Bowheads really feel the impacts of economic whaling 100 years later
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Industrial whaling of bowheads ended a couple of century in the past, however the trade’s footprint may threaten the species’ future.
Earlier than folks sought their blubber for oil and their baleen for instruments and garments, bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) flourished. This was regardless of drastic historic local weather change, together with a heat interval between round 8500 and 10,000 years in the past. However whaling lowered world bowhead numbers to as little as 3000 people by the early twentieth century. The US, Canada and Norway have since…
