Paper alert: southern right whale - tohorā food+microbiome study led by Aashi Parikh:
Poo DNA from NZ🇳🇿 Aus🦘South Africa🇿🇦 calving grounds + 🇿🇦 feeding ground
🐳 eat LOTS: Decapoda (incl. 🦀 🦞-larval/small ones probably), Copepods, krill
Microbiome 🦠links to diet
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Giving a talk on Mirnong Southern Right #Whales @UWA Albany with @robharcourt.bsky.social and Kate Sprogis
www.tohoravoyages.ac.nz
southern right #whales in #NZ & #Australia are a conservation success story
& our new paper shows their offshore feeding grounds
if the #highseastreaty #bbnj is ratified we can protect that, plus sharks, seabirds and other marine predators:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New paper showing stalled recovery of Australian southern right whale from whaling using amazing long term dataset
#whale #science #climatechange
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
New theme issue in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B @royalsocietypublishing.org:
Animal culture: conservation in a changing world
Edited by @pbrakes.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten and @ellengarland.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
🧪 Great work on Hector’s & Māui genomes with @laninsky.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social
phys.org/news/2025-07...
Bonus #whaleontology #fossilfriday: Introducing the new right whale Megabalaena sapporoensis from the upper Miocene of Japan! About 12-13 meters long - at the small end of extant right whales (Eubalaena). Described by my NZ office mate Yoshi Tanaka et al. palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...
Ever wondered why seals don't drown? New groundbreaking research from @smruecophys.bsky.social led by @chrismcknight.bsky.social published in @science.org reveals that, unlike other mammals, seals can sense blood oxygen levels.
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
phys.org/news/2025-05...
Unravelling some of the complexity of animal cultures & conservation with @lucymaplin.bsky.social,
@emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten, @ellengarland.bsky.social & contributors to our theme issue
doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @royalsocietypublishing.org
