Shifts in Habitat Make North Atlantic Right Whales Harder to Track – and to Save from Extinction
Yards from Herring Cove Beach on a crisp day in late March, a young North Atlantic right whale grazes the surface of Cape Cod Bay’s crystal-blue waters.
As he glides, mouth agape, his fringelike baleen plates filter seawater so he can feast on small planktonic crustaceans called copepods.
“That’s what we call mowing the lawn,” says Daniel Palacios, program director of the Right Whale Ecology Program at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Mass...
To Read Full Story Login Below.