Three years of monitoring of Oregon’s gray whales shows changes in health

Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 09:40 in Biology & Nature

Three years of “health check-ups” on Oregon’s summer resident gray whales shows a compelling relationship between whales’ overall body condition and changing ocean conditions that likely limited availability of prey for the mammals, a new study from Oregon State University indicates. Researchers from the Geospatial Ecology of Marine Megafauna Laboratory at OSU’s Marine Mammal Institute used drones […]

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