🌍🦋 Across 6 continents, 21 sites & 15,000 paper moths, we joined a worldwide experiment led by @wlallen.bsky.social & Iliana Medina, showing how ecological context shapes the evolution of animal colouration.

Proud to be part of this global team effort: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Frontiers | A global review of operational fishery interactions with killer whales (Orcinus orca): dynamics, impacts, and management strategies

Wild map: all the places in the world where killer whales take fish from fishing activities, often right off hooks on lines

By @emmaluck22.bsky.social et al.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

🎉BREAKING: The High Seas Treaty has reached 60 ratifications — enough to enter into force!

This landmark agreement creates a pathway to help protect the high seas — waters beyond any one country’s authority that cover nearly half our planet. https://oceana.ly/3VqpI2Y

🐬 Dolphins & whales depend on sound to survive, but industrial noise is drowning them out 🔊

🐋 @whalesorg.bsky.social's new report 'Towards Quieter Seas' shows how noise pollution from industries like oil & gas disrupt vital behaviours

#EndOffshoreDrilling

👉 https://bit.ly/4nlxlUo

There is increasing interest in using AI tools not only to listen in on animal speech, but also to potentially talk back

go.nature.com/4mtVo2u

New research in #AusMammalogy compared the whiskers of wombats, finding that southern hairy-nosed wombats have longer, thicker whiskers.

Without a rhinarium, the study's authors suggest they may depend more on whiskers to navigate & interact.

www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM25025

@womsat.bsky.social

🌐🧪🦤 Considering prey availability has the exciting potential to improve marine conservation efforts, as evidenced in this case study modeling the habitat of critically endangered North Atlantic #RightWhales. #OceanScience #Maine #ProtectOurOceans #BluePlanet. bit.ly/esr_58_67

NEW RESEARCH
Application of spatially robust stereo-BRUV sampling for quantifying fish assemblages in UK marine protected areas

Watch the video to learn more, and find the paper here - esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@owenexeter.bsky.social @kristianmetcalfe.bsky.social
🦑🧪🌍🐟

New study by @exetermarine.bsky.social
@heriotwattuni.bsky.social
@zslofficial.bsky.social underscores the critical importance of Very Large Marine Protected Areas for safeguarding wide-ranging marine species. #MPAs
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

B.C. researchers can now determine a #whale’s sex from its wake vancouversun.com/news/how-bc-... via @vancouversun.bsky.social

Rising Heat, Rising Risks: Understanding the Nexus of Marine Heatwaves, Fishing Dependence, and Vulnerability to Coastal Communities

🔗 buff.ly/wrmWoS0

One in six species on Earth experienced extraordinarily high temperatures across more than 25% of their range in 2024--the hottest year on record. For most, this was the second year of extreme heat, likely compounding risks. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🐳 Collecting small skin samples from southern right whales to examine questions on genetics, diet, sex and age. With @robharcourt.bsky.social and @emma-carroll.bsky.social. 🔗 tohoravoyages.ac.nz/welcome-to-m... 🇦🇺 #southernrightwhale

"Bottom trawling is one of the most widely used, & most destructive, fishing practices in the world" 🎣

Yet it's allowed in most of our marine protected areas.

Check out this new BBC podcast for more info 🌊👇
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

Then TAKE ACTION 🪸🔽
only.one/act/uk-mpa-c...

By being large and fat, baleen whales can endure long periods with little or no prey 🌐🌏🧪🌱

We found that:
🐋 A southern right whale in average condition could survive up to 17 months without feeding.
🐋 But a severely entangled North Atlantic right whale may only last about 50 days.

🔗 to paper:

Our recent study in the #MarineEcologyProgressSeries
highlights how body size, condition, and human impacts shape the survival of right whales & why they are so vulnerable to prey limitation and disturbance 🐋

🔗 in thread

#Conservation #WhaleResearch #RightWhales #OceanHealth #MarineScience 🌐🌏🧪🌱

🔊 Paper alert! 🐬🎧
Noise of high-speed vessels 🚤 impairs the #biosonar ability of #harbourporpoises 🐬 - making it more difficult for them to
🤯 sense surroundings,
🧭 navigate and
🐟 hunt prey
within several hundred meters.
🥳Huge contribution to understanding masking effects!
🌐 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Check out this huge international initiative to enhance whale conservation: bluecorridors.org. 🐋 Such a great example of global collaboration towards an important goal. So excited to get to be part of this cool group of people! 🤗

x.com/WWF/status/1...

New paper alert!🚨Satellite tracking reveals southern right whales🐋feed in key high seas area, outside of existing protections. shorturl.at/2Vgst
Funders: @aucklanduni.bsky.social @royalsocietynz.bsky.social LiveOcean @docgovtnz.bsky.social IWC-SORP ASOC @Macquarie_Uni RaeFamilyFoundation

Giving a talk on Mirnong Southern Right #Whales @UWA Albany with @robharcourt.bsky.social and Kate Sprogis

www.tohoravoyages.ac.nz