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Researchers report finding a stronghold for the Irrawaddy, one of the world's rarest freshwater dolphins, deep in the Bangladesh jungles. Scientists counted nearly 6,000 of the dolphins in the South Asian country's Sundarbans mangrove forest adjacent to the Bay of Bengal, the Wildlife Conservation Society said in a release. Before the find by the Wildlife Conservation Society there were only a few hundred of the Irrawaddy believed alive. This discovery gives us great hope that there is a...
Researchers say global warming is bringing food stocks closer to shore, causing the mass beaching of whales along Australia's coast, the AFP reported.Last week, nearly 90 long-finned pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins were beached along the Hamelin Bay on Australia's west coast in the last month.Experts say it took the total number of beached cetaceans in southern Australia beyond 500 in the past four months alone, including a single stranding of almost 200 on King Island.The strandings...
Whaleman Foundation spokesperson and real life Hero travels down under to oppose any whaling deals and call for 1 million signatures on her petition at SocialVibe.com. SYDNEY, March 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hayden Panettiere will be visiting Sydney, Australia on April 1 to rally support from Aussies, urging them to sign the "Save the Whales Again!" petition at SocialVibe.com and to oppose any negotiations that will legitimize commercial whaling and overturn the existing moratorium....
The world's first conference on marine protected areas for marine mammals MAUI, Hawaii, March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The conservation of the world's most iconic ocean species, whales and dolphins, is to take a step forward next week with the launch of the first conference on protected areas for marine mammals. Over 150 marine experts from 30 countries around the world will gather in Maui, Hawaii, on Monday 30th March to build plans for networks of protected areas, which will...
"Winter, The Dolphin that Could" Available Now! CLEARWATER, Fla., March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Clearwater Marine Aquarium (CMA) announces the release of its first-ever documentary. "Winter, The Dolphin that Could" recounts the true story of Winter, the tailless dolphin, who was not expected to survive after her tail was caught in a crab trap line and eventually fell off. The film takes viewers on an extraordinary journey through her rescue, fight to stay alive and extensive...
Competitive price/performance through innovative use of system memory combined with high-speed, low-latency interconnect system OSLO, Norway and MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Feb 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Dolphin ICS, a global provider of ultra low-latency, high-bandwidth computer interconnect solutions for application acceleration, today announced the addition of high-speed reflective memory to its Dolphin Express line of high-speed interconnect solutions. High-speed reflective memory is used in a range...
Dolphins are the foodies of the ocean, deemed so because of their specific and complicated measures to purge cuttlefish of ink and bone, Australian scientists announced on Friday.A female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin was seen prepping her cuttlefish for consumption in the Spencer Gulf, located in Australia."It's a sign of how well their brains are developed. It's a pretty clever way to get pure calamari without all the horrible bits," Mark Norman, the curator of mollusks at...
Residents of New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula said the government has mistakenly identified a dolphin that frequently visits the coast as a female. Locals said Moko, a dolphin that has long been visiting the Mahia coast, is consistently referred to as a female by the New Zealand Department of Conservation, but residents have known for months that the marine mammal is a male, The Dominion Post reported Tuesday. I noticed in the early stages that, when the dolphin was away from the crowds and a...
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the world's rare sex-selected zoological species, an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, was born Nov. 28 at SeaWorld San Diego. The birth further validates the park's ability to preferentially produce female or male offspring through the use of sperm sexing and artificial insemination technologies. The SeaWorld and Busch Gardens Reproductive Research Center is the only organization in the world to apply preferential sex-selection reproductive...
A new study of pygmy killer whales shows that those living off Hawaii tend to stay close to the islands and don't swim out to the open ocean, researchers said. One of the least understood marine mammal species, there are very few of the whales (probably less than 200 individuals) in this distinct pygmy killer whale population off the islands. The research published Tuesday in the journal Marine Mammal Science suggests the population's limited number makes it more vulnerable than other whale...
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Image Caption: Fossil of Feresa Attenuata, Shimonoseki Marine Science Museum KAIKYOUKAN, Japan. Credit: OpenCage/Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 2.5) The pygmy killer whale is widely distributed in tropical and sub-tropical waters worldwide. Regular sightings of this species occur off the coast of Hawaii and Japan, and also in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka and Lesser Antilles. In the Atlantic the pygmy killer whale has been seen off the coast of South Carolina and Senegal. This species swims in...
Image Caption: Peale's Dolphin, Near Ventisquero Pio XI, Feb 2006 en:Lagenorhynchus australis (taken at Ventisquero Pio XI, Chilean Patagonia). Credit: FDrummondH/Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) The black-chinned dolphin (Lagenorhynchus australis), also known as Peale's Dolphin or Peale's Black-chinned Dolphin, can be found near Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America. Within these waters, it prefers to reside in faster currents near channels or narrows, but can also be found in...
The Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis) can be found in the Gulf Stream of the North Atlantic Ocean, including the area between Florida and Bermuda and the Gulf of Mexico. Its eastern range may extend as far as the Azores and Canary Islands, although sightings in these areas have been uncommon. Its northern range begins at Cape Cod and extends to the southwestern portion of Spain. It is thought that the southern portion of its range extends from West Africa to Rio Grande do Sul in...
The Clymene dolphin (Stenella clymene) is a dolphin that is native to the Atlantic Ocean. It was once known as the short-snouted spinner dolphin. Although its range is not fully understood, specifically the southern portions, it does prefer tropical and temperate waters. Its range begins in New Jersey, stretching east-south-east to southern Morocco, and it is thought that the southern area of its range beings near Angola and stretches to Rio de Janeiro. It prefers habitats within deep water,...
The Ganges River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica) and Indus River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica minor) are two sub-species of freshwater or river dolphins found in India and Pakistan. From the 1970s they had commonly been regarded as separate species. The Ganges River Dolphin is primarily found in River Ganges and its tributaries in India while the Indus River Dolphin is found in the Indus river in Pakistan Taxonomy Until the 1970s the Indus and Ganges River Dolphins were...
