#whale abundance

The large-scale survey will assesses the abundance and habitat of whales, dolphins and seabirds in Hawaiʻi.

For years, it was commonly thought that humpback whales did not have a presence in the Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Monument, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. That changed in 2006, when scientists recorded a whale song remotely, but not much was known about abundance at the time A new paper reports an abundance of […]