Sentence examples for surviving whales from inspiring English sources

Many of the surviving whales were described as thin and weak.

Kimberly Muncaster, chief executive of the Project Jonah whale group, said the surviving whales were in "fairly poor condition".

Volunteers are making a fresh attempt to rescue 15 surviving whales, after previous efforts to re-float them failed.

Media captionThe 15 surviving whales are reported to be in a "poor condition" Fifty-eight pilot whales have died after becoming stranded on a coast in northern New Zealand, conservation officials say.

Police and other rescue workers had hosed down the surviving whales at Noordhoek Beach to try to keep them alive.

The death Monday leaves the amusement park chain with only one proven breeding male among its 12 surviving whales, dealing a blow to the breeding program it hopes will supply killer whales for shows at the park.

When they're too ill or too injured to survive, whales sometimes seem to strand themselves intentionally on our shores.

The California, or eastern, gray whale, one of two surviving populations of gray whale, can be traced back about 150,000-200,000 years.

"We propose that gray whales survived the disappearance of their primary feeding ground by employing generalist filter-feeding modes, similar to the resident gray whales found between northern Washington State and Vancouver Island," the scientists wrote in their paper.

Gray whales survived many cycles of global cooling and warming over the past few million years, likely by exploiting a more varied diet than they do today, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, and Smithsonian Institution paleontologists.

Eastern North Pacific right whales have been found feeding in a new area of the Bering Sea, giving scientists hope of finding ways to help the endangered whales survive.