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Scientists sound alarm after observing worrisome behavior shift in world's most isolated whale species: 'No area of the world's oceans is untouched'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-sound-alarm-observing-worrisome-004500164.html?guce_referrer=YW5kcm9pZC1hcHA6Ly9jb20uZ29vZ2xlLmFuZHJvaWQuZ29vZ2xlcXVpY2tzZWFyY2hib3gv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACn2xJZ6F_8G42zR0LCzAYCqutdxpE_WIk5EgW_xfXdnt46HNke40iyWgOcMz ^ | 21/7/24 | Mike Taylor

Posted on 07/25/2024 12:45:45 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

A recent study on beaked whales showed that even the reclusive giants are negatively affected by a host of anthropogenic activities.

What's happening? The paper, published in Royal Society Open Science in April, documented 14 human-caused threats to the cetaceans, which Phys.org dubbed "one of the least encountered mammals."

Climate change, including ocean acidification and marine heatwaves; plastic pollution; and whaling were among the dangers categorized as serious, intermediate, moderate, or unknown.

The study of "gray literature" was led by Laura Feyrer, a research scientist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Military sonar was listed as a serious threat to beaked whales, as it has caused fatal mass strandings in eight species across the globe, as Phys.org reported. Similarly classified risks include plastics, entanglement, and oil spills. The designation means at least one of the mammals has been killed by the threat.

"This pervasive reach of human influence, particularly plastics across a wildly large number of species, suggests that virtually no area of the world's oceans is untouched by human activity," Feyrer told Phys.org.

Watch now: These futuristic gas stations could completely change what it's like to own an EV "The situation with beaked whales can serve as a cautionary tale as it suggests that no species is immune to anthropogenic impacts, irrespective of their remoteness or rarity."

Why are threats to beaked whales important? The study stated these issues impact the migration, growth, reproduction, and survival of whales, dolphins, porpoises, and other marine animals and organisms.

Beaked whales, which encompass 24 species, per the study, live in every ocean on Earth. The Ziphiidae family is the second-largest after, but their deep-sea living has kept them isolated from humans. Phys.org listed their "remote habitats and cryptic biology" as well.

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KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; halp; oceans; whales
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Whales owe their continued existence to "dirty energy". With petroleum available in plentiful supply, it was no longer necessary to hunt whales. But never mind all that.

Whales is actin' funny. Lawsy! Haaaalp! We all gonna die!

1 posted on 07/25/2024 12:45:45 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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And that’s not even counting in the cocaine whales. Wait until they start capsizing boats and holding up liquor stores to feed their habit.


2 posted on 07/25/2024 12:59:07 AM PDT by Bernard (Government should be of laws, rather than of men.)
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I didn’t see much credit given to the concept of magnetic pole migration, which has been associated with other species’ migration changes.

Could it be that a non-manmade global event just isn’t as “cool” to discuss...Especially because there is NOTHING any government agency can do about it!!?


3 posted on 07/25/2024 1:12:28 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Eleutheria5

Connecticut scientist who killed husband with hammer found dead hours before sentencing: ‘Always in control of her own destiny’

https://nypost.com/2024/07/24/us-news/woman-who-killed-uconn-doctor-husband-found-dead-hours-before-sentencing/


4 posted on 07/25/2024 1:20:23 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Don’t worry. .gov will find a way to tax that!


5 posted on 07/25/2024 1:40:14 AM PDT by griswold3 ( Robespierre and Pol Pot were “unburdened by what has been” Harris the "Year Zero" candidate)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Wind farms and subsonics.


6 posted on 07/25/2024 1:58:45 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again . https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FU)
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https://www.npr.org/2024/07/24/nx-s1-5050451/breaching-whale-capsizes-boat
Whale capsizes boat off New Hampshire coast


7 posted on 07/25/2024 2:12:36 AM PDT by griswold3 ( Robespierre and Pol Pot were “unburdened by what has been” Harris the "Year Zero" candidate)
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To: Salamander
The noise from all of the container ships from and to China.

Also from all of the unnecessary oil tankers bringing oil from the Middle East because the dems won't let us use our own oil.

8 posted on 07/25/2024 2:23:55 AM PDT by Mogger (AreIn bookstores is a very expensive, beautifully bound in green leather Holy Koran. If one was goin)
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To: Salamander

What’s happening is scientifically explainable; When ego driven climate scientist go out on the ocean, their arrogance interacts with the ocean water creating particles called “Preens” and these Preens when they hit the water cause otherwise intelligent whales to become enraged. (hoping i don’t have to add</s>)


9 posted on 07/25/2024 2:35:24 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: Eleutheria5; Rennes Templar
14 human-caused threats to the cetaceans... Climate change...

So existentially, a whale of a tale.

10 posted on 07/25/2024 3:07:16 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

The volcanic activity at the ocean bottom is creating heat in the oceans. Let these nimrods go extinguish that! Sheesh!


11 posted on 07/25/2024 3:17:09 AM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: Eleutheria5

everyone has a gig and a life style they want to keep


12 posted on 07/25/2024 3:19:48 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Eleutheria5

50 years of people saying we are tracking the sharks because we need to know more about their mating and migration patterns.
If our idiot experts can’t figure it out in 50 years, maybe they should admit they are lying to us and inept.
Maybe a lil too obsessed with the shark week paydays. And mating of others.


13 posted on 07/25/2024 3:21:43 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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The accelerating magnetic pole shift is causing navigation problems animals including us.


14 posted on 07/25/2024 3:54:36 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: Eleutheria5

Whales were washing up all along the east coast and not one “save the whales” bumber sticker was seen.


15 posted on 07/25/2024 4:00:18 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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The knee-jerk reaction to attack and mock any environmental story on FR is sad. What you will start denying plastic pollution from SE Asia is being dumped in the ocean now? IMG-9810
16 posted on 07/25/2024 4:01:01 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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It’s cocaine.

Cocaine Contamination in Brazilian Sharks Raises Environmental and Health Concerns
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4253935/posts


17 posted on 07/25/2024 4:02:01 AM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: Eleutheria5

Aren’t wind farms deadly to whales?


18 posted on 07/25/2024 5:23:37 AM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Eleutheria5

The ocean solar windfalls give off sounds that are driving them insane and killing at least some of them. Really simple.


19 posted on 07/25/2024 5:23:55 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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More coffee, less spellcorrect! More proofreading!


20 posted on 07/25/2024 5:25:06 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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