Imperiled whales respond to environmental changes
A few "canaries" are 50 feet long, weigh 70 tons, and are not even close to a coal mine. In any case, the highly endangered North Atlantic right whale is sending a similar sort of message about disruptive change in the environment by quickly modifying its utilization of significant habitat zones of the New England coast. These discoveries are contained in a new study published in Global Change Biology by researchers at the Center for Conservation Bioacoustics (once in the past the Bioacoustics Research Program) at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and at Syracuse University. It's the longest-running published investigation to continuously monitor the presence of any whale species at one area utilizing sound."
"The change in right whale presence in Massachusetts Bay over the six years of ...