neaq: Aquarium researchers are in the news today with an interesting study on the effects of noise pollution on North Atlantic right whales. The fascinating data came in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Click through for details. If you click through and read this story you will learn several things. Evidence strongly suggests that noise from shipping traffic causes significant stress on North Atlantic right whales. There is a publication entitled Proceedings of Royal Society B. It took ten years after the data collection for this journal to publish the data. There are researchers whose job it is to routinely collect feces from North Atlantic right whales.
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Aquarium researchers are in the news today with an interesting study on the effects of noise pollution on North Atlantic right whales. The fascinating data came in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Click through for details.

If you click through and read this story you will learn several things.

  1. Evidence strongly suggests that noise from shipping traffic causes significant stress on North Atlantic right whales.
  2. There is a publication entitled Proceedings of Royal Society B.
  3. It took ten years after the data collection for this journal to publish the data.
  4. There are researchers whose job it is to routinely collect feces from North Atlantic right whales.
neaq: This right whale research photo of Porcia silhouetted against the sunset is one of the top  photographs from this year’s blog posts. See all ten here. Here’s a whale tale chaser for all that crap.
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This right whale research photo of Porcia silhouetted against the sunset is one of the top  photographs from this year’s blog posts. See all ten here.

Here’s a whale tale chaser for all that crap.

neaq: Can a turtle be anorexic?Not the way people are, but when they stop eating sea turtles can get dangerously thin. This rescued Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is at least 4 pounds underweight. Learn more about all the turtles being treated by the New England Aquarium’s Marine Animal Rescue Team here. The turtle may be anorexic, but he’s got great hair.
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Can a turtle be anorexic?
Not the way people are, but when they stop eating sea turtles can get dangerously thin. This rescued Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is at least 4 pounds underweight. Learn more about all the turtles being treated by the New England Aquarium’s Marine Animal Rescue Team here.

The turtle may be anorexic, but he’s got great hair.

neaq: Have you come to see the rays at The Trust Family Foundation Shark and Ray Touch Tank? This is a cownose ray getting right up close to the visitors. Learn more about this species here. Photo by Randy Brogen, LLC Cheese!
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Have you come to see the rays at The Trust Family Foundation Shark and Ray Touch Tank?

This is a cownose ray getting right up close to the visitors. Learn more about this species here.

Photo by Randy Brogen, LLC

Cheese!