Fishing net may have caused whale’s death
JANJIRA PONGRAI
THE NATION
NECROPSY RESULTS have revealed that a rare Bryde’s whale might have died of shock from getting caught in a seine.
We didn’t see any blood in its heart. Also, some of its skin had been scraped off, probably because the net was tightened,” Nantarika Chansue of Chulalongkorn University’s Veterinary Medical Aquatic Animal Research Centre said yesterday.
Her centre conducted the autopsy in collaboration with the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources …
The Nation – July 4, 2014 at 01:00 am
www.nationmultimedia.com/natio…
**********
Whales as the Ocean’s Main Ecosystem Engineers
By Jenna Iacurci
Whales, though impressive mammals, until now were thought to be inconsequential in terms of their role in Earth’s oceans. But new research from the University of Vermont has revealed that these massive creatures make a huge difference, and in fact are the ocean’s main ecological engineers …
Nature World News – July 03, 2014 at 01:16 PM
www.natureworldnews.com/articl…
**********
Published by „the fellbeißer“© (July 03, 2014)
www.fellbeisser.net/news/
twitter.com/fellbeisser
