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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Whales is actin' funny. Lawsy! Haaaalp! We all gonna die!
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.
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!!?
Connecticut scientist who killed husband with hammer found dead hours before sentencing: ‘Always in control of her own destiny’
Don’t worry. .gov will find a way to tax that!
Wind farms and subsonics.
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/24/nx-s1-5050451/breaching-whale-capsizes-boat
Whale capsizes boat off New Hampshire coast
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.
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>)
So existentially, a whale of a tale.
The volcanic activity at the ocean bottom is creating heat in the oceans. Let these nimrods go extinguish that! Sheesh!
everyone has a gig and a life style they want to keep
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.
The accelerating magnetic pole shift is causing navigation problems animals including us.
Whales were washing up all along the east coast and not one “save the whales” bumber sticker was seen.
It’s cocaine.
Cocaine Contamination in Brazilian Sharks Raises Environmental and Health Concerns
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4253935/posts
Aren’t wind farms deadly to whales?
The ocean solar windfalls give off sounds that are driving them insane and killing at least some of them. Really simple.
More coffee, less spellcorrect! More proofreading!
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