A Chinese supertrawler fishing for krill in the Southern Ocean in the presence of whales. A practice that not only represents direct competition for food for whales, penguins and seals, but can also lead to fatal ship strikes. Photo: Screenshot Sea Shepherd Global...
Determining the mutation rate of cetaceans is not an easy task, as it is difficult to locate and sample them. Photo: Julia Hager Before commercial whaling began, the number of humpback whales in the North Atlantic was apparently 86 percent lower than previously...
Krill is the most important food resource for whales in Antarctica and its availability determines whether female humpback whales become pregnant or not. Photo: Michael Wenger Antarctic krill is one of the most abundant species on our planet. However, its total...
Orcas in the Bering Strait. (Photo: Olga Filatova, WWF Russia) A joint report by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and scientific partner organizations on “whale highways” that act as major whale migration routes and their intersections with human economic...
Whales require large amounts of food in the form of krill or fish. Baleen whales, like this humpback, open their huge mouths and enclose a good portion of the shoal. They swallow only the prey, squeezing the water out through their baleen. Photo: Dr. Michael Wenger...