Like all marine mammals, the harbor porpoise is protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. NOAA Fisheries is working to conserve this species to...
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Toothed whales have developed specialized echolocation abilities that are crucial for their underwater activities. Acoustic fat bodies — the...
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Acoustic Harassment Devices (AHD) are widely used to deter marine mammals from aquaculture depredation, and from pile driving operations...
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Many man-made marine structures (MMS) will have to be decommissioned in the coming decades. While studies on the impacts of construction of MMS on marine...
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Living up to their names, killer whales have been killing other marine mammals but not eating them for decades, and scientists aren't sure...
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Scientists may have finally figured out why a population of orcas in the Salish Sea have been tossing porpoises around and taking them into...
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An orcas diet consists of Chinook salmon and can eat up to two dozen fish a day - so why is it that the killer whales like to bully...
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Porpoises "click" – marine scientists listen. This is how they will find out how many porpoises there are in the Skagerrak and where they...
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Predator–prey interactions in marine ecosystems are dynamically influenced by light, as demonstrated by diel vertical migrations of...
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This International Black Sea Action Day, 31st October, 11 habitats of Red-List Endangered Black Sea harbour porpoises and bottlenose...
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