
Hidden DNA found in blue whales reveals they've been mating …
2024年2月5日 · Blue whales in the Atlantic Ocean are harboring a previously unknown and potentially alarming level of hybrid DNA, a new study shows. The findings hint that whale …
Animal Sex: How Blue Whales Do It - Live Science
2013年7月24日 · Unlike other baleen whales, or those whales that use so-called baleen plates to filter tiny bits of food from seawater, blue whales typically travel alone. But in late July and …
Blue Whales in the North Atlantic Found To Engage Regularly in ...
2024年2月12日 · Recent findings indicate increased interspecies mating between North Atlantic blue whales and fin whales, unveiling higher-than-expected hybrid DNA levels and enhanced …
Unusually high levels of fin whale DNA found in blue whale …
Thanks to hybridisation between fin and blue whales, and a phenomenon called introgression, blue whales in the North Atlantic have surprising levels of fin whale DNA. An examination of …
Finally seen: a rare sighting of Antarctic blue whale cow–calf pair …
2022年10月22日 · The pair was identified as Antarctic blue whales due to observer-noted smoothly tapered “torpedo-shaped” body form typical of Antarctic blue whales and not the …
Surprise Discovery Shows Blue Whales Have Been Mating With …
New research suggests interspecies hanky panky between blue and fin whales is more common than we thought, at least in certain parts of the world. Genome sequencing of North Atlantic …
Blue whales and fin whales have been 'hybridising' - The Naked Scientists
2024年2月27日 · The ancestors have been separated for at least probably 8 million years. But we're detecting about a leakage of DNA from fin whale to blue whale of about 3-3.5%. So …
Visual and passive acoustic observations of blue whale trios …
2019年9月3日 · By comparing blue whale acoustic and surface behavior during three independent blue whale encounters, we explored the similarities in display behavior, focusing on …
Was that an interaction between Fin and Blue whales?!?!?
2019年5月3日 · But the most interesting thing was the last mixed group of Fin and Blue whales that we encountered: three Fin Whales and a Blue Whale were fast chasing a Blue Whale …
Blue Whale Pair and Humpback Whales - YouTube
A pair of Blue Whales along with Humpback Whales we watched on November 15, 2019. The Blue Whales were long divers and would surface a long way away. We even...