How will Humpbacks cope with the current El Niño causing a marine heatwave?
A record marine heatwave from 2014 to 2016 disrupted the food web humpbacks depend on. In the years that followed the North Pacific population dropped by about 20% between 2012 and 2021, roughly 7,000 whales. Researchers think many of them starved when their prey became scarce.
The photos show BCY1000 'Hydra' breaching.
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