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Navy Dolphin
A trained Navy dolphin assumes a voluntary right lateral present in the water and...
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Vaquitas at the Water's Surface
Governments and environmental organizations continue to monitor the vaquita...
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Vaquita Refuge
Eliminating gillnets is key to protecting the vaquita from extinction. This map...
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Vaquitas as Bycatch
Gillnets used to catch totoaba accidentally catch vaquitas too. The vaquita’s...
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A Population in Decline
At the current rate of population decline, the vaquita may be extinct in a few...
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A Small Range
Vaquitas live in an area smaller than ¼ the size of metropolitan Los Angeles....
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Vaquitas in Peril
The Vaquita is a small, elusive, and critically endangered marine mammal that lives...
Tue, 07/14/2020 - 15:23

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Mysterious Vaquitas
Vaquitas were so rarely seen that some people thought they were a myth. Vaquitas...
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Swimming Vaquita
Vaquitas were unknown to science until three skulls were found on a Mexican beach...
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Citizens of the High Seas
In a world where land is partitioned into countries with defined borders, the ocean...
August 2019

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Hope & Despair for the North Atlantic Right Whale Population
Late one afternoon in February 2019, Melanie White and the other members of a...
May 2019

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A Century of Whales at the Smithsonian
Whales have been at the heart of Smithsonian research since 1850, when Spencer...
April 2019