A total of 429 volunteers gathered data from the shores of Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Molokaʻi and Hawai‘i islands during the Hawaiian ...
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a necropsy revealed the whale may have suffered a ship ...
Over 400 volunteers for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary and the Pacific Whale Foundation ...
Over 12,000 humpback whales migrate every winter from the frigid surroundings of Alaska into the waters of Hawaii.
On the islands of Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Molokaʻi and Hawai‘i, volunteers collected data from 30 sites. A total of 183 whales were ...
These animals don’t frequently wash up on Huntington Beach’s shores. Agencies are looking into the cause of death of the ...
Recent declines in North Pacific humpback whale reproduction and survival of calves highlight an urgent need to understand how mother-calf pairs expend energy across their migratory cycle.
The current population has rebounded to nearly 80,000 humpback whales, up from a low point of 10,000 to 15,000. Commercial whaling reduced North Pacific’s humpback whale numbers to a few ...
“Our humpback whale health database, comprising 11,000 measurements of 8,500 individual whales in the North Pacific, is being used across several projects within the Marine Mammal Research ...
Most male humpback whales in a Pacific Ocean population do not have offspring — and bad singing might be to blame, new research reveals. Scientists recently conducted a paternity analysis of a ...
Similar patterns of paternity have been documented in other humpback populations in the Pacific as well as in other baleen whale species, including North Atlantic right whales. In addition to ...