Search results
2 days ago · Save story. 08/10/2024. Initial suspicions that the famous beluga whale Hvaldimir had been shot dead have been ruled out after a post-mortem carried out by the Norwegian Veterinary Institute concluded that probable cause of death was, instead, bacterial infection. Hvaldimir, a local celebrity that since his discovery in 2019 became the focus of ...
5 days ago · The 4.2-meter (14-foot) long and 1,225-kilogram (2,700-pound) whale was first spotted by fishermen not far from the Arctic town of Hammerfest.
5 days ago · The white beluga whale captured global attention in 2019, when he approached Norwegian fishermen while strapped in a harness that read, “Equipment St. Petersburg.”
1 day ago · A new study predicts that collisions between whale sharks and ships could increase by 15,000 times by 2100. ... Published on 09/10/2024 - 7:04 GMT+2 ... where marine animals are struck and injured ...
4 days ago · PressReader. Catalog; For You; Santa Fe New Mexican. Necropsy: No gunshot in alleged Russian spy whale 2024-10-06 - By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff . Hvaldimir, suspected of being Russian a spy whale that was shot to death in August, probably died of a bacterial infection, according to Norwegian police and a necropsy of the dead beluga, a finding local animal rights groups quickly questioned.
5 days ago · The beluga whale known as Hvaldimir, which was found dead in Norway in August, reportedly died from a bacterial infection rather than from gunshot wounds, according to Norwegian police. The probable cause of the infection was identified as a wound in the whale’s mouth caused by a stick lodged inside. Hvaldimir, measuring 14 feet long and ...
1 day ago · In contrast to the demersal fish example, seabirds are killed by the thousands by wind turbines (Fox et al. 2006, Newton 2008), with some seabirds showing strong avoidance of OWFs (Welcker and Nehls 2016, Fox and Petersen 2019). Seabirds can facilitate foraging efficiency of other subsurface predators such as dolphins and tunas (Goyert et al ...
