Recent Examples on the WebOther nations soon followed, and by the mid-20th century, industrial whalers from the United States, Japan, Russia and elsewhere had likely massacred 90 percent of the planet’s blue whale population.—Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024 Four whalers are set adrift after a violent storm sinks their ship.—Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024 My colleague Lila Seidman wrote a fascinating piece about new research that argues there are distinct species of orcas, and about an odd story from more than a century ago: how a San Francisco whaler in 1869 described two species of killer whales, only to have his work cast aside.—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024 More than 150 years ago, a San Francisco whaler noticed something about killer whales that scientists may be about to formally recognize — at least in name.—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024 New species like bronze whalers and sevengill sharks have moved into False Bay.—David Shiffman, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023 After years of challenging whalers, the activist group Sea Shepherd will spend this season tracking krill fishers.—Bill Weir, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024 They were mostly wiped out by diseases brought by the French in their warships and Americans and Europeans in their whalers.—Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024 Within 12 years, whalers stationed on the island had slaughtered 24,000 humpbacks.—Douglas Main, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
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