🪸 #Marineresearch#Orca#dolphins#orca#duskydolphinswww.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
Orcas (Orcinus orca) are the top marine predators of the ocean, targeting multiple taxa including teleost fishes, elasmobranchs, seabirds, sea turtles, pinni...
🦑 #Marineresearch#shark DNA from shark fins in Singapore markets identified: "fins from 24 species across 16 genera, with 19 species listed on CITES Appendices II, and 16 listed as threatened on the IUCN Red List (critically endangered = 2, endangered = 4, vulnerable = 10)."
🦑 #Marineresearch#shark "Of these, four are listed on CITES Appendix II and four are listed as threatened on the IUCN Red List."
🦑 #marineresearch#shark Researchers in Singapore shopped for shark fins in January 2024, then extracted DNA to see which species the fins were from. In these 684 fins, the five most frequently identified species were Silky shark soupfin shark gray sharp nose scalloped hammerhead milk shark
🦑 #Marineresearch#orca#whales#salmonroyalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Highly social top marine predators, including many cetaceans, exhibit culturally learned ecological behaviours such as diet preference and foraging strategy that can affect their resilience to competi...
🦑 #Marineresearch#whaleshark#sharks paused in a "cleaning posture" & let other snorklers approach with equipment to do the diagnostic imaging
Ultrasound imaging can be used as an effective tool to measure the reproductive status and condition of sharks. This usually requires restraint of the subjec...
