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One is the resurgence of whale populations thanks to government action including the Endangered Species Act, as well as a cleaner habitat supported by air and water protections.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Because while New York offers bountiful food, it also hosts heavy maritime traffic, posing fresh threats to the whale population.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Grizzly bears are — were — omnivores, not picky eaters, and also lazy ones, noshing on berries, roots, acorns, beached whale carcasses and any laggardly young elk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

A young girl and her mother found a humpback whale stranded at Wathumba Creek in K'gari, Queensland, Australia.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Without warning, the whale jumped clean out of the water.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

But the scientists said that their findings do suggest that these "opportunistic" baleen whales appear to be adapting and might even be benefiting from the change.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

That is a sensitive issue in Greenland, a country where some whales are hunted.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

It is also a staple for whales, dolphins and seabirds.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Gotham is able to distinguish between the animals largely thanks to "fluke prints": whales have unique patterns on the underside of their tails, similar to human fingerprints, St. Lawrence explained.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Two more blue whales frolicked in the distance, keeping out of their way.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

Numbers of these 16-foot-long marine mammals, hunted for their oil, meat, and baleen, had fallen to an estimated low of 1,200 animals in the North Pacific—a heavily whaled region—by the 1960s.

From National Geographic ● Sep. 28, 2023

Today’s blue whales find themselves in a whaled and warming ocean.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 31, 2020

Facing Erin's 7,800-plus yards but massively wide fairways—60 yards in some cases—players whaled away with impunity when typical winds failed to blow.

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 4, 2018

Sock, whose nicknames are "J Sizzle" and "Showtime," whaled away on everything.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2014

The French never whaled in Canada; but the 'Bluenose' Nova Scotians did, and held their own against all comers.

From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by William Charles Henry Wood

This includes for the animals living in these "chemosynthetic" communities, whose numbers had been thought to have been drastically reduced by human whaling, she added.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Once it became clear that the survivors of the Mentor were American, the Ngarchelongese agreed to help them get home by building them a canoe to supplement their whaling boat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Even decades later, the legacy of whaling continues to shape whale populations, affecting not only how many whales exist today but also which males succeed in fathering calves.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2026

California’s gray whales have been considered an environmental success story since the passage of the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act and 1986’s global ban on commercial whaling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

They’d spent long days slogging through the snow, freezing nights in whatever rudimentary shelter they could assemble or in the deserted huts of whaling camps when they were lucky enough to come across them.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo