The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

Chapter 18: Right whale page 270: Balaenidae .   The evolution of baleen whales may be linked to the freezing of Antarctica from abou...

In Beautiful Whale , [Bryant] Austin describes an encounter with Ella, a curious minke whale off the coast of Australia. He  was taking ...

Twenty-seventh in a series of notes and comments on The Book of Barely Imagined Beings Chapter 18: Right whale page 268: epigraph...

Humans, pilot whales and killer whales are the only known species [besides humans] in which females have a prolonged period of menopause ...

The [method] that is now mostly used is a technique in the Antarctic that uses sonar. Not, however, to look at the whale underneath the wate...

This poster envisions Marine Protected Areas that would be necessary if we were to start to be serious about protecting whales, dolphins and...

Somehow the more we learn about whales, the more we’re coming to appreciate the sublimely discomfiting reality that a kind of parallel “us” ...

Will there come a point when the recovery of [Blue whales] butts up against the needs (for krill, for instance) of the world’s cresting hu...

How to keep species alive that seem overwhelmingly threatened with extinction? I've yet to see the remarks made last night by Richard Le...

Last year, probably for the first time since the 1600s, not one North Atlantic right whale died at human hands. -- from The Fall and Rise o...

Knowing (more or less) what happened next, Maiacetus looks 'transitionary'. But there is something to be said for trying to imagin...

It's reported that the Wilkins Ice Shelf is on the brink of collapse and a paper in Nature [1] offers clear evidence that Antactica is...

Martha Nussbaum thinks about animals in conversation with Alan Saunders ( transcript ). Weighted balls that simulate struggling prey for ti...

Helping to plan an arts and environment event for next June, I came across this anecdote in a report about a climate/theatre event organised...

Faroe islanders told to stop eating 'toxic' whales P.S. 5 Dec: The Icelanders and the Japanese are not put off, though.

[Environmental] groups say that "the sonar can be as loud as 2,000 jet engines, causing marine mammals to suffer lasting physical traum...

Sperm whales may take as much pleasure in singing well-timed duets as humans do. New underwater recordings have shown that the whales carefu...

[ Peter Brewer and colleagues] calculated how much [the drop in ocean pH by 0.12 during the 20th century] would affect the absorption of so...

Richard Black reports a peaceful outcome to the meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Santiago de Chile, at least compared to ...

A whale/clarinet 'duet' according to David Rothenberg in a BBC interview . New Scientist article here and video here . A report i...