A North Atlantic Right Whale
Mother
and Calf off the Coast of Florida
Photo credit:
FFWC/NOAA
Right Whale Sounds:
New
Brunswick
Florida's Endangered
Whales
Whales, a member of the
Cetacean Family,
are the largest mammals on
Earth,
and are quite similar to us Humans;
they are warm blooded, they give
live birth
and they nurse their young.
Whales swim in groups called pods
and
make the deep oceans their homes.
Each of these three Whales has
separate feeding
areas or grounds and birthing or
calving areas.
The Fin and The Humpback are both
Baleen whales, meaning without
teeth.
They eat in a process that allows
their food
to go into their mouths when they
swallow
or gulp huge amounts of
water,
trapping fish/food in a sort of
strainer system.
The Baleen, is a brushlike
filtration feature that
catches the fish/food when the
whale then
closes its mouth and expels
the water.
Florida has three Whales in
population trouble,
the Right, the Humpback and
the Fin Whales.
Of the three, the Right Whale
is the most critically
Endangered with numbers of only
about 350 remaining.
As with many other Endangered Sea Species,
mortality in Whales most frequently results from ship
collisions, fishing entanglements,
hunting, noise
pollution,
and raw waste dumped into the oceans
by
Cruise ships,
and the
U.S. Navy Ships, making the world's oceans
more resemble
one big garbage dump.
Whales communicate with each other
through a series
of sounds or songs, some long, some
short.
Each Whale has different sounds
for different situations,
which can normally travel many miles
underwater.
But a new problem that all Whales
share is interference noise
from ships and other human
activities in the Oceans.
Many tragedies have resulted from
what is said to be
the confusion resulting from these
outside noises.
The future of all Marine animals is
in our hands,
we have now invaded their
underwater world
and if we are not respectful of
their place there,
we may become the cause of their
elimination from it.
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