Long-term analysis finds seagull attacks contribute to death of southern right whale calves
Thursday, June 8, 2023 - 11:33
in Biology & Nature
A small international team of marine scientists has found that a drop in southern right whale populations who spend part of their lives off the coast of Argentina, is due to attacks on calves by kelp gulls. In their study, reported in the journal Biology Letters, the group analyzed decades of photographs taken of the whales.