 30, 2023

[link] submitted by /u/Hairy_Celebration_57 [link] [comments]

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 3, 2024

"The Lazy Naturalist" is a game about identifying animals whose common names reference other animals. I call it "The Lazy Naturalist" because it's as if whoever named the animal couldn't be bothered to come up with a descriptive or original name, so instead, they just referenced some other animal.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2013

It took me awhile, but I managed to get on quite a few, especially when the boat slowed down to go check out some Humpback Whales and a huge number of Common Dolphins. Sooty Shearwaters and a Western Gull fly back the aftermath of a Humpback Whale breaching. Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae. It was amazing.

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 30, 2023

• Tigers and other big cats are able to mimic other animals, tigers in specific mimic deer, bear, cattle and monkeys and the South American Margay can mimic the call of baby monkeys to lore adults. " • Baluga Whales can also mimic voices, whilst on the topic of mimicry a Baluga often toyed with humans by saying "Out!"

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Reddit Animals

MAY 28, 2021

submitted by /u/Ambitious_Sir7113 [link] [comments].

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I actually have many targets, in a way, a I want to see lots and lots, but there is one species that the reason that the trip is even happening, the animal that has been pretty much the top of my animal bucket list for well over a decade. My animal bucket list hasn’t changed much either, for similar reasons.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2013

These mangroves function as a sanctuary for fish and other animals that then make their way as adults across the channel to the coral reefs that surround the island. Swimming with a whale shark on the boat-trip to Isla Isabel. It is a wonderful spot to watch the humpback whales breach in the crystal-clear waters.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Animal-rights activists claim an orca is being held in an "inadequate tank" in the Miami Seaquarium. They sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for excluding captive killer whales from listing under the Endangered Species Act. Read the rest of the article in the Courthouse News Service.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

The Ross Sea is the most productive stretch of water in the Southern Ocean, teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals, penguins and other animals that form the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. Sperm Whales prey on Toothfish and large squid and in February 2007, a 10-metre (32.8

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Reddit Animals

JANUARY 2, 2022

submitted by /u/trskablog [link] [comments].

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Full story posted on Global Animal and from the Huffington Post. Do whales deserve constitutional protection against slavery? On February 8, a federal judge said ‘no,’ stopping a historic case filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against SeaWorld for violating the 13th Amendment on slavery. On Wednesday, U.S.

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 26, 2022

submitted by /u/whibbler [link] [comments].

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Reddit Animals

JULY 28, 2022

submitted by /u/tinytiger763 [link] [comments].

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Whale Wars will air on Animal Planet in early 2009. I don't get animal planet, but hopefully I can find it on Pirate Bay or someplace after it airs.

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 12, 2021

submitted by /u/_BoofMaster_ [link] [comments].

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Critter News

MARCH 2, 2010

Sea World has hired him to defend the use of captive whales. PETA calls him an animal pimp "entertainer." Tags: Sea World captivity killer whales entertainment Orcas PETA. You can read some pretty strong words from PETA here.

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Reddit Animals

JULY 17, 2022

submitted by /u/thecarmenator [link] [comments].

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?

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Critter News

DECEMBER 6, 2010

We'd posted last week that the injuries would probably be fatal and they were. It appears that it was hit by boat propellers. Horrible.

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