Wild Things:
Life as We Know It
Whale of a comeback, dancing cockatoos, sticky bees, and waltzing pond scum
- By Amanda Bensen, Joseph Caputo, T.A. Frail, Laura Helmuth and Abigail Tucker
- Smithsonian magazine, July 2009
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Comeback Trail
Whalers killed tens of thousands of blue whales before their hunting was banned in 1966. Today, the largest animals on earth are showing encouraging signs of rebounding. Identifying individual blue whales in the Pacific Ocean since 1997, scientists from the Cascadia Research Collective and elsewhere found that the animals are once again migrating from California to British Columbia and Alaska.
Learn more about the blue whale at the Encyclopedia of Life.
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Comments (3)
I've sent Snowball dancing to my 2 greatgranddaughters and they loved him.
Posted by Elaine B on August 12,2009 | 11:32 PM
How can something be single-celled and made out of a colony of cells(multi-cellular)?
Posted by Ben on July 13,2009 | 10:14 AM
Everyone in our flock LOVES SNOWBALL!!
Posted by Chris on July 8,2009 | 05:47 PM