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Snot Bot - Ocean Alliance

The Ocean Alliance has a Snotbot Kickstarter project. This is taking non-invasive research to the next level – to study whales without harassing them or harming them. Tens of thousands of whales are killed or injured every year as a direct or indirect result of human activities. The health of ocean ecosystems is tied directly to the health of whales. If…

Songs of Humpbacks

Thanks to FlowingData for highlighting this link by Albert Cairo to the article by David Rothenberg and  Mike Deal " Whale Song Explained". The largest single pressing of any album of recorded music was not made by Michael Jackson or Mariah Carey, but by an animal the size of a city bus. Ten million copies of Songs of the Humpback Whale were inserted into…

.@NOAA-led rescue team frees humpback whale from life-threatening entanglement in Hawaii http://t.co/7DWQF4iMVQ pic.twitter.com/ZwtHKigCTP — Sanctuaries (NOAA) (@sanctuaries) December 16, 2014

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