A bowhead whale mother and calf in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Bowhead whales were heavily affected by commercial whaling. Photo: Caila Kucheravy, CC BY-NC This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
A humpback whale surfaces near two trawlers. All are pursuing Antarctic krill. Youenn Kerdavid/Sea Shepherd Global, CC BY-ND By Matthew Savoca, Stanford University The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales –...
