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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: dolphin

dolphin stories: 10 news summaries

(Newser) - The Japanese town that triggered a furor after a documentary highlighted its dolphin slaughter is granting a reprieve to 100 of the animals, reports AP. Some 50 dolphins will be sold to aquariums, and the remainder of the 100 trapped for yesterday's first hunt of the season will be released... More »

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Japan • dolphin • Ric O'Barry • dolphins • Flipper • Taiji • The Cove

(Newser) - Moko, the famously friendly dolphin who hangs around the beach in Mahia, New Zealand, nearly accidentally killed a woman yesterday, the Gisborne Herald reports. The woman had been playing with the dolphin, and it refused to let her return to shore. "When I wanted to go back in,... More »

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New Zealand • animal attack • dolphin • Moko • North Island

 Aussies Can't Save 
 87 Stranded Whales 

But rescuers are ultimately able to save only four

Mar 25, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rescue crews saved four long-finned pilot whales after a mass stranding in Western Australia’s Hamelin Bay, but scores of others died, the West Australian reports. Eighty-seven whales and dolphins beached Monday, prompting more than 250 volunteers and 100 conservation workers to spend a near-freezing night on the beach nursing... More »

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Australia • rescue • dolphin • animal rescue groups • stranded • dolphins • whales

 Aussies Herd 
 Beached Whales 
 Back to Sea 

194 animals beached; dozens returned to water

Mar 2, 09 7:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Rescuers using boats, stretchers, and a jet ski hauled dozens of whales and dolphins back to sea after 200 were beached on an Australian island, the Daily Telegraph reports. Some 59 animals were saved, ABC notes, as rescuers dug trenches and draped cloths over the whales to keep them cool... More »

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Australia • whale • Tasmania • rescue • dolphin

 Humpbacks
 No Longer in Danger

Spectacular success for conservation

Aug 12, 08 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Humpback whales, once feared to be on the verge of extinction, have made such a dramatic comeback that the International Union for Conservation of Nature has removed them from its list of vulnerable species. A ban on humpback whaling in the 1960s has allowed their numbers to grow to 55,... More »

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conservation • humpback whale • dolphin • whaling • International Union for Conservation of Nature • cetaceans • porpoise

As Currency, Dolphin Teeth Feel Recession's Bite

In South Pacific, Solomon Islands putting more stock in ancient trading chip

Apr 30, 08 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Spinner dolphins had better watch out—their pearly whites are again a fast-growing currency in the South Pacific, the Wall Street Journal reports. Economic troubles in the Solomon Islands have caused many to return to the traditional trading chip. “Dolphin teeth are like gold,” says the governor of... More »

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Solomon Islands • currency • dolphin • animal

Japanese Dolphin Cuisine: Cruelty or Culture?

Activists have no right to decry slaughter of Flipper's brethren, locals say

Feb 12, 08 10:35 AM CST
(Newser) - One activist calls the Japanese city of Taiji "ground zero for the largest slaughter of dolphins on planet Earth," but locals want him and his cohorts to mind their own business. Residents of Taiji have been eating dolphin meat for hundreds of years and say they have as... More »

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Japan • dolphin • mercury • Ric O'Barry

SEALs to Get Swimming Gizmo

New device will help fighters swim up to 150% faster and arrive less tired

Oct 8, 07 6:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Navy SEALs will be swimming to their targets up to 150% faster when they get a new Pentagon gizmo called a PowerSwim. It looks like a mini-glider that attaches to a diver's legs, Popular Mechanics reports. SEALs reportedly take about 2 hours to master it; they have to learn a... More »

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Pentagon • penguin • dolphin • DARPA • PowerSwim • glutes • quads • Navy SEALs

Feared Extinct, Dolphin Resurfaces

Rare mammal reportedly appears
in the Yangtze

Aug 29, 07 3:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - A member of a dolphin species so rare that it was reported possibly extinct may have been spotted in the Yangtze River. The baiji, or white flag dolphin, was declared extinct last December, but earlier this month a man shot a video showing what appears to be a baiji frolicking... More »

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China • extinction • dolphin • baiji • Yangtze River • white flag dolphin

River Dolphin Declared Extinct

Scientists failed to find species in expedition

Aug 8, 07 5:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Calling it a "shocking tragedy," a team of marine scientists have declared the Yangtze river dolphin "likely extinct" after their failure to find a single animal in a recent research expedition. The scientists blamed massive over fishing along the Yangtze as the primary cause of the species'... More »

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China • Yangtze • dolphin • species • extinct • river dolphin • river • animal

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