Scientists say humans are to blame. Entanglements with fishing gear, collisions with ships and climate change moving their food supply north are combining to stress and shrink these large whales, the study says.
"This isn’t about 'short' right whales, it's about a physical manifestation of a physiological problem, it’s the chest pain before the heart attack," said Regina Asmutis-Silvia, executive director of Whale and Dolphin Conservation North America, who wasn't part of the study."Ignoring it only leads to an inevitable tragedy, while recognizing and treating it can literally save a life, or in this case, an entire species.
The issue emerged from a research trip several years ago when Knowlton and others saw a few small whales and a dead one. They figured the small whales were calves, less than a year old, because of their size, but checking showed the whales actually were about two years old. Whale calves normally double in size in two years, said study lead author Joshua Stewart, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researcher.
Mankind is the only species to deserve extinction.
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always blame humans......
We ruin everything..
We are destroying the only planet we have !
We f everything up.
Humans to blame?!? How about Satan, he is associated with heating things up like hell!