Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...
How a whale fall — a feast on a dying mammal descending to the ocean floor — explains the Chips Act.
“Beyond urine, whale carcasses also serve as nutrient deposits. When a whale dies, its massive body sinks to the ocean floor, ...
Whales transport vital nutrients from urine, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin across ... dead bodies and poo at the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary.
Whales transport vital nutrients from urine, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin across oceans that ... dead bodies and poo at the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. They ...