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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Whale pee moves vital nutrients thousands of miles
'We often think of plants as the lungs of the planet. Animals are the circulatory system.’
Some new research found that great #whales—including right whales, gray whales, and humpbacks—transport roughly 4,000 tons of #nitrogen to low-nutrient coastal areas in the tropics and subtropics every single year. Described as the “great whale pee funnel.”
popsci.com/environment/whale-p

Popular Science · Whale pee moves vital nutrients thousands of miles'We often think of plants as the lungs of the planet. Animals are the circulatory system.’
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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

It was confirmed yesterday that Hvalur hf will not hunt fin whales this summer 💙

According to Kristján Loftsson, it’s because of the situation with the Japanese markets (no buyers) as well as the tariff race which is not improving the situation.

We celebrate these news and are happy to know that fin whales will not be hunted in Iceland for the second year in a row 🐋

~ Styngvi

#Styngvi #Iceland #SaveOurSeas #Whales 🐋

Delicate drawing of the eye of a whale in blue and purple tones Fin whales will swim freely around Iceland this summer by Styngvi art | activism
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Tio

What It’s REALLY Like on a Dolphin Research Expedition - videos.trom.tf/w/qAPES3ALtu17v…

Very well made video. I like when Mara narrates actually, it is quite easy to listen/follow. Plus maybe you can focus more on what you film, edit, the story?

Very interesting project. But I was also wondering how do they support the project? How did you guys join them? Did you pay? Did they train all of those other people for free?

@sober_pirate

PeerTubeWhat It’s REALLY Like on a Dolphin Research ExpeditionBy Be Brave To Act
#nature#research#volunteer
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Mongabay

Scientists have combined passive acoustic monitoring, machine-learning tools and aerial surveys to estimate the population of North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay.

Using the method, researchers from Cornell University in the U.S. were able to estimate the daily population of the whales over a period of four months.

By Abhishyant Kidangoor
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/coun

Mongabay Environmental News · Counting whales by eavesdropping on their chatter, with help from machine learningWhat better way to track whales than listening in on them? Passive acoustic monitoring, in which microphones are placed underwater to pick up any sounds, has long helped scientists detect the presence, or absence, of whales in oceans. More often than not, however, the method isn’t that great at estimating the population of whales. To […]
#News#Conservation#Environment
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Flipboard Science Desk

From @ScienceAlert: Baleen whales undertake some of the longest yearly migrations, with humpbacks travelling up to 8,300 km (about 5,150 miles) from Antarctica to warmer wintering grounds. With them, the whales shuttle resources from nutrient-rich polar regions to the less resourced warmer regions of the oceans. Amazingly enough, a huge amount of this nutrient distribution comes from whale urine, which disperses nitrogen and other elements through the ocean when nature inevitably calls.

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ScienceAlert · Whale Pee Transports Nutrients Across Thousands of Miles, Study RevealsGreat rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals.
#Science#Oceans#Whales
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Humpback #Whale Song Follows #ZipfsLaw, A Fundamental Law Of Human #Language
And some #whales exhibit Menzerath’s law even more strongly than humans.
#MenzerathsLaw and Zipf’s focus on this kind of streamlining. Menzerath’s is all about how longer words or vocalizations are more efficient if made up of shorter elements (like syllables or notes), while Zipf’s law states that common and shorter elements will be used more often in efficient language than longer, rarer ones.
iflscience.com/humpback-whale-

IFLScience · Humpback Whale Song Follows Zipf’s Law, A Fundamental Law Of Human LanguageBy Rachael Funnell
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

#Whales move nutrients from Alaska to Hawaii in their urine, supporting tropical ecosystems phys.org/news/2025-03-whales-n

Migrating #BaleenWhales transport high-latitude nutrients to tropical and subtropical ecosystems nature.com/articles/s41467-025

"in oceans across the globe, great whales—including #RightWhales, #GrayWhales, and #humpbacks—transport about 4,000 tons of nitrogen each year to low-nutrient coastal areas in the tropics and subtropics. They also bring more than 45,000 tons of biomass"

Humpback whale mother and calf, photo from above
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