Troubled Whales

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Karlee A. Brazo EDU 290
Troubled Whales
Information gathered from
http//story.news.yahoo.com/
http//story.news.yahoo.com
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Numbers Declining

• Killer Whales
• 20 from 1996-2001
• Should be on endangered species list

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Other Animal decreases

• Seals
• Sea Lions
• Sea Otters
• Great Whales

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Where?

• North Pacific
• Alaska
• Oregon
• Washington

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The Puget Sound Orca

• Dont reproduce with any other group of whales

• Some migrate

• Taxonomists in no hurry

• To determine more killer whale species

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International Whaling Commission

• Between 1949 and 1969
• Japanese and Russian took 62,858 whales

• 200 Miles of the Aleutian Islands
• Northern Gulf of Alaska

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Killer Whales

• Big consumers
• 243,000 Calories a day

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Two Ways for Changing Eating Habits

• 3,900 whales to make small shift
• Only a few to totally shift

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Interesting Facts

• Gray whale and humpback populations have
  recovered
• Great Whales remain 14 less

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