The fin whale, under more threat in the Mediterranean than thought
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 26 July, 2012
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Until now it was thought that fin whales in the Strait of Gibraltar and the Alboran Sea made up part of the distribution of this species of whale in the Mediterranean. However, scientists have just discovered that their population has been overestimated by including specimens from the Atlantic that visit at certain times the western Mediterranean, where the noise generated by human activity affects their survival....