[CINC] More Gray Whale food for thought!

[Mr Zalophus]

Good Stuff, Paul !!  Many thanks
Bob

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:24 AM, paul jr petrich <ppetrich39 at me.com> wrote:

> Bob and Other Whale People, More Whale Food for thought!
> * At 2008 American Cetacean Society research gatherings in Monterey* , a
> special day was devoted to this title *"Gray Whales and Climate Change:
> Sentinels of the North Pacific. *"  Included were least three studies
> that verified suprisingingly opportunistic changes in Gray whale feeding
> habits.  See Sue Moore of the NOAA FS, National Marine Mammal Lab., Alaska
> FSC, and Applied Physics Lab, U. of Wash. From her abstract: "…*but in
> the eastern North Pacific evidence is emerging that gray whales are
> delaying their southbound migration, expanding their feeding range along
> the migration route and northward to Arctic waters, and evan remaining in
> polar waters over winter-all indications that North Pacific andArctic
> ecosystems are in transition."*
> *  **Also, see: "Seasonal Resident Gray Whales in the Pacific North West:
> Results from Collab Research Between 1999to 2007." by Calambokidis, J,
> A.Kliik, L. Schlender, J. Laake, M. Gosho. B. Gisborne, W.MeGill, V.Deeke,
> C. Tombach, C. Newell, J. Darling, W. Szaniszlo, D. Goley, and B.
> Witteveen.  Key findings from abstract: " Gray whales have been documented
> feeding through the spring, summer, and fall in a number of areas well
> south of their preliminary feeding grounds in Alaskan waters.* these
> studies documented locations  off the west coast of Vancouver Island and
> one area north of Pudget Sound. It concludes: " " *The variable locations
> and prey of these whales is a demonstration of the surprisingly versatility
> of gray whales, a species that was previously thought to be a highly
> specialized feeder with a very regimented migration."*
> * Also, see " The Beggar's Banquet: Gray Whale Predator-Prey Dynamics on
> the Outskirts." by Laura Joan Feyrer, Dave Daffus and Christina
> Tombach-Wright. Study by Whale Research Lab, Dept. of Geography.      Paul
> *
>  On May 15, 2012, at 7:31 AM, Michael Berg wrote,
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