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Ocean your eyes

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Mostly sourced Cetacean media, drizzled with all things aquatic.
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Reblogged sixth-extinction
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The vaquita (Phocoena sinus) is a species of porpoise endemic to the northen end of the Gulf of California. They are the smallest living cetacean. It is extremely endangerf as it is estimated than there are as few as around 10 left. They are exposed to alteration and pollution of their habitat, but mostly their decline is because of bycatch in nets set out for Totoaba fishing.

The Totoaba or Totuava (Totoaba macdonaldi) is a marine fish endemic to the Gulf of California. Once abundant it is now classed as Vulnerable by the IUCN due to human threats and illegal fishing.

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This was the last of the sketches prepared during the Vulnerable Animals Week 2023 and finally reaching completion, the prompt for the day was free and I decided to depict these two species as their conservation is strongly intertwined and the vaquita may become extinct or functionally so within the next years, the small amount of individuals left making the estabilshment of a future healthy population very difficult.

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Southern Right Whale Dolphin (Lissodelphis peronii), family Delphinidae, Strait of Magellan, Chile

photographs by Pablo Cáceres

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Reblogged dimetrodone
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Various animal studies! The yotes & sharks are from '24, but the cetaceans are super recent. Mostly Delphinidae, but there's a baiji and a bottlenose whale in there! The singular image at the bottom is a rough-toothed dolphin!

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Grey seals, minke whales and bluefin tuna: is the North Sea bouncing back to its glory days?
Hollywood stars once came for the big-game fishing, but the return of a host of species to the depleted waters around Britain’s coast is a c
the Guardian

From the article:

“The North Sea is one of the most pressured areas of ocean on planet Earth. There are relatively few other places that have a combination of industrialised countries around a largely enclosed sea, intensive agriculture, and pressures from fishing going back centuries. But the wonderful thing about nature is that it can recover pretty quickly if you give it the chance,” says Juniper. Bottlenose dolphins, along with humpback and minke whales, have been spotted in greater numbers in recent years along England’s North Sea coast, monitoring groups say. Their reasons for returning are not entirely clear. Grey seals – once in danger of disappearing around the UK – are flourishing. Visits to colonies on Norfolk beaches – where thousands of pups are born every year – have become a Christmas ritual for local people. Around the beach at Horsey, nearly 4,000 seal pups were born last year during a record-breaking season. “We know the grey seals are doing well, which is fantastic news, and we know that’s also true of other species in the North Sea,” says Bex Lynam, marine advocacy manager for North Sea Wildlife Trusts. “Bottlenose dolphins – which we weren’t seeing off the Yorkshire coast until the last five years – have been recorded in a huge number of sightings. It’s clear they have enough food. They are also calving down here, which is fantastic,” she says.
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